abolition
Example Sentences
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The story of slavery’s abolition in the Atlantic world is often told from a top-down perspective.
“It means somebody who wants to...abolition something.”
From Literature
She said following the abolition of the not proven verdict in the Scottish legal system the jury was one of the first to return a verdict under the changed system.
From BBC
Had California remained part of Mexico, it would have been in this larger, earlier wave of abolition, rather than seeing the continuation or return of enslavement.
From Los Angeles Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
