Example Sentences

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A majority of economists polled by Reuters expect the central bank will abolish the 10-year yield control scheme by the end of 2024.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2023

Announcer: Representatives of the peoples of the world must together make laws, which will abolish war, laws, which will hold the individual in all lands responsible for crime against World Peace.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2023

California will abolish this ceiling in two steps.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2022

The Pacific nation of Kiribati, which in 2008 created the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, then the world’s biggest marine protected area, announced this week it will abolish the reserve and allow fishing.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2021

When the last abolishes the relation between parent and child, the first will abolish the relation between master and servant.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.