Sentence examples for abolished them from inspiring English sources

By 1916 some 20 states were using primaries, though in subsequent decades several states abolished them.

Until the Blair government abolished them, committees had been the backbone of local government since the Victorian times.

Richard III's attempts to raise benevolences were opposed by Parliament, which in 1484 abolished them as "new and unlawful inventions".

He doubled the customs duties on the Hindus and abolished them altogether in the case of Muslims.

From 1973 onwards hospital workers had been boycotting these private patients, while consultants responded with threats to strike if the government abolished them.

The enemy numbered six hundred, including women and children — and we abolished them utterly, leaving not even a baby alive to cry for its dead mother.

China is reluctant to abolish them.

Rather, it was to abolish them.

The only solution is to abolish them.

Labour would like to abolish them altogether.

Abolishing them is also politically dangerous.