On the matter of taxes, Republicans favor measures like a lower capital gains tax and a reduction or even abolition of taxes on inheritances.

In turn, some European states favored abolition of duty-free shopping as soon as 1993.

Washington, who owned hundreds of slaves, wrote privately that he favored abolition, but never proposed it publicly.

Around the same time and for the next several decades, serfdom was losing popular support, and more and more nobles favored abolition.

Those favoring abolition wanted to free enslaved blacks and provide them with the chance to go to Africa.

He favors stronger rent-control laws and abolition of tax abatements for luxury housing.

"But if I understand you correctly, you freed our slaves as a military necessity, and not because you favored abolition in principle."

Radical Republicans, who favored abolition, were overjoyed.

He strongly favors abolition of the designated hitter, and he'll tell anyone who asks.

Black members of the City Council, which stands to gain power if the board disappears, favor abolition.