How To Use Abolish In A Sentence

But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
Many teachers wish to abolish the cane.
The job of ministers is to abolish and remove these obstacles to good teaching. Times, Sunday Times
The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery

Were Medicare abolished, the nonpoor would finance health care in their old age by buying health insurance when they were young. Becker and Posner vs. Medicare, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
We will abolish tax relief for private health insurance, whilst protecting the rights of existing policy-holders.
Irgm1 accumulated around the latex beads phagosomes (seen as refringent spheres) while the loss of the nucleotide-binding site completely abolished the phagosomal accumulation. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
We meet the commixture of materials and things in our excavation whose object is, among other things, to reorder, to abolish the disorder of collapse and dilapidation, to find significance and signification in the apparent chaos.
This system of dyarchy was abolished by the Government of India Act, which gave the provincial assemblies full responsibility for government.
In 2001, the program would be abolished.
A first move is to abolish the national insurance ceiling on contribution.
On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
In a world where all nonrelativistic truth has been abolished, the relativity principle itself is proclaimed as a universal verity.
He would even abolish all state and local tariffs except property and sin taxes.
Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry has more than doubled its visitors after abolishing admission charges.
Existing names for these tickets, such as supersaver and pricebuster, will be abolished. Times, Sunday Times
And they were abolished, not for grand ideological reasons but for simple practical reasons. Infinite in All Directions
He even abolished the system whereby the police controlled prisoners once they were released and introduced what we call the probation system where an independent probation service, a non-police service, supervises the prisoners. Churchill: A Life
I'm reminded of the first Christian legislators, who didn't quickly abolish the tolerant Roman laws regarding practices which didn't conform to the natural law, or which were actually contrary to it, such as concubinage and slavery," Cardinal Cottier wrote. CathNews
The only trouble was that under questioning it became clear that one of his central aims was to abolish mortgage tax relief.
We cannot raise prices on meat and dairy products sufficiently to balance the total present-day expenditure and abolish subsidies completely. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The first and most important task of the new administrative system is to abolish the dictatorship of the producer and to overcome the deficits of our economy. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
Ceramics timber of low temperature is a kind of material which uses plant remainder and the phosphorus dreg of industry abolishes as main raw materials, uses chemically bounded ceramic as its binder.
One needn't indulge utopian fantasies about abolishing government corruption or dealing a death blow to the power of monied interests in politics.
It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
All men -- man and woman -- are created equal, -- equal in _attributes of body and mind_; (for _that_ is the only sense in which they could be _created_ equal;) _therefore_ they are endowed with right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, unalienable, except in their consent; _consequently_ such consent is essential to all rightful government; and, _finally_ and _irresistibly_, the people have supreme right to alter or abolish it, &c. Slavery Ordained of God
The Russian Federation has issued a decree abolishing special privileges for government officials.
That is the proper case for abolishing non-dom status. Times, Sunday Times
The patriarchate of Moscow was abolished by Peter the Great in 1721 and replaced by a Holy Synod of bishops which was controlled by a lay official, the chief procurator.
On November 11, 1968, it was abolished and replaced by a republic, and the country assumed its present name.
In the 1990s Sweden finally decided that the establishmentarian status of the Lutheran Church should be abolished by the year 2000.
Fifteen years ago a Labour government in New Zealand abolished subsidies almost overnight.
Chairman Oberstar pointedly noted that system may be addressed -- or even "abolished" -- by future Congressional action. Aero-News Network
"We're going to cut out spending on bureaucracy and abolish regional health authorities.
They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The members were particularly annoyed that they had only received news of the final abolishment of the board within the previous 24 hours.
She believes that hereditary peerages should be abolished.
It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
In the egalitarian spirit of the French Revolution, the newly independent Haiti abolished primogeniture.
Her first move this week was to abolish a large enrolment fee for anyone needing hospital treatment. Times, Sunday Times
The first and most important task of the new administrative system is to abolish the dictatorship of the producer and to overcome the deficits of our economy. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The following year Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty for murder.
