abolition

"It's the celebration of the abolition of slaves, so it's a big day of memories," Twinsy says.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

"We want to return to this state permanently and therefore demand the abolition of the Video Assistant Referee in German football."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 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 and the other abolition constitutionalists built a movement that eventually saw their views win out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

While the women shared an interest in abolition, Anthony did not have much interest in women’s rights or suffrage.

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

The English reductions and abolitions extended beyond France to the commodities of all countries alike.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley