Sentence examples for abolished from inspiring English sources

More than 20 years after it was abolished, Margaret Thatcher's poll tax remains the locus classicus for domestic political miscalculation and the yardstick by which all other UK governmental policy ineptitudes are still judged.

Abolished in cases of serious and complex fraud in 2003.

And if hitching has been all but abolished from major routes in Britain, it remains a handy way to get about in the Highlands and islands.

Like, say, the one that the Abbott government just abolished?

And that is more than enough reason why – and this is where I really am speaking the same language as Jarvis – we can't let French studies be hijacked or abolished by those who like France too much.

They had abolished all the rules, including the rule of law.

During his tenure, extensive environmental legislation passed to protect the Chesapeake Bay, gay marriage was legalized, the minimum wage was raised, the death penalty was abolished and undocumented immigrants were allowed to receive driver's licenses.

So firm was his belief in the primacy of opinion that Lysenko - the acme of Soviet political correctness - was hired to ensure that DNA be abolished.

Parliamentary immunity was abolished in the early 1990s after the "clean hands" corruption trials which purged Italy's old political and business classes.

When the NSP is abolished from 2015 analysts predict some universities may divert money to longer-term outreach work – again at a decentralised level.

He has abolished or is seeking to abolish bodies that fund renewable energy projects and independent research into climate change.