Sentence examples for finally abolishing from inspiring English sources

The rise of the American navy at the end of the 19th century and the realization that privateering belonged to an earlier form of warfare prompted the United States to recognize the necessity of finally abolishing it.

But in the 1960's the New Thing, led by Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor, went further: expanding the sound vocabulary of instruments, eliminating cadential harmony and the modal system, exploring polytonality and atonality, adopting irregular meter, and finally abolishing metric time.

The truth is there is no cure-all for the ethical, moral and practical problems capital punishment raises -- that is, short of a Supreme Court ruling finally abolishing the inherently cruel and unusual "machinery of death," as Justice Harry Blackmun termed it.

And Liana Maeby looked beyond the ceremony to consider how a certain Best Picture nominee could affect the country: "Here's hoping all this insane Abraham Lincoln love is buildup to the announcement that we're finally abolishing the penny".

Resolutions 1412 and 1432, passed on May 17 and August 15 respectively, suspended the UN travel ban on UNITA officials for 90 days each, finally abolishing the ban through Resolution 1439 on October 18. UNAVEM III, extended an additional two months by Resolution 1439, ended on December 19.

The pillory was finally abolished in Britain in 1837.

The panchayat system was finally abolished by law in 1993.

The MVD was gradually dismantled and finally abolished in 1960.

In England it was finally abolished by Elizabeth I.

In December 1965, the death penalty is finally abolished.

In 1897 the legal status of slavery was finally abolished.