We buy debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, we abolish it.
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The same goes for duty-free shopping: if a decision has been taken to abolish it, then go ahead and abolish it.
D-cycloserine, is being tested not to enhance memory, but to abolish it.
Since the usury cap was an amendment to the state's constitution, only a statewide referendum or federal legislation, which would override the state's constitution, can abolish it.
Given how entrenched the slave trade was at the time, it is remarkable that a campaign to abolish it which began in 1787 succeeded only two decades later.
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But it has not yet even published its terms of reference, and wants to abolish the hereditaries before it reports.
In fact, the person who actually wrote that bill stated that it would abolish tax avoidance.
The most profound implication, however, is that it would abolish the ability to lie.
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And it also says it will abolish primary-school fees for all children in rural areas by 2007.
It would abolish the government's workplace laws, which remove the last vestiges of union power, and pour more money into education.
Also, it would abolish all federal taxes on gold and silver bullion in any form, and ban state-level taxes as well.
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If the Obama administration wants to advance justice, it would abolish farm-loan programs and stop letting politicians pick winners and losers in rural America.
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In transport , the famously antediluvian Ministry of Transport announced in late January that it would abolish its rigid capacity and price controls by 2001 at the latest.
In the same month, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced that it would abolish the outdated requirement by April 2009, in order to freshen up its mobile market.
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For a start, David Cameron promised that the benefit was safe for the life of this parliament, and campaigning to abolish or even limit it is hardly a vote winner.
We want and need to have economic growth as that is the only way we know of to reduce population growth (quite apart from the fact that we also need it to abolish human poverty, something of a desirable goal).
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This is actually a general truism: you cannot abolish something just by making it illegal.
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Given that it would not abolish what Amazon is doing therefore what Amazon is doing cannot be tax avoidance.
The Danish government has said it intends to abolish a tax on foods which are high in saturated fats.
Last month, the cathedral chapter voted to abolish his job and replace it with the new post of director of music.
It will also abolish the provisions, dating back to the 17th Century, which removed from the line of succession anyone who marries a Roman Catholic.
It aims to abolish warrant sales, a peculiarly Scottish system of debt recovery under which people, mainly the poor, have their possessions impounded and sold by court-appointed officials.
But it is due to hold another session next year, and Indonesians who want a democracy hope that it will then abolish the seats allocated to the soldiers.
We should abolish the capital gains tax because it effectively doubles taxes capital income.
Mr Connerly thinks that it is hard to abolish group preferences in one state alone.
But the agreement still leaves the controversial binominal electoral system intact (although it will not be in the constitution, making it slightly easier to abolish).
Graduates in recent years, for example, seem to have accepted far too readily the notion that clever financial engineering could somehow abolish risk and uncertainty, when it probably made things worse.
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