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George's intention was not to abolish private property but to coordinate the share-out of land and natural resources that belong to all.
He pointed out that many governments have promised to abolish it but nothing has happened to date.
Pennsylvania was the first U.S. state to abolish capital punishment for all crimes except first-degree murder.
If it decides to confirm this, the commission can direct the Government to abolish, or alter, the aid.
The aim is not to abolish state power, but to prevent its encroachment upon those matters which are best left to civil society.
The three-fifths compromise ensured Southern states enough votes in the House to stave off attempts to regulate or abolish slavery.
To admit that, would be to turn concurrent power into exclusive power, and so abolish the distinction between them.
The president promised to abolish emergency laws and create an electoral system where all parties have a chance to participate.
But to overlook the hard data is not to abolish them, and the inferences are not removed by being unacknowledged.
Reactionary attempts to abolish or subvert parliamentary democracy must be resisted.
If the council can afford to do this, why not simply abolish the charges and remove the new yellow lines?
The Tory party, of course, have moaned about the expense and hinted that they might abolish Sure Start altogether.
Chancellor has said he will abolish hospital accommodation charges for pensioners.
The movements to abolish the trade and emancipate the slaves gathered momentum.
The grand coalition also agreed to abolish numerous tax benefits for ordinary earners.
She argues that Cranmer and the later revisers of the Book of Common Prayer did not abolish reservation for communion with the sick.
To a mammoth crowd he spoke in Hindustani about the Government's determination to abolish both untouchability and landlordism.
On September 28 Denmark votes on whether to abolish its currency, the krone, in favour of the euro currently used by 12 European countries.
Experts see this as a possible move ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to abolish the labor camps in the country.
When the rightist government came in, it decided to abolish this federal position altogether.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The use of images was commonly received in the east, when the Emperor Leo the isaurian, resolved to abolish the practice.
They sometimes so swathe the peaks with light as to abolish their definition.
To abolish the superstition, the misrule, the vice, the misery of this world.
Copernicus, by making the sun the centre, had been able to simplify a good deal of this, and to abolish the equant.
Then there was a debate upon the proposition to abolish the mission to Rome.
It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
The printing-press did not abolish the penman, but it certainly spoiled his trade.
But it was not enough to abolish liberty by conjuring up the spectre of demagogy.
He desires to abolish temperament by additional keys, and has constructed an enharmonic organ with forty sounds in the octave.
To correct this vitiation, to abolish these disastrous hates and misconceptions, elaborate learning was not needed.
But shall we abolish literature, because it is not unaccompanied with inconveniencies?
I had the honour to abolish nosebands in the 2nd Life Guards.
If that which is should therefore remain, why abolish the slavery of men?
No proposition to abolish it ever was made in the Legislature thereafter.
There is a renewed agitation of late to abolish Latin from our curricula.
He was firm to the end in his effort to abolish the slave trade.
What he wants to abolish is the repressive, not the productive state.
What they did do was to break up and practically abolish the patriciate.
England's top clubs are planning to abolish relegation from Premiership One this season and expand the top League from 12 to 14 teams.
Where are we to find the means to abolish and reabsorb the evil?
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