How to Use abolition in a Sentence

abolition

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now, Democrats have made the abolition of the filibuster a litmus test for their party.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • As long as there’s a royal family, there will be pomp and pageantry and polls about abolition.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The amendment was the official abolition of slavery in the United States.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The abolition of the 45pc rate had become a distraction from our mission to get Britain moving.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Become a wealthy slave owner or achieve the abolition of slavery.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • 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
  • What if safety is achieved not by violent organs of the state but through their abolition?
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • At Cornell, students push for pass/fail courses only and the abolition of all grades.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2022
  • It’s about the abolition of hanging, but also about men of that era, and justice, and miscarriages of justice.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Lincoln, in the new Republican party, ran on a platform of abolition, which made the South believe there was no longer a place for them in the Union.
    — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The king expressed remorse during a speech marking the 160th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 July 2023
  • Cullors says her own definition of abolition has changed over the past few years.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
  • That work led to the abolition of a law that had allowed rapists to avoid punishment by marrying their victims.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The abolition of a pitiless world through pitilessness.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Since there are already about a million handguns in Canada, and more still crossing the border from, well, us, the abolition will not be complete.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • The Grimke sisters left behind their slaveholding families to take up the cause of abolition.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even after the abolition of slavery, Junkanoo lore persisted and evolved.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to suffrage, to civil rights to the modern-day fight for Black lives.
    — Laphonza Butler, Essence, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The cemetery is also part of the Network to Freedom, as key players in the abolition movement are buried in the cemetery, including Samuel Cushing.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The group demanded, among other things, the abolition of all student debt in the U.S., an idea that was then considered ludicrous.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Some activist groups had wanted the apology to come from the Netherlands’ king, and on the 160th anniversary of abolition, Reuters reported.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
  • His abolition of the wealth tax, labor market reforms, and promise in his next term to raise the retirement age to 65 has endeared him to business leaders.
    — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Her novels made the case for the abolition of slavery and for the Thanksgiving traditions of her New England ancestors.
    — Meir Soloveichik, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The only guarantee against the use of nuclear weapons is their complete abolition.
    — Time, 21 July 2023

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