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In France, the offense was abolished when Napoleon introduced his new penal code in 1810.
For the time being, my only wish is to greet a man who, with a throw of the dice, abolished chance and the hazards of the road before him to become Europe’s youngest president.
In the final years of the Clinton administration, Congress mistakenly abolished the US Information Agency and gave its tasks to a new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy in the State Department.
Since February’s inconclusive general election, Italian lawmakers have managed to agree on only one thing: the reelection of 88-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano, which makes him the first two-term president since Italy abolished the monarchy in 1946.
Such a review of remittances should look into restrictive practices that could be abolished, and ask whether official assistance should be adapted to the needs of this informal yet crucially important aid network.
In 1948, after a short civil war, President José Figueres Ferrer abolished the military.
In the United Kingdom, “defamatory libel” was for many centuries a criminal offense, but it fell into disuse and was abolished in 2010.
He suggested, among other things, that designated-senators, an anti-democratic legacy of the military regime, should be abolished, and that Chile's obligatory military draft should come to an end.
Exclusive partnerships between national postal systems and money-transfer companies should also be abolished.
And yet the very existence of capital punishment will remain a stain on the country until it is abolished.
According to Amnesty International, 142 countries have abolished the death penalty.
But the framers of South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution, which entered into force in 1997, held their ground and the practice was abolished.
The fate of that first democratic parliament was ignominious – it functioned for only half its term and was abolished by Yeltsin's Russian parliament.
She won the sobriquet “Iron Lady” for her decisive leadership in the Falklands War; yet most of her battles were fought against sections of her own people – the “enemy within,” like the miners whom she crushed in the strike of 1984-1985, or Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council, which she abolished in 1986.
Not since the Turkish Republic abolished the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 has any Muslim group in control of territory made such a bid.
For example, Wade at one point abolished Senegal’s senate, only to reinstate it after realizing that it could be put to use as a place to reward political allies.
It abolished only one small agency, the unlamented Office of Thrift Supervision, and added another, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a body so little loved by the current administration that one wonders about its longevity.
The tax break for “carried interest,” by which hedge-fund managers’ income is taxed at low capital-gains rates, should be abolished (as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton favors), and the exemption for the estate tax (originally expanded by George W. Bush) could be reduced.
For example, since Portugal abolished all criminal penalties for drug use in 2001, drug use has not exploded, as some predicted, and has even declined among some groups.
The current administration cannot afford to walk into the trap set by Cheney, and be held responsible for another possible terrorist attack just because it abolished torture.
Child labor should be abolished.
The Roma minority first appeared in Romania in the 14th century, but only in 1856 was its slavery abolished!
When slavery was abolished in the mid-nineteenth century, the terms of these rulers’ partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.
In addition, Ukraine should reintroduce the simplified tax code for small businesses that Yanukovych abolished.
Indeed, almost all taboos that existed after the eruption of the crisis have now been abolished.
Or if somebody told me that "I love Swedes, but Sweden should be abolished."
Ultimately, the Reform Act of 1832 abolished the rotten boroughs and extended the franchise to the new middle class (the working class and women would have to wait).
Dozens of superfluous inspection agencies have been abolished, significantly reducing the regulatory burden.
Brazil’s move resembles Argentina’s convertibility plan of 1991, which abolished all currency controls and pegged the Argentine peso to the US dollar.
This model, unique to Bangladesh and Pakistan in South Asia, was introduced to eliminate abuse of administrative resources by the incumbent government during election campaigns but was abolished by a constitutional change that the Supreme Court upheld in 2011.
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