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As far as Hollywood is concerned, the day-to-day existence of unabolished slavery has been what welfare reformists called the live rail: don't touch it.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2013

Laws made for the first state of the society continue unabolished, when the general form of life is changed.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

And with this further word of the unabolished law—"This if thou do not, this if thou art not, thou shalt die."

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John