Example sentences for: abolishing

How can you use “abolishing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In this experiment, different methods of impairing or abolishing the function of CRH-R1 were used on different mouse genetic backgrounds.

  • Jonathan Schell's cover story--the longest article in The Nation 's history--updates his 1982 book The Fate of the Earth . The article's conclusion: We should push for "horizontal" disarmament (taking weapons off alert, partially dismantling them) rather than "vertical" disarmament (abolishing weapons altogether).

  • The new King resumed the ways of the two previous monarchs, abolishing laws against adultery and prostitution and taking up with his half sister; but powerful interests, particularly those of the flourishing foreign business community (which would be increasingly dominated by the descendants of the first missionaries), were intent on usurping the throne, in effect if not in name.

  • Army abolishing the affirmative action program that "produced" Colin Powell.

  • See also Thomas Geoghegan's The Secret Lives of Citizens [click here to buy the book], which makes an excellent case for abolishing the U.S.


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