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  • noun Plural form of removal.

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Examples

  • The mandate authorized short-term removals and long-term response actions and plans.

    Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), United States 2008

  • The mandate authorized short-term removals and long-term response actions and plans.

    Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, United States 2007

  • There are two types of governmental response: (1) short-term removals, where emergency action is required (for example, to avert fire or explosion, or to prevent the imminent contamination of a water body); and (2) long-term remedial actions taken at sites on the National Priority List.

    Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, United States 2007

  • Beginning in the winter of 1943, “emotional disorders” were the most frequent cause of long-term removals from flying, and the number of emotional casualties bore a direct relationship to aircraft loss rates—one flesh-and-blood breakdown for every two heavy bombers that failed to return.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Beginning in the winter of 1943, “emotional disorders” were the most frequent cause of long-term removals from flying, and the number of emotional casualties bore a direct relationship to aircraft loss rates—one flesh-and-blood breakdown for every two heavy bombers that failed to return.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • It seems to me that the combination of imperfect border controls and the backlog in removals threatens to undermine the integrity of our immigration law.

    Holding the Government Accountable for its Management of Risk 2003

  • In addition to actual removals from the camp, many of the internees were subject to intensive "grilling".

    Experiences in a Japanese Internment Camp 1943

  • In successfully pressing for the injunctions, Heartland called the removals unconstitutional seizures that violated its right to due process.

    Judge bars future raids of Christian reform school 2004

  • It seemed he would not have a friend left, and yet his removals were always so kind and so clear in their necessity, that he secured the good will of nearly all.

    A Memorial Discourse on the Character of Abraham Lincoln 1865

  • The impetus for the removals was a May 4 letter from Verizon that, due to diminished usage, the company would start charging the county $75 per month per phone, or a whopping $45,000 a year.

    unknown title BY PEGGY WRIGHT | GANNETT NEWS 2009

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