Want to see free speech abolished because it offends your delicate sensitivities? |
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The debate on whether the death penalty must be abolished or not will go on till the cows come home. |
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Tattooing criminals was continued until 1870, when it was abolished by the new Meiji government of the Japanese Emperor. |
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Literature refutes both people who think gender should be abolished and people who have overly-narrow views of womanhood or manhood. |
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Turkey, for example, has abolished the death penalty and legalised broadcasts in Kurdish. |
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On 21 September the monarchy was abolished in France and a republic was declared. |
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At the beginning of this year the global quota system for textiles was abolished. |
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But baronial powers were largely abolished after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. |
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Some people argue that capital punishment is a savage act and must be abolished in every state. |
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What about suttee in India, a traditional practice abolished by the British colonialists? |
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It was experts who abolished grammar schools for their presumed comprehensive paradise. |
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Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, by a law that was signed by the regent Princess Isabel. |
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On November 11, 1968, it was abolished and replaced by a republic, and the country assumed its present name. |
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He preferred the hard board of the third-class compartment, now abolished, rather than the cushioned first class of the railways. |
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Parliament has not abolished arbitration and litigation of construction disputes. |
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Meanwhile, he has abolished many of the royalties due on North Sea oil and slashed corporation taxes. |
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Accordingly, socialism was a transitional phase to a Communist society, in which all ownership was abolished. |
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These were abolished when the Chinese People's Republic was founded, and Inner Mongolia was redivided into autonomous Mongol administrations. |
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Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded. |
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It was abolished hundreds of years ago as sanity and reason won the argument against those who sanctioned it. |
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In 1924, when the Turkish revolution overthrew the Ottomans, the caliphate was abolished. |
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That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised. |
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Slavery and feudalism were in the end abolished, with a stroke of the pen followed if necessary by a stroke of the sword. |
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The package deal also abolished the Allied High Commission in Germany, ended the occupation statute, and admitted Federal Germany to Nato. |
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This led to a broader approach to teaching programmes and abolished the link between Proficiency marks and secondary education. |
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Foley did not express a view on whether the Groceries Order should be retained or abolished. |
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In Eastern Europe it was abolished with the fall of communism and adoption of democracy. |
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In 1970 the Admiralty abolished the rum ration within the Royal Navy, apparently on health grounds. |
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The political radicals who ran the French Revolution from 1793 abolished the concept of weeks altogether. |
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Between now and 2005, tariffs will be slashed on a wide variety of products, and all import quotas will be abolished. |
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He abolished his predecessor's discrimination against the Tamils, for example by introducing Tamil as an official language next to Sinhalese. |
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The Animals Act 1971 abolished the scienter action and replaced it with a statutory code of strict liability. |
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The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the six metropolitan councils, replacing their police authorities by more quiescent joint boards. |
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This difficulty was abolished by the kindness and sagacity of Mr Atkinson, who had been my adviser throughout. |
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However, these will all be abolished and replaced by a single piece of legislation that covers all UK pensions. |
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The former traditions of electing a new Pope by acclamation or by compromise have now been abolished. |
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We in the Liberal Democrats say council tax is fundamentally unfair and should be abolished. |
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Road tax will be abolished and the loss of revenue will be compensated for with an additional surcharge on fuel. |
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That gives a total of one hundred and six countries that have abolished the death penalty in practice. |
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Baronial jurisdiction was abolished, as was personal servitude, but dues and services attached to land tenure remained unless they were redeemed. |
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It is widely claimed that although slavery was officially abolished 200 years ago, it is still thriving today. |
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When I campaigned to have football's maximum wage abolished back in the 1960s, many's the letterbox I had to dump my load through to press home our point. |
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The intercalary month by which the Arabs adjusted the lunar months to the solar year is abolished, severing the connection between the religious rituals and the seasons. |
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All chapters and other benefices without cure of souls were now abolished. |
