How to Use abolition in a Sentence
abolition
noun-
The second must-do is the abolition of the debt ceiling.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023 -
After the Civil War, the abolition of slavery caused those in the U.S. to take a fresh look at workers’ rights.
— Russ Bynum, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024 -
The game was facing strong criticism and even the threat of abolition.
— Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020 -
This process continued until the abolition of slave trade in the 1900s.
— Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021 -
To be clear, the death of police officers is not what abolition is.
— Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2022 -
Some favor not only the abolition of bail, but of prisons and the police.
— Rob Kuznia, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023 -
In fact, there were more slaves than colonists at the Cape during the century preceding the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
— Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021 -
But there’s a long tradition at TNR of urging the abolition of the monarchy—and even advising Charles to be the one to do the deed.
— Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 5 May 2023 -
Today this is no longer the case—the prison abolition movement has gone mainstream.
— Michelle Kuo, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020 -
To say that the abolition of the Affordable Care Act somehow equals the end of democracy is the wrong way of framing things.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021 -
Now, Democrats have made the abolition of the filibuster a litmus test for their party.
— The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022 -
With the abolition of the Paramount decrees, the court has opened the door for history to repeat itself.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2020 -
The girl’s death intensified a debate in England over the abolition of the slave trade.
— Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020 -
Reuben is careful not to take a stand on abolition himself.
— Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020 -
As long as there’s a royal family, there will be pomp and pageantry and polls about abolition.
— Raven Smith, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2023 -
In fact, Hamilton threw away his shot to take a stand on abolition early and often.
— Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020 -
It was founded in 1867, shortly after the end of the Civil War and abolition of slavery.
— Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2020 -
The amendment was the official abolition of slavery in the United States.
— Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022 -
Bass was born in South Carolina in 1874, less than a decade after the abolition of slavery.
— Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2020 -
The abolition of the 45pc rate had become a distraction from our mission to get Britain moving.
— Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2022 -
In 2021, its representatives called for the full abolition of the law.
— Javier Bastardo, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 -
In 2009, lawmakers ratified the U.N.’s two covenants on human rights, one of which calls for the abolition of the death penalty.
— Yian Lee / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024 -
Become a wealthy slave owner or achieve the abolition of slavery.
— María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 24 May 2023 -
Justice is a living George & the abolition of a system intent on harm.
— Sarah Todd, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2021 -
So that area has always been a part of the complicated legacy of the abolition movement.
— Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2023 -
Belle used her status and influence to free slaves and get involved in the abolition movement.
— Paulina Jayne Isaac, SELF, 8 Feb. 2022 -
The book hones in on ideas like prison abolition and racial disparities in healthcare.
— Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021 -
This is the bind that leaves many people, when first encountering abolition and ideas about the end of policing, asking: What about the rapists?
— Isabel Cristo, The New Republic, 6 July 2020 -
But in important ways, Rankin’s work provided a foundation for these titans to build even more support for abolition.
— TIME, 2 Dec. 2024 -
Advertisement Jurado, through a spokesperson, has described abolition as an aspirational goal, one that would take many years and many steps.
— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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