Sentence examples for recently abolished from inspiring English sources

And Vietnam recently abolished its ban on same-sex marriage.

Beijing recently abolished a law that allowed the authorities to detain rural workers and send them home without legal proceedings.

He suggested that this continuing form of bondage might be more miserable, and more dangerous, than the one recently abolished.

Three other states, Florida, Nevada and New Jersey, recently abolished the limits in cases of sexual assault.

The government recently abolished one of its regional commands, citing corruption, and turned over its responsibilities to the army.

Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer, inspired much debate and rebuke when she recently abolished Yahoo's work-at-home policy.

We were made to believe that the rich got positioned so purely as a result of effort & genius, as though America did not recently abolish the legal institution of Jim Crow, and as though Slavery's illegality became enforceable criminally well before the actual date of 1942 when President Roosevelt signed Circular No. 3591 legislation.

The ordinance revived restrictions on retailers that had recently been abolished by the Japanese government.

According to legend, in the early 19th century a group of escaped slaves – ignorant of the fact that slavery had recently been abolished – jumped to their death when they spotted a group of soldiers making their way up the cliff.

WHEN Indonesia's parliament voted recently to abolish the 38 seats it reserves for the armed forces, pundits hailed the move as proof that the chief instrument of repression during the 32-year dictatorship of Suharto had finally been brought under civilian control.

So if the London bubble poses the greatest current threat to financial and economic stability, as the governor of the Bank of England recently opined, abolishing it or modifying it would make damn all difference.