It was abolished two years later by the then chancellor George Osborne.
The government recently abolished one of its regional commands, citing corruption, and turned over its responsibilities to the army.
The Welsh secretary, Alun Cairns, told the Conservative party conference in Birmingham that the tolls would be abolished two weeks ahead of schedule.
As its first act today, the Council abolished six national holidays that had been celebrated under Mr. Hussein's 24-year rule and created a new national day.
By 1865, the Republican Party had abolished one "twin relic of barbarism," and many within the party now contemplated the eradication of Mormon polygamy.
Tellingly, in referendums in Sardinia held with the elections, voters overwhelmingly abolished four provincial administrative structures, and their lawmakers with them.
The Tories used to boast that they abolished one tax a budget; and six pages of Lord Lawson's autobiography are given over to listing the Tory tax reforms.In this section When in roam Gordon's theorem Who blinks?
An example of government power, Mr. Facey said, was when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government "abolished two whole levels of local government" -- in Manchester and London -- because it disagreed with their left-wing politics.
The Ephorate, five elected magistrates who, with the king, formed the main executive body of the state, was abolished (four of the five ephors being executed); the powers of the council were probably curtailed; and patronomoi (the board of six elders) was probably introduced at this time.
Of the 50 seats to be abolished, seven would be Scottish.
