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  • But Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson.   (source)
  • Prudence indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed.   (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
  • ...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.   (source)
  • He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power.†   (source)
  • He would not dare abolish a personal prelature established by a previous Pope!†   (source)
  • He said that once—when Hester proposed abolishing the draft.†   (source)
  • The junior high school entrance examination had been abolished.†   (source)
  • Crake himself had found beards irrational; also he'd been irritated by the task of shaving, so he'd abolished the need for it.†   (source)
  • "That book wasn't even written until a century after slavery was abolished."†   (source)
  • People were doing the kinds of things we had fantasies of doing: taking over universities and abolishing classes,-making houses out of cardboard boxes and putting them in people's way,-sticking their tongues out at policemen.†   (source)
  • The Inland Architect, a prominent Chicago journal, reported: "That un-American institution, the trades union, has developed its un-American principle of curtailing or abolishing the personal freedom of the individual in a new direction, that of seeking, as far as possible, to cripple the World's Fair."†   (source)
  • The Society managed to turn infanticide and the cry of savagery around, and build a further case for abolishing slavery.†   (source)
  • We allowed the unions to be abolished, the various religious denominations to be suppressed, there was no freedom of speech in the press or on the radio.†   (source)
  • —Blaise Pascal Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.†   (source)
  • They abolished that law in 1968.†   (source)
  • The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.†   (source)
  • That's the same thing you're doing here, by abolishing them.†   (source)
  • As for the interior, there were spongy displays of liver-colored carpet intermittently abolishing the glare of varnished, resounding floors; an immense modernistic living-room couch covered in nubby fabric interwoven with glittery strands of silver metal; a breakfast alcove featuring a banquette upholstered in blue-and-white plastic.†   (source)
  • The Bantu Authorities Act abolished the Natives Representative Council, the one indirect forum of national representation for Africans, and replaced it with a hierarchical system of tribal chiefs appointed by the government.†   (source)
  • SINCE SOUND IS NO LONGER APPRECIATED, I HEREBY ABOLISH IT.†   (source)
  • This certainly wouldn't be the last we heard about abolishing the monarchy.†   (source)
  • The only thing that remained of that unfortunate venture was the breath of renovation that the matrons from France brought, as their magnificent arts transformed traditional methods of love and their sense of social well-being abolished Catarino's antiquated place and turned the street into a bazaar of Japanese lanterns and nostalgic hand organs.†   (source)
  • Third, we are demanding that the Americans abolish a secret agency within their government.†   (source)
  • All vestiges of the feudal system with its oppression of the poor were abolished.†   (source)
  • But then in the 1780s a few indignant Britons, led by William Wilberforce, decided that slavery was so offensive that they had to abolish it.†   (source)
  • "So you're suggesting in all seriousness that the board should decide to abolish dividends and bonuses.†   (source)
  • Further, Jefferson abolished the old whiskey tax and began cutting back on the navy, halting shipbuilding and selling off ships already built, while at the same time, ironically, starting to deal effectively with the Barbary pirates.†   (source)
  • She would sooner abolish the office.†   (source)
  • I abolished the rabbit, and thought a puppy, then some chickens, and then a horse and cart.†   (source)
  • So, over vehement protests from the men, he abolished that committee and created a women's committee and a men's committee, and since then the women had taken over.†   (source)
  • Receiving lines are being abolished, giving formal functions a more casual feel.†   (source)
  • So you tell people that science is a futile fraud which ought to be abolished!†   (source)
  • This is what open, honest talk about abolishing slavery did in New York during the 1830s.†   (source)
  • And under those emotions, something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly abolished.†   (source)
  • For a week he did this every day at lunchtime, because lunch had been abolished.†   (source)
  • It moved by fits and starts toward an eventual majority in favor of abolishing slavery as the only way to win the war and preserve the Union.†   (source)
  • But abolishing liberty because it nourishes faction is as silly as the wish to annihilate air because it gives fire its destructive energy.†   (source)
  • When the Overlords had abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.†   (source)
  • To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.†   (source)
  • For those several times he had made her change "total abolishment" (vollstandige Abschaffung) to Vernichtung.†   (source)
  • The Texans, they say, didn't want to pay taxes and, second, Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829, and Texas, being part of Mexico, was required to free its slaves.†   (source)
