"abolish" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All countries in Europe have now abolished "marriage by habit and repute", with Scotland being the last to do so in 2006.
- "We must abolish marriage," said the second.
- In 1894, the Mysore kingdom passed laws to abolish marriage of girls below the age of eight and in 1923 provided women the right to franchise.
- They decide to abolish love and marriage, which they consider as yet another form of female subjection, and thus forbid Lina from seeing her lover Persinet.
- Through one character after another, Shaw puts forward arguments for polygamy, for polyandry and for abolishing marriage altogether.
- The free-love movement, which Whitman watched closely, wanted to abolish marriage and re-establish all relationships on the basis of "passional attraction."
- In 1921, he created a law that abolished forced marriage, child marriage, bride price, and put restrictions on polygamy, a common practice among households in Afghanistan.
- He establishes a police force, abolishes marriage, and has the state assume ownership of the women and children.
- All other European jurisdictions having long abolished "marriage by habit and repute", Scotland became the last to do so in 2006.
- Every so often some idiot tries to abolish marriage.
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