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How to use the word Abolishing in a Sentence?

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In the state of Florida, our education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching black history, all of the important things, that’s part of our core curriculum, this course on Black history. What are one of, what’s one of the lessons about? Queer theory? Now who would say that an important part of Black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids, and so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that’s a political agenda.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There’s a huge shortage, people talk about abolishing the coroner system, but it’s really not feasible. I think we need to train coroners. That’s what will improve the system.

Kathryn Pinneri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I honestly think she was playing to the gallery back then, whether she was talking about decriminalizing drugs or abolishing the monarchy, i think she is someone who plays to the gallery with whatever audience she is talking to, and I genuinely don't know if she ever believes anything she says, then or now.

Neil Fawcett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have an extreme MAGA group in the Republican Party that has no real plan to bring down inflation, i think that choice [is] between a party that’s standing up to the special interests and delivering change, and… an extreme party, a party that’s talking about, well, some of the leaders talking about abolishing Social Security and Medicare every five years.

Ron Klain

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We will achieve the goal of abolishing ownership limits in securities, futures, life insurance for foreign investors by 2020, a year earlier than the original schedule of 2021.

Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The moral leadership the governor is showing puts us in line with other countries and other states in terms of abolishing the death penalty.

Ellen Kreitzberg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If the United States can be more proactively flexible on that, it may draw other denuclearization steps on top of abolishing the Yongbyon facilities, and expedite talks on setting up a liaison office and replacing the armistice with a peace treaty.

Cheong Seong-Chang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Their favorite adjective is Kennedyesque, they all talk about his hair and his teeth, they talk about no substance, nothing about his record, they don’t talk about his being open to abolishing [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], they don’t talk about his wanting to impeach the president.

Peter Doocy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

My opponent has literally called ICE' fascist,' yet he refuses to take the stance of abolishing it, which, to me, is morally incomprehensible. Words mean something, and the moment you have identified something as fascist, that with it carries a moral responsibility to abolish it, that's what I'm talking about when we say that norms have been eroded : that we literally have elected officials arguing to basically retain fascist agencies. And that's on the left.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Abolishing ICE would leave these drugs in our communities to cause more devastation.

White House

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The only way that you beat a machine is with a movement and the only way that this movement can sustain is if we start in good faith on shared values of a New York citizen. I think that is where Cynthia and I come together, i very much value the work and the impact that she has already made, due to the fact that she can go on‘The View’andtalk about abolishing ICE. What we can do is tag-team this message so that every community can hear it that needs to hear it. And I think that that kind of solidarity across lines is very, very powerful.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Abolishing negative gearing, which has been part of our housing markets for a century, and increasing capital gains tax, would clearly have a more substantial and dislocating impact, placing more than just our credit rating at risk.

Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It's exciting to watch Democratic candidates spend what money they do have tearing each other apart in primaries over issues like single-payer health care and abolishing ICE.

Jesse Hunt

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I am not calling for abolishing the sanctions. But what I don't want to see is that we formally maintain the sanctions and behind the sanctions, everyone is signing big deals with Russia, visiting, meeting people who are blacklisted, this is the reality today, so I think it is fair to discuss.

Miroslav Lajcak

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We could have a case where you could have a Republican president who believes in abolishing the capital gains tax, congress says no, and he then prioritizes IRS collections and says don't collect the capital gains tax, doing exactly what Obama is doing.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

That is conservatism, to give people a chance to live out their God-given potential, and because some people say they don't like my tone or because I question abolishing Medicare or Medicaid, that that's not conservative? Listen, I have a plan to improve Medicare and Medicaid. I have done it in Ohio. To say that we're going to deport 10 or 11 million people and divide families, that's just nutty.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I do not favor abolishing it, however.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You know Ben wants to knock out Medicare. I heard that over the weekend, he wants to abolish Medicare. And I think, you know, abolishing Medicare. I don't think you're going to get away with that one. And it's actually a program that's worked.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

From the dawn of this country, at every stage, America has enjoyed God's providential blessing, over and over again, when we faced impossible odds, the American people rose to the challenge. You know, compared to that, repealing Obamacare and abolishing the IRS ain't all that tough.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

Sigmund Freud

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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