act retroactively

常見例句

If Congress does act to retroactively reinstate the donation rule, the gift will be excluded from income just as under the pre-2012 rule.
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The act of retroactively canceling insurance is called rescission.
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But in Hamdan, the high court held that the 2005 act did not apply retroactively, so that habeas proceedings already under way could continue.
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