The cancellation or suspension of something by a decision of an authority.
1 The phrases included the ' abolition of distance' and the 'disappearance of frontiers'.
2 In some, actual abolition was comparatively easy; in others, it was difficult.
3 The development comes four weeks after the abolition of domestic water charges.
4 The second revolution was the civil war and the abolition of slavery.
5 Lincoln led a war effort which resulted in the abolition of slavery.
6 In spite of its limitations, it was the actual abolition of slavery.
7 This discovery coincided with the suppression of abolition propaganda in the South.
8 The horrors of slavery gave rise to abolition movements, especially in Britain.
9 Meanwhile, those on the right maintain that full abolition is the answer.
10 The total and immediate abolition had been attempted; and then the gradual.
11 She also announced the abolition of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
12 The village community; its struggles for resisting its abolition by the State.
13 The former, accordingly, in the month of February abolition of the Slave-trade.
14 And this Order in Council paved the way for the total abolition .
15 Church leaders called for the rule's abolition at a February Vatican summit.
16 It is uncontroversial in concept, with no major party advocating its abolition .
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Abolition в диалектах
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