6 sentences with 'abolish'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abolish and other words derived from it.
• « Having already lost control, the Assembly finally voted to abolish slavery altogether in February 1794. Thus, unlike the cases of Protestant and Jewish emancipation, racial equality was only "granted" by the Assembly because it could not be maintained by force. »
• « The Assembly initially made changes aimed at demonstrating the new political reality. Thus, with regard to the monarchy, the name of the king was removed from the heading of public documents and his effigy from the coins minted here. It was also decided to abolish the use of the seal with the royal arms and to create in its place what is now the Argentine national coat of arms. »
• « On 22 January 1814 the deputies decided to abolish the Triumvirate of Government and concentrate the government in a citizen with the title of Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. »
• « Some Quakers, who were deeply troubled by the contradiction between their belief in the "inner light" and the practice of slavery, rejected the practice and engaged in efforts to abolish it altogether. »
• « "That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed; that when any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it." »
• « Alcohol consumption was high among the working class, although many workers participated in the temperance movement. No wonder middle-class manufacturers tried to abolish alcohol. »