abolition

Examples of abolished

abolished

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.
For these regions, this tax may now be abolished.
To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.
The reform in 1986 also abolished a special rate for families with low incomes, which had been adopted since 1978.
And yet, field studies are needed to retrieve this interpretation, which is forbidden, abolished, purified away by the top part.
In 1747, the system of land tenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.
But this does not mean that compulsion has been abolished.
Ordinance 9 of 1882 abolished the capitation tax and reinstated the export duty on plantation crops to finance the scheme.
The ' morning gift ' was abolished, except for childless wives.
He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.
However, this was almost precisely balanced by the 19 per cent of councils who relaxed or abolished disqualification rules in the same period.
The practice of deputization, which had rendered some posts essentially sinecures, was abolished, and meaningful salaries replaced compensation by fees.
The immediate rise was abolished in pregnant rabbits by thoracolumbar myelotomy or spinal anaesthesia, but not by bilateral nephrectomy.
The anterior thalamic head-direction signal is abolished by bilateral but not unilateral lesions of the lateral mammillary nucleus.
Traditional requirements of brotherhoods to prove the ' purity ' of their bloodline were abolished and the dues of the judges were reduced.
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