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The worst abuses were officially abolished, but the yoke of oppression did return, and new laws depriving people of their freedom and their political rights were instituted. |
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If I remember rightly, this Act abolished attainder in New South Wales. |
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If transcription through such DNA regions is impeded by means of a transcription terminator or by shutting off the promoter, hyperrecombination is abolished. |
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After the abolition of slavery in the 19th century, it becomes thinkable that the relics of domination will be abolished in the 21st and 22nd centuries. |
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For homicides where the act causing death was committed after 17 June 1996, the rule that death must occur within a year and a day of such act or omission has been abolished. |
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Apart from a personal allowance, all other exemptions are abolished. |
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The directive dates back to 1986, was kept secret and reportedly was abolished. |
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Pledging, also known as initiation, will now be abolished by sigma Alpha Epsilon nationally across its 240 chapters. |
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Berkshire was split into six unitary authorities, but not formally abolished. |
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The London Government Act 1963 abolished those of London and Middlesex and created the Greater London Council. |
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The post of county alderman was abolished, and the entire council was thereafter directly elected every four years. |
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In 1986 the six metropolitan county councils were abolished, with their functions transferred to the metropolitan boroughs and joint boards. |
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County councils were abolished in 1975 when a system of large regional councils was introduced. |
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Regions were themselves abolished in 1996 and replaced by the current unitary council areas. |
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The county councils also gained the duties of the abolished education authorities. |
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In 1990 it was abolished and the Inner London borough councils also became local education authorities. |
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Somewhat inevitably, in 1633, Tarbertshire was abolished, in favour of the sheriff of Argyll. |
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In urban areas that were considered too large to be single parishes, the parishes were simply abolished, and they became unparished areas. |
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The Education Reform Act 1988 abolished the Inner London Education Authority and made the inner London boroughs education authorities. |
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The powers of the marcher lordships were abolished, and their areas formed into new counties, or amalgamated into existing ones. |
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In 1641, the Long Parliament abolished the Council of the North for perceived abuses during the Personal Rule period. |
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On 1 April 1974, the city council was abolished, becoming part of the Borough of Medway, a local government district in the county of Kent. |
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Pitt's income tax was levied from 1799 to 1802, when it was abolished by Henry Addington during the Peace of Amiens. |
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In the 2010 general election, the existing Rugby and Kenilworth constituency was abolished and split in two. |
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Following this run of failure Arriva was publicly critical of the government's prequalification process and called for it to be abolished. |
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On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative county was abolished, as were the county boroughs. |
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The local school boards that they largely controlled were abolished and replaced by county governments that were usually controlled by Anglicans. |
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Many meetings where Liberal Friends predominate abolished this religious practice. |
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Sweden originally abolished the Licentiate in 1969 but reintroduced it in response to demands from business. |
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The King's College London Act 1903, abolished all remaining religious tests for staff, except within the Theological department. |
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This remission has since been progressively reduced, and is due to be abolished altogether. |
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In 1986, the West Midlands County Council was abolished and Coventry became administered as an effective unitary authority in its own right. |
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The third Secretary of State and the Board of Trade were abolished and pensions were limited and regulated. |
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The Theatres Act 1968 finally abolished censorship of the stage in the United Kingdom. |
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In AD 393, during the Roman gladiator period, boxing was abolished due to excessive brutality. |
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In 1999, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was abolished and merged with the UEFA Cup. |
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In 1952, these states were abolished and the East was divided into 14 administrative districts called bezirke. |
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From 1 January 2019 this contribution will be abolished, as it is being replaced by higher income tax instead. |
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English Regional Assemblies were abolished between 2008 and 2010, but proposals to replace them were put forward. |
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Most notably, the office of Lord Lieutenant was abolished, being replaced by the new office of Governor of Northern Ireland. |
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In the summer of 2005, Ukraine abolished its normal visa requirement for visitors from the EU to coincide with its hosting of the event. |
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Thus, a reign usually lasts until the monarch dies, unless the monarchy itself is abolished or the monarch abdicates or is deposed. |
