abolition
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Later in the 19th century, King Charles’s ancestor King William IV spent decades opposing abolition before eventually giving royal sign off on laws to make slavery illegal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The country profited for centuries from colonialism and slavery, but argues it also led the way in the latter's abolition.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
In a statement, Türk urged Iranian authorities to halt all executions and move toward the abolition of the death penalty, saying that "such punishment has no place in our world".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
My hope for this country: Revolution, liberation, abolition, community care, mutual aid, public services that actually allow people to thrive instead of like constant competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
He wanted to share a marriage of equals, a relationship that would not interfere with her work on abolition and women’s rights.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
But the think tank argues abolitions also cost money and time in the short term, with services disrupted when powers are transferred.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Further abolitions and moratoriums since then mean that most countries no longer use the punishment, although several large nations including China, Iran and the United States maintain it.
From Reuters ● Oct. 9, 2021
Through most of the last century, “there was a strategic withdrawal from capital punishment as business-as-usual in European nations, long before abolitions started to spread.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2014
There are easy abolitions, which are wrought in some sort of themselves, and which seem the natural corollary of a political revolution; as, for instance, that which occurred forty years ago in the Spanish republics.
From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth
Born under the French Directory and the Presidency of Washington, Carlyle survived two French empires, two kingdoms, and two republics; elsewhere partitions, abolitions, revivals and deaths of States innumerable.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
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American History I
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