abolition

Examples of abolishing

abolishing

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

Moreover, instead of abolishing referrals, it argued in favour of harmonisation of the national procedures.
Instead, they invoked these same values for abolishing cruel penalities.
This demonstrates that magnesium-free medium and picrotoxin are abolishing directional selectivity by different mechanisms.
Treatment with diazepam, however, had a further depressant action, practically abolishing feeding altogether.
The widening of music as a study is not to do with abolishing categories, it is to do with rethinking them and redrawing the boundaries.
Thus, cholesterol stabilizes the fluidity by abolishing the temperature influence.
These acts aimed at abolishing the zamindari system and giving occupancy rights in land to the tillers.
Arguing in favour of abolishing privilege, he adopted the view that theatrical enterprises were a form of industry.
Abolishing the means test should further encourage taking out private retirement income among low income groups such as domestic workers and informal sector workers.
Natural environments seem to be intolerable and abolishing for a great majority of microorganisms.
State and federal governments revised their criminal codes, effectively abolishing parole, imposing mandatory minimum sentences, and allowing juveniles to be incarcerated in adult prisons.
On the contrary, the fact such an imperial decree was made tells us that abolishing capital punishment in a particular case was exceptional.
Therefore, abolishing it without changing the conditions is bound to worsen the outcome.
In various cases, they established a second arrangement without abolishing the first.
It also recommended the integration of financial considerations into water management, with the implied necessity of abolishing selective pricing policies.
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