Sentence examples for were being abolished from inspiring English sources

"I was chairman of the foreign language department at New Paltz in the late 70's, which coincided with the time that language requirements at colleges were being abolished," he said.

Mohammed al-Alagi, the provisional justice minister, said that exceptional courts that had been used by the Qaddafi government since the 1980s, primarily to prosecute dissidents, were being abolished.

"To calculate the conversion in reverse is not correct, since that is an operation of conversion from lire into euro and not vice versa," the ministry said, raising fears that the rules of mathematics were being abolished along with the national currency.

For example, maintenance grants are being abolished.

These grants are being abolished from January.

Fundamentally, privacy is being abolished – not eroded, not diminished, not encroached upon, but abolished.

"Social promotion is harmful to students and is being abolished in Texas" and elsewhere, he wrote.

The cost is negligible, yet these sensible bridges into work are being abolished.

Even flying was made cheaper, as air passenger duty is being abolished for children.

Miliband told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "Educational Maintenance Allowances are being abolished.

MPs are getting a 10% pay rise but student maintenance grants are being abolished.