Examples of abolition in a Sentence

the abolition of a law calls for the abolition of the death penalty

Recent Examples on the Web Cullors says her own definition of abolition has changed over the past few years. — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022 As too few note, the Constitution permitted Congress to restrict the US slave trade short of abolition before 1808. — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2022 The new doc comes on the heels of the abolition of Britney Spears' 13-year restrictive conservatorship examined in a previous two-episode installment of the series. — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021 For Purnell, the argument and practice of abolition cannot be divorced from how and where capital and resources are directed. — Kovie Biakolo, Essence, 5 Oct. 2021 The annual June 19 anniversary of the abolition of slavery, known as Juneteenth, was declared a federal holiday this year. — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021 This Fall’s Open Edu semester will explore themes of abolition, dismantling toxic masculinity, white supremacy, and the correlation to the beauty industry. — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021 And such feminists tend to be dismissive of nonbinary people, who, in their refusal of gender distinction, have a good claim to being the truest vanguard of gender abolition. — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021 For many, Emancipation Day — a commemoration of the abolition of slavery across the British empire on August 1, 1834 — begs the question: What does freedom mean for Black people across the diaspora? — Huda Hassan, refinery29.com, 30 July 2021 See More

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