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Meanwhile, several states have either abolished or struck down death penalty laws. |
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The Company's rule lasted until 1858, when, after the Indian rebellion of 1857, it was abolished. |
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In 1807, the UK Parliament passed the Bill that abolished the trading of slaves. |
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The 56 smallest of these, as measured by their housing stock and tax assessments, were completely abolished. |
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Most of the pocket boroughs abolished by the Reform Act belonged to the Tory Party. |
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In 1826 Sultan Mahmud II abolished the Janissary corps and established the modern Ottoman army. |
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As part of the process of Gleichschaltung, the Reich Local Government Law of 1935 abolished local elections. |
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Trade unions were abolished in May 1933 with the seizure of the funds and arrest of the leadership of the Social Democratic trade unions. |
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The Attlee Government also abolished the marriage bar in the Civil Service, thereby enabling married women to work in that institution. |
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The succeeding Major government abolished the tax in 1991 and introduced Council Tax in 1993, a banded property tax. |
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The protocol also abolished the judicial functions of the Committee of Ministers. |
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Gwent itself was abolished in 1996 but remains in use for ceremonial functions as a preserved county. |
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In 1986, the Greater London Council was abolished by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. |
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In 1807, Britain prohibited the slave trade and, in 1833, abolished slavery in its colonies. |
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By the end of the English Civil War, the monarchy, House of Lords, and Privy Council had been abolished. |
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In 1659, shortly before the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. |
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However, the whole system of government could be abolished, and the next parliament would not be bound if it were not considered a successor. |
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Subsequently, Australia effectively abolished the right of appeal from the Commonwealth courts by statute. |
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Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, abolished appeals to the Privy Council in 1972, on becoming a republic. |
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The ranks of private, used by the RMLI, and gunner, used by the RMA, were abolished and replaced by the rank of Marine. |
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The GDR joined with the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990, upon which the GDR's constitution and armed forces were abolished. |
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Trial by jury was abolished in 1970 so that judicial decisions would rest entirely in the hands of appointed judges. |
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It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state, and free blacks struggled afterward with discrimination. |
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In the past years intervention has been reduced or abolished in all sectors. |
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The Executive itself had been abolished in 1953 by the Conservative government, and control of BR transferred to the parent Commission. |
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On 1 April 1900, the Board of Education Act 1899 abolished the committee and instituted a new board, headed by a president. |
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Five years later, in 1939, Edern was abolished and incorporated into Nefyn. |
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Constitutions may also provide that their most basic principles can never be abolished, even by amendment. |
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In much of Europe, controls on persons were abolished by the 1985 Schengen Agreement and subsequent European Union legislation. |
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With trade tariffs with England now abolished, trade blossomed, especially with Colonial America. |
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Internal tariffs were abolished by Henry VIII of England, they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain. |
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The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986, which left London as the only large metropolis in the world without a central administration. |
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It was abolished on 31 March 2009 and replaced with South East England Councils in Kingston upon Thames. |
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A reform of local government abolished Cleveland and created several unitary districts. |
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However, it was often sidelined and was abolished after the Acts of Union 1707, with rule direct from London. |
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After the Glorious Revolution, Presbyterianism was restored and the bishops, who had generally supported James VII, abolished. |
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The Parliament of Ireland passed the Acts of Union 1800 by which it abolished itself and the Kingdom. |
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De Valera abolished the Oath of Allegiance and embarked on an economic war with Britain. |
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In 782, Charlemagne abolished the system of Gaue and replaced it with the Grafschaftsverfassung, the system of counties typical of Francia. |
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Mary's first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid and abolished Edward's religious laws. |
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The Dutch West India company was abolished in 1791, and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state. |
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Avon has since been abolished, and several mainly urban areas have become unitary authorities. |
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The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. |
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The House of Lords was abolished by the Rump Commons, and executive power was assumed by a Council of State. |