  • The real Navy opinion is even more extreme: The Army is obsolete and should be abolished.†   (source)
  • They'll abolish money.†   (source)
  • For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.†   (source)
  • Their faces were sagging, their vision destroyed, their time sense abolished.†   (source)
  • Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.   (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
  • They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings.   (source)
    abolished = eliminated (did away with)
  • Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?   (source)
  • He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, Beasts of England had been abolished.   (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
  • You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.   (source)
    abolished = eliminated (did away with)
  • How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished?   (source)
  • He could not of course know — for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it — that the name 'Animal Farm' had been abolished.   (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
  • The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their children, in almost the old-fashioned way.   (source)
    abolished = eliminated (did away with)
  • The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.   (source)
  • But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.   (source)
  • He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside.   (source)
  • Yesterday was July the fourth, which used to be Independence Day, before they abolished it.†   (source)
  • BOYS and GIRLS have been abolished, that much is clear; though there's still a chain-link fence.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Saudi Arabia abolished slavery only in 1962, and Mauritania in 1981.†   (source)
  • To argue that trial by jury is being abolished in criminal cases is vain and fruitless.†   (source)
  • And all the island ports controlled by the British Empire have abolished slavery.†   (source)
  • He swept away — abolished the last remains — vestiges — of the bad old days —feudal system.†   (source)
  • Then start by abolishing all income taxes.†   (source)
  • All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.†   (source)
  • It is ridiculous to say it abolishes county courts.†   (source)
  • Some people have said this provision abolishes trial by jury.†   (source)
  • Regarding civil causes, opponents argue that since trial by jury isn't mentioned, it is abolished.†   (source)
  • The fear that the State governments will be abolished is imaginary.†   (source)
  • If the new Constitution abolished the State governments, there would be a reason to object.†   (source)
  • Opponents claim this means that trial by jury is being abolished.†   (source)
  • Trial by jury in civil cases would not be abolished.†   (source)
  • They say that trials by jury are being abolished in all civil and criminal causes.†   (source)
  • Trial by jury is not abolished by the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Brutus abolished royalty, substituting a reform that was prepared by Tulius Hostilius.†   (source)
  • Of propertied classes and speculators when they have long since been abolished by earlier decrees!†   (source)
  • You failed, and it's all been abolished, disbanded…"†   (source)
  • But haven't all such activities been abolished?†   (source)
  • The duty, imposed by armed force, to live unanimously as a people, as a whole nation, was abolished.†   (source)
  • IT IS SHREWD OF THE NEW HEADMASTER TO MAKE SUCH A POPULAR DECISION—AND WHAT COULD BE MORE POPULAR WITH STUDENTS THAN ABOLISHING A REQUIREMENT?†   (source)
  • The maesters will tell you that King Jaehaerys abolished the lord's'right to the first night to appease his shrewish queen, but where the old gods rule, old customs linger.†   (source)
  • When she and Tywin wed, your father drank too much wine at the wedding feast and was heard to say that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the first night had been abolished.†   (source)
  • Kansas abolished capital punishment in 1907; in 1935, due to a sudden prevalence in the Midwest of rampaging professional criminals (Alvin "Old Creepy" Karpis, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Clyde Barrow and his homicidal sweetheart, Bonnie Parker), the state legislators voted to restore it.†   (source)
  • After this war is over, this whole country will undergo a change for the better …. abolishing slavery will dignify labor; that fact of itself will revolutionize everything.†   (source)
  • …which I have been convicted before this court, may it rest assured that when my sentence has been completed I will still be moved, as men are always moved, by their conscience; I will still be moved by my dislike of the race discrimination against my people when I come out from serving my sentence, to take up again, as best I can, the struggle for the removal of those injustices until they are finally abolished once and for all…… I have done my duty to my people and to South Africa.†   (source)
  • Vestiges, feudal system and abolished.†   (source)
  • The filth and lies they were spreading about abolishing slavery and the equality of races had gone far enough, and the mob was there to put a stop to it once and for all.†   (source)
