Sentence examples for called for abolition from inspiring English sources

Umpteen eminent experts and committees have called for abolition of the mandatory sentence.

It has long advocated electoral reform, and in fact called for abolition of the Electoral College in 1970.

The foreign secretary, William Hague, called for abolition when he addressed the Commonwealth People's Forum in Australia last year.

He and Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, have called for abolition of the Electoral College.

Last week, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton came out strongly in favor of mayoral control, and even called for abolition of the board.

Britain's Catholic cardinals have called for abolition and Michael Howard, the then Tory leader, even promised it before the 2005 election.

Many of the governments and dignitaries calling for abolition are just mouthing the words.

So does open source mean you are calling for abolition of intelligence agencies as we know them, I ask.

Though many party members favoured the total abolition of slavery, the party pragmatically did not call for abolition in those states that already had slavery.

And while the report did not in so many words call for abolition of the I.M.F., it suggested restrictions that would in effect make even emergency lending impossible.

But I wish that in his article about the need to re-examine the intolerable racial disparities in our criminal justice system, he had gone a step further by calling for abolition of the death penalty.