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Abolished in sentence

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Well, the thing is that, the congestion charges, they were introduced first as a trial, so they were introduced in January and then abolished again at the end of July, followed by a referendum, and then they were reintroduced again in 2007, which of course was a wonderful scientific opportunity.
After the war, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution legally abolished slavery, while the 14th expanded citizenship and the 15th gave voting rights to formerly enslaved black men.
It has been 128 years since the last country in the world abolished slavery and 53 years since Martin Luther King pronounced his "I Have A Dream" speech.
So we abolished it.
But after the US abolished this system in 1971, the dollar became what is known as fiat money, meaning not linked to any external resource but relying instead solely on government policy to decide how much currency to print.
Though the caste system was Constitutionally abolished in 1950, it continued to shape social life in India, routinely marginalizing people of lower castes.
And once that happened, they were out in the city convincing everybody that child labor just had to be abolished.
Torture is a terrible thing, whether one is guilty or not; in the 18th Century, FrederickII, King of Prussia, abolished it for convicted murderers - though I must say, a life sentence for a child molester is far less than what I want to see.
Then, it is quite possible that only one of three identities is abolished and the other two remain and are able to rescue the individual from death.
Moreover, dialectic means that because of the third instance of synthesis the absolute opposition of the difference between thesis and antithesis is abolished.
Yes, outright apartheid was abolished, but all the apparatus of power was reserved by the minority whites, leaving the ANC government more or less impotent.
Pacifists want to understand war as a lawless condition that should be abolished.
Interest-rate caps were abolished in Britain only in 1835; the near-zero central-bank rates prevailing since 2009 are a current example of efforts to protect borrowers.
Yet Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates have all reduced or abolished various fuel subsidies in the last year.
Worship of the emperor was abolished, though Hirohito remained on his throne.
More than 130 countries have abolished the death penalty.
First, Macri’s government abolished exchange-rate controls and moved Argentina to a floating currency regime, with the Argentine peso allowed to depreciate by 60% against the US dollar in 2016.
They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of patients to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
Poland’s first post-communist finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, showed an amazed world how communism could be abolished and a market economy built almost instantly.
In 1999, when Laar became Prime Minister again, he abolished the tax on corporate profit, which was harming entrepreneurship.
By the 1990’s, the major subsidies and policies were abolished, and the industry was deregulated.
The "borders" between East and West that Ataturk largely abolished in Turkey must not be allowed to form again in the minds of a new generation.
In response, the government has urged managers to publish their incomes and abolished the bank secrecy laws that were once considered sacrosanct.
In the US itself, the 16 states that have abolished the death penalty generally have lower murder rates than those that retain it.
Nor did the Oxford experiment gauge whether a single dose of propranolol permanently abolished racial bias, or if regular doses could offer a more permanent “cure.”
Furthermore, EU export subsidies for agricultural products will be abolished from 2013.
But that antagonism reflected the personalization of politics achieved by Berlusconi, as well as an institutional feature that he abolished.
But Havel's domestic failures were more than offset by his foreign policy contributions: persuading America and Western Europe to enlarge NATO -an organization which, prior to 1989, he thought should be abolished, and advocating Czech membership in the European Union.
He appeared to have abandoned an active role in politics after his post was abolished in 1989.
Like the eurozone, the Schengen Area is an incomplete structure, because it abolished internal borders without creating a common mechanism for policing the external border.
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