  • It was a dangerous job that had taken many lives; it had been abolished years earlier by the invention of the hydraulic gun; but there had been struggling, failing mills which, on their way down, had attempted to use the outworn equipment and methods of a distant past.†   (source)
  • I believe in the ideas that constitute the foundation of your cause, Mr. Tappan, and would love to see slavery abolished in this country this very instant.†   (source)
  • One paper, the New York Express, went on to pose a most prescient question: "How long will it be now before a Southern gentleman traveling with his servants is immediately sued by his property as soon as they cross over into a Northern state where slavery has been abolished?"†   (source)
  • However, a federal law abolishing or preventing collection of State taxes (unless on imports and exports) would not be the supreme law of the land.†   (source)
  • Vide Number 81 refutes the idea that it is abolished by the appellate jurisdiction in matters of fact being vested in the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • Until the people have changed or abolished the Constitution, through an authoritative act, it is binding on them collectively and individually.†   (source)
  • However, when Sparta became part of the Achaean league, her ancient laws and institutions were abolished and those of the Achaeans adopted.†   (source)
  • Some people claim this power abolishes all the county courts in the States, which are often called inferior courts.†   (source)
  • Yet this is the reasoning of people who say that trial by jury in civil cases is abolished because it is required in criminal cases.†   (source)
  • In fact, if they were abolished, self-preservation would force the national government to reinstate them.†   (source)
  • And it can be totally abolished if the few States that allow the unnatural traffic agree to prohibit it.†   (source)
  • In one instance, they abolished both the royalty and the aristocracy, and overturned all the ancient establishments, in the Church as well as the State.†   (source)
  • Trial by Jury Not Abolished   (source)
  • Slave Trade Abolished in 1808†   (source)
  • When they abolished the French Foreign Legion very few cushy billets were left for us romantic types.†   (source)
  • I'm abolishing most of the committees.†   (source)
  • But though this may have blurred the distinction between Umkhonto and the ANC, it by no means abolished that distinction.†   (source)
  • But we cannot solve the problems of legislative independence and responsibility by abolishing or curtailing democracy.†   (source)
  • I don't know how much outer zoology they are teaching you kids these days-from the ignoramuses we get for recruits I've reached the conclusion that this new-fangled 'functional education' has abolished studying in favor of developing their cute little personalities.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of 1938, in the full flood of his passion, he began working on his magnum opus, the aforementioned pamphlet, in which for the first time he broached the idea—very cautiously, backing and filling with a circumspection bordering on the ambiguous—of "total abolishment."†   (source)
  • When they were broken open, they erupted a dazzling blue flare that ionized the Rhodopsin—the visual purple in the retina of the eye—blinding the victim and abolishing his perception of time and space.†   (source)
  • …without legislation either for or against slavery, thus running directly contrary to the hotly debated Wilmot Proviso which was intended to prohibit slavery in the new territories; (3) Texas was to be compensated for some territory to be ceded to New Mexico; (4) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia; and (5) a more stringent and enforceable Fugitive Slave Law was to be enacted to guarantee return to their masters of runaway slaves captured in Northern states.†   (source)
  • Abolishment.†   (source)
  • John B. Henderson of Missouri, one of the Senate's youngest members, had previously demonstrated high courage by introducing the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, simply because he was convinced that it would pass only if sponsored by a slave-state Senator, whose political death would necessarily follow.†   (source)
  • We are abolished too.†   (source)
  • Total abolishment.†   (source)
  • Revolutionary courts-martial were instituted, and the death penalty, which had recently been abolished, was restored.†   (source)
  • You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.†   (source)
  • But just because of it, the punitive organs that are to be abolished will be in all the greater hurry to settle their local accounts before the end, and they will be all the more savage.†   (source)
  • But the moment the lower classes had risen, and the privileges of those on top had been abolished, how quickly had those people faded, how unregret-fully had they renounced independent ideas-apparently no one had ever had such ideas!†   (source)
  • Suppliers, concessionnaires, and authorized agents were names then given to small businessmen to whom the government, which had abolished private trade, occasionally made concessions at moments of economic difficulties, charging them with the procurement of various goods.†   (source)
