abolish
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We absolutely need to abolish the concept that going to a concert alone is any kind of abnormal or undesirable behavior.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
And we absolutely need to abolish the concept that going to a concert alone is any kind of abnormal or undesirable behavior.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
It also calls for the government to abolish the social care savings threshold for working-age people and equalise staff pay between social care and the NHS.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He sought to create a selfless “New Man” and tried to abolish money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Garfield also pushed for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery, a change in the Constitution favored by Lincoln and the Republican Party.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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Some of this friction is inevitable; care tasks are cyclical, after all, and no system abolishes effort entirely.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026
“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
RIP’s model of buying debt at discount prices is especially attractive to donors because on average, every $1 donated abolishes about $100 in face value medical debt.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Having reached its highest point, and seen through the work of the will, it does not turn back and organise it, but abolishes it as far as its insight extends.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
Some have called for fraternities to be abolished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The program comes days after the Supreme Court abolished limits on the purchase of rural land by foreigners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Every coin America has ever abolished, from the half-cent in 1857 forward, died the same way.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
In 1799, New York’s legislature passed a law that gradually abolished slavery in the Empire State.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The slave trade, but not slavery itself, is abolished in Washington, D.C., after January 1851.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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The other barrier to abolishing fraternities is their popularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
When Watters pressed him about abolishing ICE, he did not surrender the moral argument or get stuck in a defensive loop.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The NTA needs deep structural reform to address recurring failures, but abolishing it is not the answer, said M Jagadesh Kumar, former chairman of India's universities regulator.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
An amendment abolishing slavery was passed by Congress in January 1865.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
In Virginia, however, laws abolishing primogeniture and entail had been passed during the Revolution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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