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The new authorities abolished the Church of England and the House of Lords. |
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After the execution of Charles I, the House of Commons abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords. |
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The earlier Greater Manchester County Council was abolished in 1986 so it is effectively a unitary authority. |
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Legislation sanctioned on 4 August 1789 abolished the Church's authority to impose the tithe. |
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In autumn 1789, legislation abolished monastic vows and on 13 February 1790 all religious orders were dissolved. |
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The legislators abolished hereditary offices, except for the monarchy itself. |
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Immediately on 21 September the Convention abolished the monarchy, making France the French First Republic. |
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Their chief vehicle for agitation were pamphlets and women's clubs, but the clubs were abolished in October 1793 and their leaders were arrested. |
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The French Revolution abolished many of the constraints on the economy that had slowed growth during the ancien regime. |
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It abolished tithes owed to local churches as well as feudal dues owed to local landlords. |
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It also abolished the highly inefficient system of tax farming, whereby private individuals would collect taxes for a hefty fee. |
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Addington opposed emancipation, instituted annual accounts, abolished income tax and began a programme of disarmament. |
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The compulsory factor was finally abolished in 1868 by William Ewart Gladstone, and payment was made voluntary. |
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In 1964, the 24th Amendment, which abolished the use of poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections, was passed. |
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He abolished democracy, espousing a radical, racially motivated revision of the world order, and soon began a massive rearmament campaign. |
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The new commissioning system was expected to be in place by April 2013, by which time SHAs and PCTs should have been abolished. |
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Similar arrangements exist in Berkshire, where the county council has been abolished. |
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However this model of constitutional monarchy was discredited and abolished following Germany's defeat in the First World War. |
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The remaining two regions no longer have any administrative functions, having abolished their regional local authority leaders' boards. |
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The Scottish Parliament established, and later abolished a graduate endowment to replace the fees. |
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In 1942 this office was abolished and became a division of the Department of Public Safety, called the Louisiana State Police. |
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Section 221 of the Local Government Act 1972 abolished the borough civil courts listed in Schedule 28 to that Act. |
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The final trial of a peer in the House of Lords was in 1935, and in 1948, the use of special courts for trials of peers was abolished. |
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Appellate jurisdiction for Ireland returned to Westminster when the Acts of Union 1800 abolished the Parliament of Ireland. |
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The Criminal Justice Act 1948 abolished the use of special courts for trials of peers. |
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A regional assembly and regional development agency were created in 1999, then abolished in 2008 and 2012 respectively. |
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The regional chambers were abolished between 2008 and 2010 with their executive functions transferring to the regional development agencies. |
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In 1974, administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished, and a major reform was instituted. |
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Following a further rearrangement in 1996, Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester, and Humberside were abolished. |
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The creation of the Irish Free State in the following year saw the remaining county lieutenancies in Ireland abolished. |
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When this court was abolished in 1830, its rights were in turn transferred to the courts of King's Bench, Exchequer, and Commons Pleas. |
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The county councils of these were abolished in 1986, but the counties themselves still exist legally. |
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On 1 April 1996, the unpopular counties of Avon, Humberside and Cleveland were abolished and their former area divided into unitary districts. |
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The city regained its independence and county status on 1 April 1996, when Avon was abolished and Bristol became a unitary authority. |
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By the end of the English Civil War, the monarchy, House of Lords and Privy Council had been abolished. |
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None of these was ever formally abolished, but the Magnum Concilium was not summoned after 1640 and was already considered obsolete then. |
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As part of the Republic of Colombia, Panama State was abolished and it became the Isthmus Department. |
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William Wilberforce's Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. |
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It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution finally was abolished, but on a gradual basis. |
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They abolished slavery by the end of the 18th century, some with gradual systems that kept adults as slaves for two decades. |
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The Arizona Organic Act abolished slavery on February 24, 1863 in the newly formed Arizona Territory. |
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Johnson abolished peonage in 1966, which rapidly decreased sharecropping in every plantation nationwide. |
