abolish

Example Sentences

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“Or maybe abolish is the word. I hear talk of folks wanting to abolish slavery,” I said hesitantly.

From Literature

Some of this friction is inevitable; care tasks are cyclical, after all, and no system abolishes effort entirely.

From Salon

The narrative that slavery “ended in 1865” with the 13th Amendment obscures the reality that abolition occurred unevenly across the Americas, with some nations abolishing slavery decades earlier than the United States.

From Los Angeles Times

There has also been unease from some councils about spending money on elections for councillor positions that will shortly be abolished as part of the overhaul.

From BBC

She said they had raised concerns about their capacity to run "resource-intensive elections to councils who may be shortly abolished", alongside the reorganisation of local government.

From BBC