Sentence examples for abolishing limits from inspiring English sources

The lawyers and activists who played a critical role in abolishing limits on contributions to independent groups — culminating in the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision two years ago — now hope to persuade Congress to repeal the federal caps on direct contributions to candidates, one of the last vestiges of the post-Watergate reforms.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Democrat Bill Clinton, made things worse by abolishing limits on the number of stations one company could own and making it next to impossible for the FCC to revoke station licenses.

"It also corrodes the 'independent' press, which long ago abolished limits to attack Chávez".

As for political corruption, there is no hiding the fact that big money controls Congress -- a situation bound to get worse due to the Supreme Court's decision to abolish limits on corporate campaign contributions.

And a special shout-out to the people without whom your victory would have been impossible: I am speaking of course, of John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito: The deciders in the calamitous Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, which abolished limits on independent expenditures for political campaigns.

It would be unfair to abolish limited liability, as George Monbiot suggests (8 December), and make small shareholders shoulder the blame for the board's actions when they have no control over them.

Blink three times for abolishing term limits and four times for forever-president Michelle.

Invited to ask a question, I asked whether abolishing term limits risked authoritarianism.

Mr. Museveni is running for an unprecedented fourth term, after abolishing term limits before elections in 2005.

But several defense lawyers said that abolishing time limits would make it more difficult for suspects to find witnesses and to mount an effective defense.

After winning a second term in 2006, Chávez won a referendum abolishing term limits and talked of ruling until 2021, then 2030.