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abolition

[ab-uh-lish-uhn] / ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ən /


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"This is an unacceptable shift away from, and abolition of, the policy that urged companies to shorten work hours," the National Confederation of Trade Unions in Tokyo, commonly known as Zenroren, said in a statement.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 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

In a statement, Türk urged Iranian authorities to halt all executions and move toward the abolition of the death penalty, saying that "such punishment has no place in our world".

From BBC Aug. 5, 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

As weeks turned into months and the fighting continued, she fell into a predictable routine of daily chores and abolition work.

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

"We're sleepin' late, account of them midnight abolitions."

From Sundown Slim by Anton Otto Fischer

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




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