This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, the values and ideals were also created by those badly behaved Europeans in conditions that the European Union is now desperate to abolish, that is small and medium-sized, competing political entities. Myth of the week
The act did not abolish DISCs but limited their tax benefits and imposed an interest charge to tax-deferred earnings.
I believe that, with war abolished from the world, there will be improvement in the social, political, and economic systems in all nations, to the benefit of the whole of humanity. Linus Pauling - Nobel Lecture
Then in 1970 he formally abolished the Guards and the papal court. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded.
Union executives, who also want to see school league tables abolished, meet next week to decide whether to press ahead. The Sun
That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised.
Unless we devolve powers to county level and abolish the quangos, we will fail to energise local government to the challenges of the 21st century.
Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state.
Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere. Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
Feudalism was not abolished in England until 1660.
The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
His absurd plan to deliver a surplus entirely through cuts to unprotected departments is tantamount to a proposal to abolish the police. Times, Sunday Times
Behr-Sigel asks whether the ancient order of the deaconess could be restored since it has never been formally abolished in Orthodoxy.
The 1914 Act, among other provisions, deprived the Welsh bishops of their seats in the House of Lords, and abolished private patronage.
In the North, slavery was abolished.
Asthma is unlikely to be a single disease, so we should abolish the term altogether, states an Edito ... THE MEDICAL NEWS
Vernon officials argued that businesses would shut down if Vernon is disincorporated, that the Legislature has no legal standing to abolish it and that corruption here has been cleaned up. NYT > Home Page
Thirdly, for a difference to become an inequality it must also be abolishable. Eurozine articles
The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected. Times, Sunday Times
I agree, but abolishing the death penalty wouldn't mean that we would let crimes go unpunished.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Independence Day (Blog for Democracy)
The rebels are spearheading a violent campaign to set up a republican state by abolishing constitutional monarchy in Nepal.
Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
Do abolish this kind of bad evil.
The cry to abolish intoxicating liquors increased within the amenable audience of hard-working farmers that were money conscious and trying to make it in a new world.
The Russian Federation has issued a decree abolishing special privileges for government officials.
The abbey appears to have been almost abolished shortly after the Reformation, the only parts of the monastic buildings allowed to remain being the fratery and portions of the chapter-house, which were incorporated with the mansion-house. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
Primary elections and party caucuses should be abolished. Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America
But we abolished this uncivilized custom in conclave, and thenceforth sat our meals out to the end. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
For most patients, therefore, 1 or 2 days of treatment suffice to abolish the panic attack and its short-term aftereffects; afterward, the drug can be abruptly discontinued. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
At the same time it amended the republic's constitution to abolish the guaranteed Communist Party monopoly of power.
And he laid out welfare measures that he would put in place if Congress and the president abolish the current federal system.
He added that "centralisation" of policing is a "bad idea", and said it is clear the government wants to make local police boards redundant or abolish them altogether. Undefined
He argued that it was not practical politics to abolish private schools.
Simplifying income tax is an idea with wide appeal, and by abolishing special reliefs you could raise personal allowances sharply, taking low incomes out of tax altogether.
The Geneva-based organisation helps promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers to open markets.
The justification for central control is that if we are to let new entrants into higher education, then we must have the power to abolish fake universities. Times, Sunday Times
Road tax will be abolished and the loss of revenue will be compensated for with an additional surcharge on fuel.
That is why we announced plans to abolish practice boundaries two years ago. Times, Sunday Times
We must abolish the green currency system and the MCAs altogether.
The maximum limit on single charitable gifts qualifying for Income and Corporation Tax relief has been abolished.
On the other hand, civilization, house-building, warm apartments and kitchen fires, well-stored larders, and especially exemption from rude toil, abolish these extreme caricatures; and keeping appetite down to a middling level by the rote of meals, and thus taking away the incentives to ravenous haste, they allow the mind to tutor and variegate the tongue, and to substitute the harmonies and melodies of deliberate gustation for such unseemly bolting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
The trend in cardiovascular mortality with external conjugate was abolished by allowing for head circumference.
