How to Use rescission in a Sentence

rescission

noun
  • If that is true, the rescission saves no money and is pure theater.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
  • For all these reasons, the rescission of Title 42 cannot come soon enough.
    Raul A. Reyes, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Trump has not yet sent a rescission request to Congress.
    Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Those questions arise with the news that the Senate won’t take up a $15 billion spending rescissions bill that the House passed last week.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • The attorneys general ask the court to rule that the time to ratify the ERA has expired and that the five states’ rescissions are valid.
    al, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Politico was the first to report on Thursday that the rescission package would not move forward.
    Reuters, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • About half the package is a rescission to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • But the Supreme Court held that the rescission of treaties is left to the political process and not for judicial involvement.
    Erwin Chemerinsky, Orange County Register, 8 June 2017
  • In this light, the rescission of the Monument Butte project’s approval is hardly a speed bump in the basin’s output of hydrocarbons.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This kind of polling empowered a political backlash to the rescission of the Obama-era memo.
    German Lopez, Vox, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Burr's vote against the rescissions package is an early sign of a political tussle that may lie ahead.
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • The letters tie back to the other tool the administration is using: rescission.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • Cole, who has been working with Mulvaney on the spending cut attempt, said he had been told to expect two or three rescission requests over the coming months.
    John Fitzpatrick, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2018
  • The feds are portraying the wind rescission as no big deal since other offshore zones between New York and New Jersey are still under review.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Trump's rescission would reduce the contingency fund to about $500 million.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
  • Analysts have highlighted that the unexpected rescission charges didn’t put too much of a dent in the bank’s CET1 ratio, a measure of the capital strength.
    Sam Potter, Bloomberg.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Even minor mistakes could cause the company to revoke the policy, a practice called rescission.
    Liz Weston, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Also on the docket in the Senate -- and likely to take more floor time -- is a vote on legislation to cancel unspent funds from the prior year, also known as a rescission package.
    Ashley Killough, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • Democrats will do that again in September no matter what Republicans do on rescissions.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • Even if Treasury could rescind Revenue Ruling 85-13, could that rescission be retroactive?
    David Herzig, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The process, known as a rescission request, would temporarily freeze certain funds highlighted by the president for 45 days.
    Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Williamson’s attorneys would also like to add a claim for fraudulent inducement and rescission.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But there’s a reason that all of the data on this practice of rescission (which insurance companies claimed was fraud prevention) predate 2010.
    Mona Charen, National Review, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The White House official said the president never agreed to support the rescission of funds from pandemic relief packages, or to a $1 trillion package.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
  • The lawsuit was already on schedule for an initial decision on a separate request to stop the rescission of Title 42 before May 23.
    al, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In coming days, the White House is expected to send a proposal to Congress for returning billions of dollars of unspent foreign aid funds to the Treasury in a process known as rescission.
    John Hudson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • As time goes on and people forget about the rescission of offers, hiring managers may believe there were other factors that caused her not to be onboarded at Coinbase.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • The vast majority feel that the recession will be difficult, with only around 34% believing the upcoming rescission will be brief and not too painful.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Drivers were sent a notice of rescission to the last address on their driver’s license, but Glahn cautioned that some licenses may have expired during the suspensions.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 26 June 2020
  • Many states, for example, have a right of rescission in timeshare sales, and a cooling-off period is built into many annuity purchases.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 2 Aug. 2023

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