Sentence examples for long abolished from inspiring English sources

Four decades after Ronald Reagan invoked the "welfare queen", the nearest thing America had to income support is long abolished.

Window tax might be long abolished, but you wouldn't know it from looking at some of these case studies.

In the 1820's slavery in New York State had long been abolished.

To be sure, almost no Englishman defended slavery, long since abolished in the British Empire.

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

Tipping was long ago abolished in France, where, by law, a gratuity is added automatically to the bill.

Both Britain and Australia long ago abolished this penalty, and both would protest vigorously that it should not be carried out.

But a clutch of Asian and African members of the British Commonwealth, including India and South Africa, have long since abolished jury trials.

The Kronos Quartet long ago abolished the hegemony of establishment composers by commissioning all manner of musical artists to write string quartets.

The Portuguese long ago abolished most penalties for personal drug use, a decision that has proved surprisingly successful in curbing crime and returning addicts to society.

Both in the UK and the US, the restrictive provisions of coverture have long been abolished and women are, at least in law, equal to their husbands.