That's a newer issue -- the abolishment of the death penalty.    From Wordnik.com.  ['There Are No Limits'] Reference

I mean, would they be the people blocking the abolishment of it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2004] Reference

They do not know that Buchanan called for the abolishment of the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menachem Rosensaft: MSNBC's Deafening Silence on Patrick Buchanan's Association with Holocaust Deniers] Reference

Africa, whose partial abolishment you are this day convened to celebrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference

The best idea he has proposed so far is the abolishment of the wealth tax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Club Med Chills] Reference

SHUBERT: They pray to witness instead the abolishment of all nuclear weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006] Reference

In November of 2000, Hillary herself called for abolishment of the Electoral College.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Hillary Supporter Says She's Showing "Desperation"] Reference

England, at the same time, opened the way for a gradual abolishment of the usury laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

I highly recommend the movie 'Amazing Grace' (link), which is about the abolishment of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

The abolishment of VAT on all staple foods, "all basic necessities of life" and medical services.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

LINCOLN has appeared in favor of adopting a plan which may lead to the gradual abolishment of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Industrial unions are the only social apparatus that will make abolishment of wage slavery possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Conspiracy] Reference

Reasonable arguments have been made for AID's absorption into the State Department, or for its abolishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report On The Agency For International Development Pt] Reference

In fact, the proposal could lead to the abolishment of just one agency -- the Office of Thrift Supervision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Details Set for Remake of Financial Regulations] Reference

Advocacy efforts by Equality Now and the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association led to the abolishment of that law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maria Eitel: In the Face of Extraordinary Risk, Three Girls Demand Justice] Reference

This means, inter alia, abolishment of the annual merit rating and of management by objective, management by the numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Myers: The Transformation is Everybody's Job. Classic Jack from W. Edwards Deming] Reference

It was evident that this Assembly must take a definite position with reference to the question of the abolishment of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

European military ideas, and advocated the abolishment in the United States of military dress and titles and all militia laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference

I put in legislation in response to our beloved Pat Moynihan calling for the abolishment of the CIA, which formed a commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2004] Reference

AID's abolishment or absorption would not cure this central fact about the laws now covering its bilateral assistance programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report On The Agency For International Development Pt] Reference

The Commissioner of the General Land Office recommends the abolishment of the office of Receiver of Public Moneys for the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But much as Lundy loathed the business of the slave-dealers and slave-drivers, he then had no idea of attempting its abolishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

It also implies socialism -- a scientific socialism which is the abolishment of the exploitation of human beings by human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference

We must first work on the total abolishment of nuclear weapons and gradually work up to total demilitarization throughout the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Message for the New Millenium] Reference

Formerly such promotions terminated membership in the original Inn; but since the abolishment of the rank of sergeant at the English bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference

I think that if you look back to Hurricane Andrew, after Hurricane Andrew, the same kinds of calls for the abolishment of FEMA were heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2006] Reference

The abolishment of the death penalty had, however, contributed to a "psychosis" among criminal elements that they could do as they pleased.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Within the last three years, twenty-three of the princes just alluded to, have issued orders for its abolishment throughout their dominions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.] Reference

One was the abolishment of the death penalty for forgery; another was the modification of the usury laws; the third was the re-charter of the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

It need scarcely be said the very existence of these causative microbes, much less any mode of cure by their abolishment, was quite unknown to former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Those who favored slavery's immediate or speedy abolishment became known as Radicals, while those advocating its prolongation were called Conservatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

CUI WEN ZHI, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY STUDENT: As I know, the U.S. government had been given 10 years 'time to prepare for today's complete barrier abolishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2005] Reference

Before I argue for pragmatism, let me argue against it: the abolishment of slavery by the British parliament was one of the most impragmatic political acts in human history.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

Turkish officials insist the country is on the right path, citing the abolishment of capital punishment, economic growth, low inflation, and granting minority groups more rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006] Reference