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Abolish

Abolish meaning

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. | To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.

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Example sentences (20)

He took care to use the phrase "ceased to exist" rather than abolish when he made the announcement because he had promised in 2000 that he would not abolish the council or its guidelines.

In 1856, in his unpublished The Eighteenth Presidency, addressing the men of the South, he wrote "you are either to abolish slavery or it will abolish you".

Said came under increasing pressure from the British to abolish slavery, and in 1842 the British government told the Zanzibari ruler it wished to abolish the slave trade to Arabia, Oman, Persia, and the Red Sea.

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And so, again, we can't abolish poverty in this country if we don't find a way to increase worker power across the board.

Another bill in the housing committee, which has not had a hearing, would abolish fair rent commissions.

Any game that the fans and alumni look forward to, let’s abolish it.

But the Bishop of Durham recently piloted a Private Member's Bill through the House of Lords to abolish it, calling it "immoral".

Do you worry that the no-exceptions call to abolish abortion is making things harder politically for the overarching anti-abortion cause?

Harold Wilson’s government later set out to abolish pay-beds in NHS hospitals.

However, the local authority recently decided to permanently abolish late return fees.

Infrastructure Victoria is among the chorus of experts wanting to abolish stamp duty, echoing the criticism that it is an inefficient tax.

In prison Holbrook began organizing for the rights of incarcerated people, including co-founding the Human Rights Coalition and the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration.

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Labor says it will undertake a full-scale audit of TAFE campuses, boost trades courses and student numbers and abolish a teachers' wage cap.

Last week in the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt sidestepped questions about the future of the Government's plans to abolish leaseholds, after rumours suggested they would not go ahead.

Legislators need to discuss death penalty and abolish it.

Meanwhile at State House, Judges and other elites dine and wine to celebrate the decision by the Executive and a divided Parliament to purportedly abolish the death penalty.

Mr Kwarteng had wanted to abolish the top rate of income tax and remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses.

Now and always, abolish the police.