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The Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and 4 million slaves were freed. |
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King Henry I gave the hermits' territory to the abbey of Tavistock, which established a priory on Tresco that was abolished at the Reformation. |
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The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. |
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In 1885 the borough was abolished, but the St Ives name was transferred to the surrounding county constituency. |
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They were abolished in England and Wales in 1972, when the Courts Act 1971 replaced them and the assizes with a single permanent Crown Court. |
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In Scotland they survived until 1975, when they were abolished and replaced by district courts and later by justice of the peace courts. |
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They are now abolished, although in Northern Ireland their former areas are used as the basis for lieutenancy. |
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On that date the six districts and Cornwall County Council were abolished and were replaced by Cornwall Council. |
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In 1974 the Boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities. |
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In 1974 the Penzance Borough was abolished and replaced by Penwith District Council. |
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Penwith District Council was abolished in 2009, and the principal local authority in the area is now Cornwall Council. |
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Austen does not mention the Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished the slave trade, though not slavery itself, in the British Empire. |
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The Criminal Justice Act 1982 abolished the borstal system in the UK, introducing youth custody centres instead. |
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The Criminal Justice Act 1982 officially abolished the borstal system in the UK, introducing youth custody centres instead. |
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A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. |
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On 23 August 1946, the military government abolished the province and reconstituted it as a separate Land. |
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The feudal system was gradually abolished in the late 18th century, starting with the crown lands in 1765 and later the estates of the nobility. |
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In 1805 all serfdom was abolished and land tenure reforms allowed former peasants to own their own farms. |
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On 20 September 1792 the National Convention abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic. |
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Consular dating had already been abolished in 537, when Justinian introduced dating by the emperor's regnal year and the indiction. |
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Pursuing his father's reforms, Charlemagne abolished the monetary system based on the gold sou. |
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Although serfdom was abolished in 1861, it was done on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries. |
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It is the modern term for a manor, but lacks the latter's now abolished jurisdictional authority. |
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At the Holy Roman Empire's Reichstag at Worms in 1495 AD, the right of waging feuds was abolished. |
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The parliament institution was abolished in 1716, together with the rest of institutions of Catalonia, after the War of the Spanish Succession. |
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Leopold II of Tuscany abolished the death penalty in Tuscany and reduced censorship. |
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Although it dominated many societies in the past, this form of slavery has been formally abolished and is very rare today. |
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In 2008, the Nepalese government abolished the Haliya system, under which 20,000 people were forced to provide free farm labour. |
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Though slavery was officially abolished in Qing China in 1910, the practice continues unofficially in some regions of the country. |
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The Qin dynasty, which ruled China from 221 to 206 BC, abolished slavery and discouraged serfdom. |
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None of the Southern or border states abolished slavery before the American Civil War. |
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In 1905, the French abolished indigenous slavery in most of French West Africa. |
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He also reformed the tax system and permanently abolished the chrysargyron tax. |
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The use of Latin as the language of administration persisted until formally abolished by Heraclius in the 7th century. |
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In 1981 slavery was formally legally abolished by a specific law, making Mauritania the last country in the world to do so. |
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The Italian colonial administration abolished slavery in Somalia at the turn of the 20th century. |
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The imperial family was deposed from power and the sultanate was abolished on 1 November 1922 after the Turkish War of Independence. |
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Although Portugal officially abolished slavery in 1876, the practice of forced paid labour continued. |
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In 1807, the British abolished the slave trade, followed by the United States the next year. |
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To build an alliance with the gens de couleur and slaves, the French commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel abolished slavery in the colony. |
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The autonomous institutions of Catalonia were abolished, and the use of the Catalan language in public life was suppressed. |
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In addition the Santa Cruz colony was abandoned and the Governorship of Coquivacoa was abolished. |
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Slavery existed in Paraguay, although not in great numbers, until 1844, when it was legally abolished in the new Constitution. |
