Sentence examples for abolished the draft from inspiring English sources

Then Mrs Merkel abolished the draft, as the left wanted.

It led to the creation of an all-volunteer force, when the Nixon administration, in an attempt to reduce opposition to the war, abolished the draft in 1973.

The CDU does not question ubiquitous health care, public schools, or taxes, it has abolished the draft, and done away with nuclear power plants.

Mr. Putin, like President Boris N. Yeltsin before him, has vowed to restructure the military, abolishing the draft and establishing a professional, all-volunteer force.

Spain began allowing immigrants into the army in 2002 because it could not recruit enough Spaniards to fill its ranks after abolishing the draft.

In 1968, Mark Hatfield, one of America's most prominent evangelical politicians, wanted to abolish the draft and clandestinely wore a Eugene McCarthy pin under his lapel.

The pro-business Free Democrats, the junior partner in Mrs. Merkel's center-right coalition, wanted to abolish the draft altogether as one of the conditions for joining her government last October.

In the third referendum on conscription in 25 years, Swiss voters defeated a pacifist group's proposal to abolish the draft with a resounding 73% no vote on Sunday.

Despite being a first-term congressman, Bush was appointed to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, where he voted to abolish the military draft.

Finally in 1996, the "Act to Abolish the Leprosy Prevention Law," drafted by the MHW, was passed.

While great strides in protecting human rights were made in February the Burundian Senate passed draft legislation that abolished the death penalty and rejected a proposed amendment that would have outlawed homosexuality in April the lower house voted for the abolition of the death penalty and pushed for the passage of the latter amendment.