Sentence examples for rather than abolish from inspiring English sources

For revenue reasons, the Senate, in its version of the bill, decided to modify the A.M.T. rather than abolish it.

They wanted to reform rather than abolish capitalism, and their agent of reform was not the socialist working class, but the loosely conceived idea of "the people".

More government spending could give the economy a boost, but not if it comes at the expense of private investment.The new government could have chosen to close the loopholes in the FUT, rather than abolish it.

After voting to reform football rather than abolish it, this group set in motion a series of rule changes that, coming in the wake of Needham's muckraking and Roosevelt's prodding, would ultimately transform football.

Tanner fingers neoconservatives like Irving Kristol who he thinks have always been dangerously complacent about accepting the existence of the welfare state, hoping to reform rather than abolish it outright.

Having reorganised its junior competitions in 2006 and, three years later, launched the Europa League and reduced the five-club group stage to four, Uefa is planning to develop the tournament rather than abolish it.

This article was amended on 5 April 2013 to make clear that the 50p top rate of tax is to be cut to 45p, rather than abolished.

When I asked Anwar about this, he said that such resistance could be managed by reformulating the quotas rather than abolishing them.

As for Japan Post, rather than abolishing its savings and insurance functions altogether, they would continue as separate operations, and privatisation would be deferred to 2017.

Bhavnagri said that should the RET be scaled back rather than abolished, investment would resume but at around half its current level, meaning that $10bn would be invested between now and 2020.

As for those who are really worked up about it, they may have listened rather too closely to Michael Howard, the Tory leader, when he argued that immigration is not an unqualified menace and should be controlled rather than abolished outright.