Whenever any form of government becomes destructive . . . it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); American statesman; third U.S. president (1801-1809); wrote Declaration of Independence]
The head of MI5 is right to warn that we cannot "abolish". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And Obama did not "abolish" waterboarding or other methods. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
But Cameron has repeated this commitment to "abolish" the HRA several times since. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
You cannot "abolish" money without eliminating the necessity of symmetric exchange. From Wordnik.com. [P2P Foundation] Reference
If so, I move to insert in his proposition after the word "abolish" the words "or impair.". From Wordnik.com. [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference
And the Patriots did "abolish" English rule here, leading to the creation of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It will be seen that the Act of 1899 does not undertake to "abolish" the School Board of Education. From Wordnik.com. [Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900] Reference
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to 'abolish' carbon usage and sees a direct comparison to the end of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
The level of absolute ignorance regarding the things people propose to "abolish" in regard to rights is astonishing. From Wordnik.com. [BlueOregon] Reference
Quoted in 1Co 15: 54, in support of the resurrection. swallow up ... in victory -- completely and permanently "abolish" (2Ti. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
There will be calls to restrict-or even abolish-the NEA. From Wordnik.com. ['The Nature Of The Beast'] Reference
But no Pentagon order can abolish these fundamental attitudes. From Wordnik.com. [War And The Second Sex] Reference
It would abolish the malevolent and unnecessary Press Ministry. From Wordnik.com. [Russia: Media Turmoil] Reference
And anonymity is one thing that the next wave of computing will abolish. From Wordnik.com. [If All The World's A Computer...] Reference
He wants to abolish the INS and create a new and more efficient bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress America] Reference
Having promised to abolish the Education Department, Reagan kept it and fed it. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Geniality] Reference
Meantime, Ecevit intends to encourage Parliament to abolish capital punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Ocalan's Trials] Reference
The superrich lost their chance to abolish the estate tax on money left to heirs. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Perception Gap] Reference
Congress is not going to suddenly transform itself and abolish pork-barrel polities. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
New Jersey is trying to abolish the death penalty because the appeals are too costly. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: America's Outspoken Olympian] Reference
I visited Brazil last year, which was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery. From Wordnik.com. ['I Feel the Weight of That History'] Reference
Still, there is a growing push to abolish the law altogether -- and westerners are joining it. From Wordnik.com. [The Freedom To Shop] Reference
Is that a good reason to abolish the estate tax, before addressing any other public-policy issue?. From Wordnik.com. [The Estate Of The Nation] Reference
Progress is being made in reducing medical mistakes, but we're never going to abolish them entirely. From Wordnik.com. [Disclose, Apologize, Explain] Reference
The government is investing in computers and plans to abolish the pass-fail university entrance exam. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Think] Reference
The first is that they are a huge distraction, requiring that we abolish the current income-tax system. From Wordnik.com. [Call It The Flaky Tax] Reference
Governments must abolish school fees, hire more qualified teachers and provide textbooks and meals in schools. From Wordnik.com. [Education, the Song of Hope] Reference
Or will he ignore the outcome and abolish democracy, as his good friend Fidel Castro did in Cuba in the 1960s?. From Wordnik.com. [VENEZUELA: A LATIN ENIGMA] Reference
Go back in time and keep the Holocaust from happening, prevent slavery and retroactively abolish child sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Unhappiness] Reference
All four pieces have the same size, to abolish the "hierarchy" between the drinks and what's used to soften them. From Wordnik.com. [Designs On Tea] Reference
And neither Dole nor Newt Gingrich plans to push a bill Dole introduced to abolish all federal preference programs. From Wordnik.com. [Redrawing The Color Lines] Reference
The Republicans have come a long way from the days when Ronald Reagan wanted to abolish the Department of Education. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: His Mind On Education] Reference
To become a world-class power, won't India have to abolish trade barriers, reduce tariffs and abandon its protectionism?. From Wordnik.com. ['India Is Open Globally'] Reference
Last year the University of Minnesota was about to abolish all tenure as well, but the effort was stalled by faculty protests. From Wordnik.com. [Not Much Of An Honor] Reference
Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: Why does a vote to abolish the slave trade, made by British politicians 200 years ago, still matter today?. From Wordnik.com. ['I Feel the Weight of That History'] Reference
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