revoke - use in sentences

Object

  • authorisation: The trustees may need to decide whether they should provide further directions to the agent or revoke the authorisation.
  • privilege: You cannot revoke privileges for a single member of the group.
  • certificate: Section 226 sets out the power of the Scottish Ministers to revoke a certificate granted under section 224.
  • patent: The hearing officer had, therefore, been right to revoke the patent.

Preposition: on

  • ground: Your Trial will be revoked on the grounds that you're a smarmy Git!

Subject

  • principal: It remains in effect until it is revoked by the Principal, or until the Principal becomes mentally incompetent or dies.
  • court: A " Springing " Power of Attorney remains in effect until the Principal's death, or until revoked by a court.
  • order: An Order may also be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order.

Modifying Another Word

  • hereby: The previous Standing Order 22 made on 9 July is hereby revoked.
  • accordingly: If during this period any license or certificate under the current legislation is revoked then the new certificate must be amended or revoked accordingly.
  • automatically: Equally, they can be revoked automatically, by time limitation, or manually from the system.
  • subsequently: The order was subsequently revoked but it is included here for sake of completeness.
  • formally: The designation order remains in force unless or until formally revoked by the Secretary of State.
  • immediately: On this basis alone, the zoo's license should be revoked immediately.

Used with why or when

  • when: I wonder how many couples realize that their wills are automatically revoked when they register.

Preposition: with

  • effect: All general exemptions to display or sell diurnal birds of prey were revoked with effect from 31 March 1998.

Preposition: by

  • principal: It remains in effect until it is revoked by the Principal, or until the Principal becomes mentally incompetent or dies.
  • court: A " Springing " Power of Attorney remains in effect until the Principal's death, or until revoked by a court.

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