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The country's biggest union, Unia, also warned the initiative would weaken labour protections, abolish rules barring discrimination between resident and foreign employees and "open the door wide to wage dumping".

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The union also wanted Samsung to abolish a bonus cap of 50% of annual salaries and allocate 15% of annual operating profit to a bonus pool distributed to workers.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

And some lawmakers in North Carolina seek to follow suit: A bill introduced in the state Senate last spring seeks to abolish both homewrecker laws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Given such concerns, to say nothing of the general inconvenience associated with daylight-saving time, it’s no surprise that there have been a growing number of calls to abolish the back-and-forth clock changing.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

Yet when language scholars try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

The new version of the constitution also declares Uzbekistan a "social state" with increased welfare obligations, abolishes death penalty, establishes greater personal legal protection, and allows non-farming land ownership.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

The new law erodes the effects of single family zoning, he said, "but it in no way overrides or abolishes it."

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2021

This time, one assumes the government will adhere to established procedures as it abolishes the program; it was the slapdash failure to follow rules that resulted in its losses in court.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2020

There can be for each but one Best, which abolishes the simply Good and Better.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

A freeholder can seek to repossess someone's home if a leaseholder doesn't pay service charges, something that will also be abolished under the reforms.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

In the years that followed, the American people abolished slavery, amended a constitution that had accommodated it, expanded civil and political rights that had long been denied to millions, and became a great multiethnic democracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Undue Medical Debt said it’s abolished more than $40 billion of medical debt in all 50 states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

The general minimum skill requirement was lowered, from graduate level to A-level equivalent, and the Resident Labour Market Test, which required companies to prove they could not hire locally first, was abolished.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Then slavery would be constitutionally abolished once and for all.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

An amendment abolishing slavery was passed by Congress in January 1865.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

He also infuriated colleagues in the coalition government, the British press reported, proposing a stream of unconventional ideas: scrapping maternity leave, abolishing job centers, even buying cloud-bursting technology so Britain would have more sunshine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Lincoln may be best known for saving the Union and abolishing slavery, but “Boss Lincoln” contends that “party organization” was “Lincoln’s life’s work.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Both leaders came with lofty goals, yet discussed methodical steps that included a 50 percent cut in strategic nuclear arms, with the ultimate target of abolishing the entire global nuclear stockpile by the year 2000.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026

“It is easy for dreamers to speak of abolishing slavery,” said Mr. Sharpe.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson