verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
abolish slavery (= officially end it )
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attempts to abolish slavery
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
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Also, the 20 percent. community charge payment should have been abolished completely this year.
■ NOUN
act
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The first Act to abolish Chantries, in 1545, had lapsed before it could take effect.
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The act did not abolish DISCs but limited their tax benefits and imposed an interest charge to tax-deferred earnings.
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An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower.
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Amendments to the Act have now abolished mandatory retirement altogether for most categories of workers.
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The Energy Act abolished the public sector's monopoly and allowed private companies to generate electricity as a main business.
action
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The survey found that 65 percent of the delegates favored abolishing affirmative action .
bill
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Ministers are seeking a compromise that would reassure rebel peers who rejected a bill abolishing the clause last week.
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The bill would abolish the distinction between domestic and international banning orders.
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The Bill to abolish the Scheme was meanwhile being rushed through Parliament, and a fresh ballot was needed for the strike.
control
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Another major challenge could come next year should voters approve a statewide ballot initiative aimed at abolishing mobile-home rent control .
council
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District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.
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The law abolished the Council of Ministers and replaced it with a 16-member Cabinet, headed by Byambasuren.
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Then Margaret Thatcher spoiled their fun by abolishing the council five years ago.
death
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Shall we soon abolish death and refer to some one dead as having a life problem?
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Laurent Fabius, the Socialist president of the parliament, urged Mr Jiang to abolish the death penalty.
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In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife.
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In 1969, Britain abolished the death penalty for murder.
decision
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One of its main decisions was to abolish the school's head boy and girl system.
department
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The only department which explicitly escapes unscathed is the one which Conservatives would most like to abolish: the Department of Energy.
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He proposes abolishing the Education Department .
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He is the self-proclaimed outsider who knows Washington; the former secretary of education who proposes to abolish the department .
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Can you abolish the Department of Agriculture?
distinction
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The higher education White Paper proposed abolishing the distinction between universities, polytechnics and other higher education establishments.
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The plan would introduce a single class of bearer shares, abolishing the distinction between registered and bearer shares.
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Names and addresses Two white papers on further and higher education included a proposal to abolish the distinction between universities and polytechnics.
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The bill would abolish the distinction between domestic and international banning orders.
education
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Will the Conservative promise to abolish education bring them a landslide victory?
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He proposes abolishing the Education Department.
government
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Fifteen years ago a Labour government in New Zealand abolished subsidies almost overnight.
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The parishes, for local government purposes, were abolished in 1929.
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Why will not the Government abolish the 20 percent. rule?
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Why do not the Government abolish the whole damn lot and give the people a free run for Christmas?
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Then, in 1986 the Thatcher government abolished the metropolitan counties.
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However, the Government nearly abolished it.
law
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But until the poor Law was abolished finally in 1948, the principle of financial support between-kin applied more broadly.
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Despite the Constabulary's evil reputation, it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation.
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The law abolished the Council of Ministers and replaced it with a 16-member Cabinet, headed by Byambasuren.
penalty
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Laurent Fabius, the Socialist president of the parliament, urged Mr Jiang to abolish the death penalty .
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In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife.
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In 1969, Britain abolished the death penalty for murder.
plan
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The Government announced on 19 February that it was abandoning its plan to abolish legal aid in asylum cases.
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Symington can wave good-bye to his plan to abolish income taxes.
proposal
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Presbyterian in religion, he was tolerant of other sects, and supported proposals to abolish tithes and remodel the universities.
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Names and addresses Two white papers on further and higher education included a proposal to abolish the distinction between universities and polytechnics.
punishment
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On the question whether on merits it would be desirable to abolish capital punishment Ministers were divided.
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In 1965, Britain abolished capital punishment .
rate
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This abolished the interest rate cartel between banks and at the same time removed quantitative restrictions upon the level of bank lending.
rule
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It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
school
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Post-war lateral thinking solved the problem by abolishing the school , but the building survived that, too.
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We will abolish museum charges for school parties.
service
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Within the civil service the Priestley pay bargaining system was abolished which linked civil service pay to rates in the private sector.
slavery
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With the elements as slaves, then for the first time in history slavery will be abolished .
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In the North, slavery was abolished .
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Even in 1832, slavery was abolished only within the old empire.
state
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The military first came to power in 1962 and abolished all state institutions in 1988.
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He would even abolish all state and local tariffs except property and sin taxes.
system
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The 20 percent. contribution will be abolished , the rebate system will be improved and single retired people will be protected.
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And he laid out welfare measures that he would put in place if Congress and the president abolish the current federal system .
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Industrial relations became strained when the post office abolished a flexible shift system at the SWindon branch.
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We must abolish the green currency system and the MCAs altogether.
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Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law.
tax
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We will abolish the poll tax Labour will abolish the poll tax immediately.
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He abolished onerous taxes and puritanically banned prostitution, opium, gambling, even liquor.
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We will abolish tax relief for private health insurance, whilst protecting the rights of existing policy-holders.
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To conservatives, it means abolishing the capital gains tax , lowering the top rate on millionaires.
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We will abolish the poll tax Labour will abolish the poll tax immediately.
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Symington can wave good-bye to his plan to abolish income taxes .
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The only trouble was that under questioning it became clear that one of his central aims was to abolish mortgage tax relief.
■ VERB
propose
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They propose to abolish the House of Lords.
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He proposes abolishing the Education Department.
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Just wait until we propose to abolish their pensions to save money.
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He is the self-proclaimed outsider who knows Washington; the former secretary of education who proposes to abolish the department.
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Arthur Dunkel, secretary-general, had proposed abolishing all quotas in favour of setting tariffs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He served over 27 years in prison for fighting to abolish white-only rule.
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The unpopular tax was finally abolished some ten years ago.
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Welfare programs cannot be abolished that quickly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1958 these were abolished and replaced by fourteen administrative districts.
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In 2001, the program would be abolished.
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No wonder they are being abolished.
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There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
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Thus, for example, customs duties, discriminatory internal taxation and quotas have been abolished.