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There is every reason to suppose that even in 1829 a plébiscite, had one been possible, would have negatived the Catholic Relief Bill.

From England's Case Against Home Rule by Dicey, Albert Venn

On the score of impropriety and improbability it might in the old days have appealed to the Criterion management; but its lack of broad humour must have negatived these advantages.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

The plan above suggested would have negatived even more positively the boast and promise of the Confederate chief that Sherman should be driven out of Georgia.

From Forty-Six Years in the Army by Schofield, John M.

They could then, through the medium of a mock President, have negatived all bills which their party in Congress could not have opposed with success, and reduced representation to a nullity.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

The researches of Cuvier and others have negatived the theory of Lamarcke as to the transmutation of species.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various