Sentence examples for working to abolish from inspiring English sources

Criminal Queers grows our collective liberation by working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.

Activists working to abolish the death penalty in the United States often suggest that political considerations affect the thinking of judges and prosecutors.

And the advocacy group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for working to abolish nuclear weapons.

Two other graduate students shared their organizing experiences, one working to abolish security checkpoints targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, the other in efforts to expand affordable housing in Arlington, Va.

"There is a point where humanity must prevail over the crime," said Mr. Badinter, a Jewish intellectual and now a Socialist member of the Senate who is best known for working to abolish France's death penalty in 1981.

As the historian Alan Brinkley notes in this issue's Comment, the parties have for decades been working to abolish this sort of convention, with its potential for embarrassment and disarray, and to transform what was a messily glorious exercise in democracy into a spectacle of television propaganda.

Those who work to abolish the death penalty in America, are not working on behalf murderers, as you say.

Her administration worked to abolish health care fees for children and pledged greater government aid to first-time home buyers.

He worked to abolish the feudal system and create a new nobility of merit, dependent on the ruler alone.

The Durrs moved to Washington, D.C., and Clifford worked with New Deal programs while Virginia worked to abolish the poll tax before returning to Montgomery in the early 1950s.

If elected, he has said, he will work to abolish it, along with the rest of President Obama's health care overhaul.