The necessity of limiting the influence of the crown and excluding 'placemen' from the House of Commons had been one of the traditional Whig commonplaces, and a little had been done by Burke's act of 1782 towards limiting pensions and abolishing obsolete offices. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
The union decided to vent its frustrations on the radio station's abolishing such institutions as the orchestra during a cost cutting exercise by blacking its music programmes for ten weeks in 1980.
Nearly eight out of ten want the practice to be abolished. Times, Sunday Times
These include lottery systems, abolishing sibling priority for those who move away and setting up priority zones. Times, Sunday Times
However when a tier of our democratic system does not work well it is imperative to improve it not abolish it.
The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected. Times, Sunday Times
Corfu was "pacified" -- that's the phrase for it -- by abolishing the landlords. Lord Kilgobbin
The movements to abolish the trade and emancipate the slaves gathered momentum.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. The Declaration of Independence
Not until tithing was abolished in the wake of the French Revolution did Ruländer establish its rightful place among German wines of distinction.
After the famine of 1763–64 there was talk of abolishing the annona and introducing a free market in grain. Delizia!
To reduce the status difference between bosses and subordinates, NTC management agreed to abolish the serial numbers indicating rank displayed on the name badges worn by all Nissan employees. CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE
She passed several salutary laws, one forbidding polygamy, another abolishing human sacrifices; her treaties with the Portuguese she faithfully observed, but never would acknowledge their supremacy -- never would allow herself to be called the vassal of any power. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
It was this Lord Chancellor, after all, who gaily announced that he had abolished himself, only to discover that the constitution didn't allow him to do so.
The package deal also abolished the Allied High Commission in Germany, ended the occupation statute, and admitted Federal Germany to Nato.
As with the genome, the internet was going to transform our lives, remake society, abolish boom and bust, bring everlasting peace and make the Tories unelectable forever.
Why this mattered is because there was a strong Northern push to abolish slavery: part humanitarian, part political calculation to redirect Northern worker anti-immigration angst away from the political dead-end of nativism, and part claim over Western resources. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Post-War Devastation
Oh! may we soon blot out the reproach which that neglect has justly rendered us liable to, since we abolished the novercal government of Britain! Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States.
The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it.
These were abolished when the Chinese People's Republic was founded, and Inner Mongolia was redivided into autonomous Mongol administrations.
Laurent Fabius, the Socialist president of the parliament, urged Mr Jiang to abolish the death penalty.
Promising to abolish three federal government departments, he could remember only two of them. Times, Sunday Times
The 20 percent. contribution will be abolished, the rebate system will be improved and single retired people will be protected.
There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
The state religion was disendowed, persecuted, and abolished. The Promised Day Is Come
He proposed instead to abolish the direct election of provincial governors, thus undermining the constitution and doing away with the country's political foundation of federalism.
And he laid out welfare measures that he would put in place if Congress and the president abolish the current federal system.
Another major challenge could come next year should voters approve a statewide ballot initiative aimed at abolishing mobile-home rent control.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee says the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, has become a symbol of what it calls bumbling bureaucracy, and it should be abolished. CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2006
The effect of the judgment is not to abolish the present system. Times, Sunday Times
The stone does more than liberate sigils from the Lights ' control and abolish bonding. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Nearly eight out of ten want the practice to be abolished. Times, Sunday Times
We think that the 30% private health insurance rebate on ancillary and extra items, not hospital cover, but the ancillaries really should be abolished and that funding redirected to the Public Hospital System.
Besides prolonging receptor-peptide interactions, acylation is found not to abolish peptide conformational flexibility and it only moderately affects the bilayer elastic properties.
The legislature passed a law to aBolish the surtax.