  • And it seemed to him that even then he saw, like a silent reproach to the passers-by, thin, decently dressed old men and women shrinking against the walls, wordlessly offering for sale things no one bought and no one needed-artificial flowers, round coffee pots with glass lids and whistles, black net evening dresses, uniforms of abolished offices.†   (source)
  • Though this might have sometimes blurred the distinction, it did not abolish it.†   (source)
  • The proposed Constitution doesn't abolish the State governments.†   (source)
  • Clearly, the Constitution doesn't abolish trial by jury.†   (source)
  • The people can alter or abolish the constitution if it is not consistent with their happiness.†   (source)
  • If the Union hurt public happiness, I would say: Abolish the Union.†   (source)
  • This appellate jurisdiction does not abolish the trial by jury.†   (source)
  • A national legislature can control, direct, or abolish local authority at any time.†   (source)
  • Charlemagne didn't abolish the national assembly, which slowly moved towards independence.†   (source)
  • And a majority of people could alter or abolish the Union's government at any time.†   (source)
  • (PISCES, AMPHIBIAN, BIRDS, MAMMALS, AND MAN) ABOLISH.†   (source)
  • Now the woman is turning intellectual, and will insist on a belligerent discussion of politics, and will doubtless order him to abolish slavery in the South at once.†   (source)
  • "IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD."†   (source)
  • But Randy White was just warming up; his next decision was to abolish the Latin requirement—a requirement that everyone (except the members of the Latin Department) had moaned about for years.†   (source)
  • One of the first things Dany had done after the fall of Astapor was abolish the custom of giving the Unsullied new slave names every day.†   (source)
  • He felt privileged, blessed in his profession, he told Jonathan Sewall: Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?†   (source)
  • All they had to do was abolish guilt, and add an s. I turn a corner, onto a side street, a double row of expensive boutiques: hand knits and French maternity outfits and ribbon-covered soaps, imported tobaccos, opulent restaurants where the wineglasses are thin-stemmed and they sell you location and overhead.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, during that year some soldiers predicted that the war must also become a fight to abolish slavery.†   (source)
  • In the report he submitted to the Kansas Supreme Court, Judge Thiele found that the petitioners had received a constitutionally fair trial; the court thereupon denied the writ to abolish the verdict, and set a new date of execution-October 25, 1962.†   (source)
  • After taking power, Mao brought women into the workforce and the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and he used his political capital to abolish child marriage, prostitution, and concubinage.†   (source)
  • When Lincoln ran for reelection that year on a platform pledging a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery, he received nearly 80 percent of the soldier vote—a pretty fair indication of army sentiment on slavery by that time.†   (source)
  • Its example ultimately prompted France to abolish slavery in 1848, inspired the American abolitionists and the Emancipation Proclamation, and pushed Cuba to enforce a ban on slave imports in 1867, in effect ending the transatlantic slave trade.†   (source)
  • The parliamentarians and ministers he met with almost immediately broke into long moralistic tirades about the evils of slavery and the need to abolish it worldwide.†   (source)
  • He had even been invited to dinner by President Jackson, who nearly laughed the old Irishman out of the White House when he suggested that the President work to abolish slavery in the United States.†   (source)
  • The people have the right to "abolish or alter their governments as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.†   (source)
  • Or suppose that the federal government tries to abolish a State's property tax, saying it interferes with federal revenues.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the national government might abolish State taxes on the pretense that they interfere with national taxes.†   (source)
  • The Senate's main concern, he insisted, was neither to promote slavery nor to abolish it, but to preserve the United States of America.†   (source)
  • Check of proof: Is it possible to abolish war by relieving population pressure (and thus do away with the all-too evident evils of war) through constructing a moral code under which population is limited to resources?†   (source)
  • He had always maintained that he "would like to abolish party responsibility and in its stead establish personal responsibility.†   (source)
  • He ran blindly onto the skyway, shied feebly from an oncoming car, and was struck down into enveloping darkness— ABOLISH.†   (source)
  • 16 ABOLISH THE LABYRINTH.†   (source)
  • This sentimental business about abolishing the death penalty simply encourages crime.†   (source)
  • All the physiological stigmata of old age have been abolished.†   (source)
  • "Slavery," Fitzhugh predicted, "will everywhere be abolished, or everywhere be reinstituted."†   (source)
  • There probably still is God after all, although we have abolished Him.†   (source)
  • Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.†   (source)
  • Financial terms of peace would be agreed on—which would yield an excellent profit in ransoms—and all would be more or less as it had been before—except that the fiction of feudal overlordship would be abolished, which was a fiction in any case.†   (source)
