abolition
Example Sentences
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Joe and Kate did not initially understand what the jury's verdict meant – and have now spent more than three decades campaigning for the abolition of not proven.
From BBC
The law requires that committee to review designs, and after a multiyear effort, it settled on five themes for the five quarters: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, abolition, suffrage and civil rights.
A group of Afro-Surinamese people, however, have criticized the royal program for not including a wreath-laying at a Paramaribo monument celebrating the abolition of slavery.
From Barron's
A group of Afro-Surinamese people have criticized the royal program for not including a wreath-laying at a Paramaribo monument celebrating the abolition of slavery.
From Barron's
Last month the United Nations General Assembly received a report from Reem Alsalem, its special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, calling for global abolition of surrogacy.
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