X-ray pelvimetry during pregnancy and labour increases the incidence of leukaemia in infancy, and should be abolished (Stewart et al 1956, 3. CARE DURING THE FIRST STAGE OF LABOUR
Many were outraged that the firms hired to furbish the homes of the fashionable had dared to breach the bedroom, and proposed to abolish the sacramental double bed and replace it with the new “twin beds” which manufacturers were beginning to introduce. The Twin Bed | Edwardian Promenade
If they are then, in a reverse of this situation, enabled to declare their London home as their principal home for Tax purposes, this surely is a feathering of the nest which, whilst lawful at the moment, ought to be abolished right away. Archive 2007-09-23
America was founded on abolishing the monarchy but seems to have spent the past couple of centuries regretting it. Times, Sunday Times
This would mean doing more than abolishing the rights of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. IN DEFENCE OF ARISTOCRACY
The Bill to abolish the Scheme was meanwhile being rushed through Parliament, and a fresh ballot was needed for the strike.
For what it is worth, I heartily agree with him that international friendlies should be all but abolished. Times, Sunday Times
There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
Keeping the world from being destroyed by weapons of mass destruction means getting to the point where we abolish war itself. Times, Sunday Times
It was abolished hundreds of years ago as sanity and reason won the argument against those who sanctioned it.
It has no more right to do this than it has the right to abolish compensation payments between businesses when one company poaches a senior executive who is under contract to another.
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.
And here, perhaps, we may be pardoned for the digression necessary to show the exact definition of the terms abolish, abolition and abolitionist. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
At that time, the gods Anu and Enlil, for the enhancement of the well-being of the people, named me by my name Hammurabi, the pious prince, who venerates the gods, to make justice prevail in the land, to abolish the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak, to rise like the sun-god Shamash himself associated with dispensing justice over all humankind to illuminate the land.3 In the Valley of the Shadow
Another of his principles was cleanliness; “the speedy abolition of all abolishable filth is the first process of education.” The Life of John Ruskin
He headed us abolishing the slavery.
The caste system, he says, will never be abolished by social reform or positive discrimination in favour of Untouchables.
He also wants to abolish the separation of church and state and turn government into an ultraconservative theocracy where only members of his religion are allowed to rule.
When finally, remaining wartime controls were abolished these influences did not suddenly disappear.
He was a whiner as a government critic and a reckless promiser; in 1954, without consulting colleagues, he suddenly promised to abolish the means test on age pensions.
The job of ministers is to abolish and remove these obstacles to good teaching. Times, Sunday Times
Income tax was to be cut and domestic rates abolished along with road tax.
That is, once socialism replaced capitalism, classes would be abolished and class struggle would cease. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The government believes that people will love it for abolishing counties like Humberside, which proud Yorkshiremen have always refused to acknowledge.
don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans openly gay troops from serving in the military, calling abolishment of the law "the right thing to do. ABC News: ABCNews
When the comitia were abolished at Rome, the Prætorian guards took their place: insolent, greedy, barbarous, and idle soldiers were the republic. A Philosophical Dictionary
Amendments to the Act have now abolished mandatory retirement altogether for most categories of workers.
Most democracies have abolished capital punishment.
My personal opinion is that the patent system is unreformable and should be abolished.
Ferdinand IV also alienated the rural masses by failing to abolish the feudal system and alleviate the tax burden.
The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected. Times, Sunday Times
Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years. Times, Sunday Times
Certain Council regulations provided that production refunds should be payable for maize starch, but that they should be abolished in the case of maize groats and meal, which were used in the production of beer.
Instead of _taking_ "private property," Congress, by abolishing slavery, would say "_private property_ shall not be taken; and those who have been robbed of it already, shall be kept out of it no longer; and every man's right to his own body shall be protected. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The list is not relevant to people with mental impairments and is abolished in the Bill. Times, Sunday Times
Inheritance tax should be abolished on the sale of land used for affordable housing. Times, Sunday Times
Should the death penalty be abolished?