  • Racial hate had been the bane of my life, and here before my eyes was concrete proof that it could be abolished.†   (source)
  • It had been 'done up' at George's cost, I rather think; all traces of the night nursery were abolished.†   (source)
  • Rather that courts be abolished and each man buy arms and proceed to protect himself or make war for what he thinks is rightfully his own, than that a man should be tried by men who have already made up their minds that he is guilty.†   (source)
  • The normal is abolished.†   (source)
  • "You know quite well," he said, "that trial by ordeal has been abolished, and, as for doing it by purgation, it would be impossible to find the necessary number of peers for a Queen."†   (source)
  • "Let us sleep," he said, and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him, and he said, "Sleep well, little long rabbit."†   (source)
  • After he had become a lame-duck Congressman, Lincoln introduced into Congress in January 1849 a resolution to instruct the Committee on the District of Columbia to report a bill abolishing slavery in the District.†   (source)
  • Lily Briscoe had looked up at last, and there was Mrs. Ramsay, unwitting entirely what had caused her laughter, still presiding, but now with every trace of wilfulness abolished, and in its stead, something clear as the space which the clouds at last uncover—the little space of sky which sleeps beside the moon.†   (source)
  • The efforts to dig a channel for Might had failed, even when it was turned to the spirit, and now he was feeling his way towards abolishing it He had decided not to truckle with Might any more—to cut it out, root and branch, by establishing another standard altogether.†   (source)
  • LOMAX [leniently] Well, the more destructive war becomes, the sooner it will be abolished, eh?†   (source)
  • Woodrow thought they should be abolished and all that.†   (source)
  • I told you to begin by abolishing the State.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.†   (source)
  • It was one of those "millinery establishments" which were abolished by the police a good time ago.†   (source)
  • I found it was "the act of abolishing;" but then I did not know what was to be abolished.†   (source)
  • Major Cavalcanti is already one, perhaps; but then, hereditary rank is abolished.†   (source)
  • "It abolished itself, my friend," said he.†   (source)
  • Gratitude was to be abolished, and the virtues springing from it were not to be.†   (source)
  • Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.†   (source)
  • Estates tail were abolished in Virginia in 1776, on a motion of Mr. Jefferson.†   (source)
  • I found it was "the act of abolishing;" but then I did not know what was to be abolished.†   (source)
  • I think the pillory ought to be abolished.†   (source)
  • It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good.†   (source)
  • I think the pillory ought to be abolished.†   (source)
  • The crowd this time said nothing: the story certainly savoured of the supernatural, and though the Republic had abolished God, it had not quite succeeded in killing the fear of the supernatural in the hearts of the people.†   (source)
  • They demanded that the system be abolished, and that ten hours be considered a day's work, barring unavoidable delays, with $2.†   (source)
  • 'Faith, Hope, and CHARITY,' it says, and, 'The poor ye have with ye always,' which indicates that there never can be anything to these so-called scientific schemes for abolishing charity, never!†   (source)
  • By the process of memory, Swann joined the fragments together, abolished the intervals between them, cast, as in molten gold, the image of an Odette compact of kindness and tranquillity, for whom he was to make, later on (as we shall see in the second part of this story) sacrifices which the other Odette would never have won from him.†   (source)
  • Men shall yet rise up, father against son and brother against brother, and kill one another for the great Catholic idea of abolishing slavery.†   (source)
  • He was working to have it abolished.†   (source)
  • What if I were now to commit some terrible crime—murder ten fellow-creatures, for instance, or anything else that is thought most shocking and dreadful in this world—what a dilemma my judges would be in, with a criminal who only has a fortnight to live in any case, now that the rack and other forms of torture are abolished!†   (source)
  • Fielding had "no further use for politeness," he said, meaning that the British Empire really can't be abolished because it's rude.†   (source)
  • They had a 'discussion crowd' and the point of abolishing the clubs was brought up by some one—everybody there leaped at it—it had been in each one's mind, more or less, and it just needed a spark to bring it out."†   (source)
  • As for Balbec, it was one of those names in which, as on an old piece of Norman pottery that still keeps the colour of the earth from which it was fashioned, one sees depicted still the representation of some long-abolished custom, of some feudal right, of the former condition of some place, of an obsolete way of pronouncing the language, which had shaped and wedded its incongruous syllables and which I never doubted that I should find spoken there at once, even by the inn-keeper who…†   (source)
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