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The former districts of Dongshan and Fangcun were abolished in 2005, merged into Yuexiu and Liwan respectively. |
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Inspired by the French Revolution, leaders proposed a society without slavery, food prices would be lowered, and trade restriction abolished. |
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With Mexican and Central American independence, the caste system and slavery were theoretically abolished. |
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Conscription was abolished in 1999 and replaced by voluntary military service. |
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In that year, the sultanate was abolished and transformed into a residency of the Dutch East Indies. |
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These organisations gradually lost their autonomy, and were abolished by Catherine II by the late 18th century. |
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After Great Britain abolished slavery, it began to pressure other nations to do the same. |
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Slavery in the French Republic was abolished on 4 February 1794, including in its colonies. |
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To that end, on 25 November 1542, the Emperor abolished slavery by decree in his Leyes Nuevas New Laws. |
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Slavery in the French colonies was finally abolished only in 1848, three months after the beginning of the revolution against the July Monarchy. |
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He also wrote the decree of 27 April 1848 in which the French government announced that slavery was abolished in all of its colonies. |
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Slavery was legally abolished in 1865 by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
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In addition, the Ottoman Empire abolished slave trade from Africa in 1847 under British pressure. |
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The republic abolished the slave trade early in the 15th century and valued liberty highly. |
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As a result, the Court of Chancery Act 1842 was passed in the same year that abolished the office of the Six Clerks completely. |
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After 1852 the need to state the name of the form of action was also abolished. |
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Some states continue to use writ procedures, such as quo warranto, that have been abolished as a procedural matter in federal courts. |
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For instance, northern Nigeria did not outlaw slavery until 1936 whilst in other parts of Nigeria slavery was abolished soon after colonialism. |
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Military schools for officer training were limited to three, one school per arm, and conscription was abolished. |
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In that year, the Legislative Council was abolished and the Legislative Assembly was renamed the National Assembly. |
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In 1793, ruling power of the Nawabs were abolished and East India company took complete control of the city and the province. |
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After slavery was abolished, there was somewhat of a cultural crisis in the Southern states. |
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Many countries have abolished capital punishment either in law or in practice. |
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Most countries, including almost all First World nations, have abolished capital punishment either in law or in practice. |
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Latvia abolished de jure the death penalty for war crimes in 2012, becoming the last EU member to do so. |
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For example, Bhutan has abolished the death penalty, but Thailand still retains it, although Buddhism is the official religion in both. |
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Coke succeeded in establishing the Committee of Grievances, a body chaired by him that abolished a large number of monopolies. |
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The court was abolished in 1911 when the Supreme Court of New South Wales was granted the admiralty jurisdiction of the court. |
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The English Judicature Act passed 1873 through 1875 abolished the separate actions of trespass and trespass on the case. |
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The regions and districts were themselves abolished in 1996, under the Local Government etc. |
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It was ultimately abolished in 1984 when the Nova Scotia courts formally ended the practice. |
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He promulgated the Ordinance of 29 Nov 1853 which abolished the grand jury. |
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Even if juries were abolished, the layman continued to play an important role in the legal system throughout in Norway. |
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For example, Virginia adopted the English common law upon becoming independent, yet before England abolished trial by combat. |
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It was not until 1971, nearly six decades after the fall of the Qing dynasty, that the last of the Qing Code was abolished in Hong Kong. |
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Trials of peers in the House of Lords were abolished in 1948, and impeachment is obsolete, so this is unlikely to occur again. |
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The forms of action were abolished during the 19th century, but they have left an indelible mark on the law. |
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The jury system was abolished in 1969, and cases are decided by a judge alone, sometimes assisted by two assessors. |
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Upon the downgrading of the Straits Settlements, the offices of Governor and Resident Councillors were abolished. |
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The Court of Requests, the jurisdiction of which had been drastically reduced in the intervening years, was abolished. |
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Jury trials were abolished by the government in 1960 on the grounds they would be susceptible to media and public influence. |
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Brazilian states and Canadian provinces had all their upper houses abolished. |
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In 1958, when the Legislative Council was formed, it became bicameral until 1 June 1985 when it was abolished. |
