Abolishes Sentence Examples
The new law abolishes the use of tobacco products in public places.
The new constitution abolishes the soviets, dissolving the workers into the general mass of the population.
Sharon abolishes every conversation that involves unpleasant topics.
The Enterprise Act 2002, which is expected to come into force in mid 2003, abolishes administrative receiverships for new security.
The 13th amendment is the part of the United States Consitution that formally abolishes slavery.
It is an age of conscious selection as between ideal systems. Instead of necessitating a wasteful and precarious elimination of inadequate customs by the actual destruction of those who practise them - this being the method of natural selection, which, like some Spanish Inquisition, abolishes the heresy by wiping out the heretics one and all - progress now becomes possible along the more direct and less Comte's own term " fetishism " was most unfortunately misleading (see Fetishism).
Yet it is in this religion of Zeus that we see most clearly the achievement of progressive morality; Zeus himself punishes and abolishes the savage practice; the story related by Plutarch, 2 how a kid was substituted miraculously for Helen when she was led to the altar to be offered, is a remarkably close parallel to the biblical legend of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac.