How to Use abolition in a Sentence

abolition

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  • This is the bind that leaves many people, when first encountering abolition and ideas about the end of policing, asking: What about the rapists?
    — Isabel Cristo, The New Republic, 6 July 2020
  • While carceral feminism obscures and props up the violent power of the state, abolition feminism unearths the rot at the core.
    — Isabel Cristo, The New Republic, 6 July 2020
  • In this moment, bold conversations about complete abolition of all systems that oppress our communities have emerged once again.
    — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, 27 June 2020
  • Thousands have demanded the abolition of the police, and for the release of people incarcerated across the country.
    — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
  • Advertisement Jurado, through a spokesperson, has described abolition as an aspirational goal, one that would take many years and many steps.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The shift in power set into motion by the black death—the opportunity that came when the world split open—led to money replacing obligation and the abolition of serfdom in much of the West.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • While reform requires us to affirm the current system and surrender our imagination to the police, abolition challenges us to use our best thinking to build a better society.
    — Tracey Ross, Essence, 18 June 2020
  • Regardless of these copaganda displays, though, the abolition movement is not about singular officers and their intentions.
    — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
  • The second must-do is the abolition of the debt ceiling.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • After the Civil War, the abolition of slavery caused those in the U.S. to take a fresh look at workers’ rights.
    — Russ Bynum, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The game was facing strong criticism and even the threat of abolition.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
  • This process continued until the abolition of slave trade in the 1900s.
    — Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
  • To be clear, the death of police officers is not what abolition is.
    — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Some favor not only the abolition of bail, but of prisons and the police.
    — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, there were more slaves than colonists at the Cape during the century preceding the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
    — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
  • But there’s a long tradition at TNR of urging the abolition of the monarchy—and even advising Charles to be the one to do the deed.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Today this is no longer the case—the prison abolition movement has gone mainstream.
    — Michelle Kuo, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • To say that the abolition of the Affordable Care Act somehow equals the end of democracy is the wrong way of framing things.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
  • Now, Democrats have made the abolition of the filibuster a litmus test for their party.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • With the abolition of the Paramount decrees, the court has opened the door for history to repeat itself.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The girl’s death intensified a debate in England over the abolition of the slave trade.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Reuben is careful not to take a stand on abolition himself.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020
  • As long as there’s a royal family, there will be pomp and pageantry and polls about abolition.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, Hamilton threw away his shot to take a stand on abolition early and often.
    — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The amendment was the official abolition of slavery in the United States.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Bass was born in South Carolina in 1874, less than a decade after the abolition of slavery.
    — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The abolition of the 45pc rate had become a distraction from our mission to get Britain moving.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • In 2021, its representatives called for the full abolition of the law.
    — Javier Bastardo, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In 2009, lawmakers ratified the U.N.’s two covenants on human rights, one of which calls for the abolition of the death penalty.
    — Yian Lee / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Both were ministers who left their pulpits to fight for abolition, leading two of the first Black regiments at a time when the Army would not commission Black officers.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

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