If I ruled the world, nationalism and patriotism would be abolished.
It's likely that the law will be abolished before long.
Is it any wonder I am infuriated by smug, self-righteous politicians who know nothing about country life yet want to abolish hunting with hounds?
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has signalled that he intends retaining the controversial Groceries Order, despite admitting that abolishing it would bring down prices.
By inadvertence he has completely abolished the strange and remarkable trees and shrubs of islands -- such as St. Helena -- where the herbivorous animals introduced by him have made short work of the wonderful native plants isolated for ages, and have completely exterminated them, so that they are "extinct. More Science From an Easy Chair
There is also a move afoot to abolish bearer share regimes that do not facilitate a record of the owner, as ownership is passed by delivery of the shares.
When our founding mothers and fathers wrote the Constitution, they took a major step forward in terms of progressive policies, by abolishing capital punishment.
the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax
The pengo was abolished shortly afterwards and replaced with the forint. Times, Sunday Times
There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, by a law that was signed by the regent Princess Isabel.
Pisander and his colleagues on their voyage alongshore abolished, as had been determined, the democracies in the cities, and also took some heavy infantry from certain places as their allies, and so came to Athens. The History of the Peloponnesian War
The effect of the judgment is not to abolish the present system. Times, Sunday Times
The following year Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty for murder.
Special ameliorative doctrines for defining plaintiff, s negligence are abolished.
Among the Zulu, King Shaka abolished initiation and substituted military induction for males.
In practice, in the arts, particularly in Pop-art, but also in concrete music, a deliberate attempt is being made to abolish the differences between art and nonart. LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
Or just the opposite, you now stuck with light pockets, but the writing is something heavy that could never fit into wallets, you fightin' just to eat and the roaches start crawlin' in, but at least you didn't hack your craft down to an abolishment. The Dilemma
And that begins with abolishing the loan system. Times, Sunday Times
I suggest the opposite: abolish the honours system altogether. Times, Sunday Times
When this jigger was abolished the sail retained its lateen shape, got on to the mainmast, and became what we may call a main crossjack, thereby rendering a square mainsail impossible. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
Finally, on the verge of another slave revolt, the King of Denmark abolished slavery in 1848 in what was now called the Danish West Indies. U.S. Virgin Islands, United States resort colony, bought for $25 million; 2nd in a 21st Century American Colonies series
I am today abolishing permanent non-dom tax status. Times, Sunday Times
The "epidemicity" of war has one other clear implication: War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish war.
As the law of Descents, and the criminal law fell of course within my portion, I wished the committee to settle the leading principles of these, as a guide for me in framing them; and, with respect to the first, I proposed to abolish the law of primogeniture, and to make real estate descendible in parcenary to the next of kin, as personal property is, by the statute of distribution. Autobiography
Therefore, the proposal abolish national holiday system.
The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
The Maoist rebels have been waging a Marxist insurrection in Nepal for nine years to abolish the monarchy.
Another major challenge could come next year should voters approve a statewide ballot initiative aimed at abolishing mobile-home rent control.
Thus, for example, customs duties, discriminatory internal taxation and quotas have been abolished.
Universal, reliable and even human-made light, completely independent of diurnal rhythm, has abolished the shamanist aspects of our calling.
Third, export duties on most manufactures were abolished.
Slavery was abolished in the US in the 19th century.
I don't want to pollute rivers or abolish employee protection or privatise traffic lights. Times, Sunday Times
Its first act was to abolish the death penalty. Times, Sunday Times
But until the poor Law was abolished finally in 1948, the principle of financial support between-kin applied more broadly.
If transcription through such DNA regions is impeded by means of a transcription terminator or by shutting off the promoter, hyperrecombination is abolished.
Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law.
Literature refutes both people who think gender should be abolished and people who have overly-narrow views of womanhood or manhood.
When the rightist government came in, it decided to abolish this federal position altogether.

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