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Usage examples of abolish.

This is a much neater place than the last, but the people look stupid and apathetic, and I wonder what they think of the men who have abolished the daimiyo and the feudal regime, have raised the eta to citizenship, and are hurrying the empire forward on the tracks of western civilisation!

The result is to vest an unrestrained discretion in Congress to curtail and even abolish the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and to prescribe the manner and forms in which it may be exercised.

Christ entirely abolished the punishment of hell, so that those who are baptized and truly repent, should not be subject to it.

Governor Arthur abolished land grants to emancipists first, and then altogether, but had nonetheless awarded himself a great acreage, without the payment he demanded from everyone else.

The decay of feudalism and of ecclesiastical privilege took the form of a changed and not of an abolished position for peer and priest.

During his reign, the Habeas Corpus Act was passed and feudalism was practically abolished.

It is thought that Peter the Great, who made the year begin in January, would have also abolished the old style if he had not been afraid of offending England, which then kept trade and commerce alive throughout your vast empire.

Sime and Gen alike, who have given their lives to abolish the junct transfer.

Since the days of Rimon Farris, we have added to the roll of martyrs, Sime and Gen alike, who have given their lives to abolish the junct transfer.

I cannot go into the question of what would happen if all forms of professional licensure, including licensure of physicians, were abolished, as I think they ought to be.

God will make them unholy and idle dayes when he lyste, or of their owne holy dayes abolished make worke dayes agen, or when they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye.

I stand and look after her for a minute, pursuing her with my eyes as I would with my feet and then, realizing that I am very late for therapy and things will be even worse if I do not appear shortly, I break into a clumsy, loping run, heading toward the appropriate room, thoughts of Nala and even the escape momentarily abolished.

However, the intensification of raiding has made it inexpedient to abolish the sirens at this moment.

A cheerful submission was rewarded with honors and riches, but the prudent Artaxerxes suffering no person except himself to assume the title of king, abolished every intermediate power between the throne and the people.

The new National Constituent Assembly, of which her father was a member, abolished the ancient system of feudalism and the collection of seigneurial dues and services, and drafted a Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.