Sentence examples for until abolished from inspiring English sources

Levied solely on Chinese immigrants, the tax reached $500 in 1923, when it was replaced by the Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigration until abolished in 1947.

Until abolished by the current government, there was a laudable target of building 60% of new housing on "brownfield sites" in cities.

A major slave revolt began in August 1791 and continued until France abolished slavery in February 1794.

Emerging first in the Middle Ages, they persisted until Parliament abolished the last of them in 1723.

During 1895 99 Blake headed a "committee on legislative advice" within NAWSA until Anthony abolished it.

(The family's title comes from Piombino, an area on the western coast that was a princely state until Napoleon abolished it in 1801).

I think he is wrong not to have made more of a stand on behalf of the education maintenance allowance paid to 16- and 17-year olds until Gove abolished it.

"Having a strong construction industry watchdog, the ABCC, we know – this is not theory – when it was in place, until Labor abolished it, there was a significant increase in productivity," Turnbull said.

Construction subsidies helped pay for the more costly ships, until Congress abolished them in the 1980s.

(The rules weren't abolished until 1994).

Slavery was not abolished until – wait for it – 1962.