They petitioned the government to abolish hanging.
St. Francis wanted to sanctify poverty, not to abolish it.
to abolish the privilege of the Japanese imperialism through fighting;
It takes a very long time to abolish classes.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish But to fulfill.
I asked them not to abolish AmeriCorps, as they had threatened to do.
He wants to forbid Banks from "speculating with clients' deposits", and to abolish ratings agencies.
The Beijing Public Security Bureau's decision to abolish this unfair system is a very wise one.
The arbitrary sponsor declared abruptly to abolish the annual racial rally.
On October 7, the Lebanese Government proposed to abolish the French position in the republic.
It has the power to do this because it changed the law to abolish elections to these posts in 2004.
Today was the fifth day of the march from the south to the north to abolish the national assembly.
One significant idea was to abolish flextime hours, which led to a massive savings on electricity and transportation costs.
Therefore, the proposal to abolish the national holiday, and to replace it with the freedom of individuals leave system.
If this country's desire to abolish nuclear weapons is genuime, it could raise the iron curtain for evermore.
And many of those firms that have been forced by shareholders to abolish the system are doing so only slowly.
A third Black Paper came out at this time, which defended school examinations against the progressive urge to abolish them.
And it is the basic demand of quality education to abolish science-humanities division for students' overall development.
It would be easy to return to gold and to abolish the Federal Reserve, and to do so at one stroke. All we need is the will.
It sticks to work on behalf of individual prisoners, and work to abolish specific practices, such as torture and the death penalty.
Its central content is to abolish benefit housing allocation, and at the same time to increase housing expense amounts in employee salaries.
Another way to cut spending substantially is to abolish or substantially cut the size of the Departments of Energy, Education, and Labor.
The existentialist is strongly opposed to a certain kind of secular ethics which would like to abolish God with the least possible expense.
A letter from many of its members, published in a newspaper on September 23rd, predicted that a pledge to abolish tuition fees would appear in the final document.
The socialist transformation of agriculture, which was designed to abolish the private ownership of small producers, was by its nature also directed against capitalism.
The jury system for civil cases has been abolished in Great Britain, and there are pressures to abolish it in the United States.
Many times, he criticized and criticized the favored ministers, and asked the court to abolish all improper favors of appointing officials within the ranks.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms 9f human life.
get rid of; to abolish; to eliminate; to reform; to cut out; to redress; expel; to dismiss; to remove sb. from office; to depose; to cashier
The countermeasures are as following: to abolish court's authority of civil retrying, to limit accuser's authority of counterplea for civil retrial, to set up civil retrial suing action, and to reconstruct the reasons and administering of civil retrial.
Only those who go to work, such as vacation and business owners who (want to leave wages to reduce costs) that we wish to abolish the Labor Day Golden Week.
Therefore, this decree is not intended to abolish slavery, but to limit the release of some "sellers", even though it is beneficial to liberate the productive forces of society.
It is the target of the household registration reform to abolish the distinction between farmers and city dwellers, to found unified household system and to realize the migration freedom.
Shortly after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, we began to stress the need to abolish the actual system of life tenure in leading Party and government posts.
In order to show the determination to abolish Jinyi Wei, Zhu Yuanzhang also burned the Jinyi Wei's torture devices in public, in order to show that he never reopened.
It has limited the ability of national watchdogs to intervene in cross-border financial mergers and backed away from threats to abolish "interchange fees" charged by credit CARDS and retail Banks.
The Ebionites claimed that Jesus was horrified by cruelty to animals and that one of the primary aspects of his mission was to abolish the practice of ritual slaughter.
In the 1920's the Shanghai banking industry began to ne- gotiate with the native banking industry to abolish the silver tael and establish the yuan as the sloe monetary unit. However,the native banking industry resisted throughout.
He adopts a series of graveness measure:Oppose the personality cult and strengthen the collective leadership; Reform thecentral leadership system and take the lead to abolish the lifelong system ofleadership;
Unlike in places like California and Switzerland, referendums are extremely rare in Greece, with the last such vote held in 1974 when the country voted to abolish the monarchy.
Yet no matter how far into the country I have gone, I have found the central government's decision to abolish dual pricing for foreigners and Chinese in effect everywhere.
It was Zeng Guofan's own decision to abolish the Hunan Army, but it was only because of opposition and the fact that the problem of arrears could not be solved that it was postponed.
USA and Britain eyewitnessed the firm determination and unflinching will in the struggles China upholded her own independence and freedom, and they also came to be aware of the great strategic value. Therefore, they had to make concession to China and agreed to abolish those unequal treaties.