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In 1999, the House of Lords Act abolished the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. |
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Dunwich was abolished as a constituency in 1832, when what remained of the village became part of the new Eastern Suffolk county division. |
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Today these laws have largely been abolished, although the homeless may not be able to register because they lack regular addresses. |
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Although the use of French in courts was abolished in 1731, Parliamentary practice was unaffected. |
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Arrestable offenses were abolished in 2006, and today crimes are classified as indictable or summary offenses. |
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Before being abolished in 2005, the National Assembly was a constitutional convention and electoral college for the president and vice president. |
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The United States abolished slavery during the Civil War, but labor union activists found the metaphor useful. |
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In 1870, Rockefeller abolished the partnership and incorporated Standard Oil in Ohio. |
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The borough of Kendal was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 to become a part of South Lakeland district of Cumbria. |
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In 1974 the urban district was abolished and since then the town has been administered by Keswick Town Council and Allerdale Borough Council. |
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The authority's area was coterminous with the civil parish of Penrith although when the council was abolished Penrith became an unparished area. |
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At the same time part of the county of Middlesex, which had been abolished by the legislation, was added to Surrey. |
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The review was abolished in favour of the Royal Commission on Local Government before issuing a final report. |
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The districts were abolished on 1 April 2009, the county council becoming a unitary authority. |
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Following the establishment of Cheshire East Council in 2009 the borough was abolished and the Mayoralty transferred to charter trustees. |
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Under the Local Government Act 1972, the town's autonomous county borough status was abolished. |
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The review was abolished in favour of the Royal Commission on Local Government before it was able to issue a final report. |
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When the GLC was abolished in 1986 they gained similar status to the unitary authorities. |
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Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners. |
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Refinements in the technique of vascular anastomosis have lessened but not abolished the risk. |
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District Judge Frank Johnson reapportioned the state and abolished the seat before Lee took office. |
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When Austria became part of Hitler's Third Reich, it was abolished in favour of the reichsmark. |
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Last summer, in-fighting among Republicans prevented New York City's World War II-vintage rent controls from being abolished. |
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The Act abolished Alaska's rule against perpetuities and authorized the creation of self-settled spendthrift trusts. |
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There were five caliphates under different dynasties until Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the last of them early last century. |
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Max Mullar rightly remarked that caste cannot be abolished in India and any attempt to abolish it would be one of the most hazardous operations. |
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Perhaps we could agree that poverty could and should be abolished by means of basic income guarantee via a negative income tax. |
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The regional management structure continued in parallel for a few years before it was abolished. |
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The SRA was in turn was abolished in 2006 in favour of direct control by the Department of Transport's Rail Group. |
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This was in turn replaced by the Strategic Rail Authority, which has since been abolished. |
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Akbar, a Mughal ruler for example, sought religious tolerance and abolished jizya. |
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Leicester became a county borough in 1889, although it was abolished with the rest in 1974 as part of the Local Government Act. |
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The NAACP fought for the de jure law to be upheld and for de facto segregation practices to be abolished. |
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The system has been in place since 2007 when graduate endowments were abolished. |
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The other National Boards were also abolished, but new bodies were created in each country to take over their functions. |
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The move brought Northern Ireland in line with the Scottish and Welsh system's which had already abolished charges. |
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The 2017 charter abolished the BBC Trust and replaced it with external regulation by Ofcom, with governance by the BBC Board. |
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In 2014, Nick Ross, a BBC presenter, stated that the licence fee was unfair and should be abolished. |
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In 2004 the army transformed itself into a fully professional organization and compulsory military service was abolished. |
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Mobile phone roaming charges were abolished in the European Union from 15 June 2017 What happens with them after Brexit is unclear. |
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The Lords of the Articles were abolished in 1690 as part of the revolutionary settlement. |
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The bishops were abolished by the Covenanters in 1638, when Parliament became an entirely lay assembly. |
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