Parliament has recently expressed its wish to abolish the law penalizing blasphemy.

Repeated attempts to abolish the law have proved to be unsuccessful.

This means a yes vote means you want to retain the law, whereas voting yes in a popular referendum means you want to abolish the law.

In 2008, for the first time, the split became 5-4 in favour of abolishing the law.

He would advocate a complete reformation of the land laws, and would abolish the laws of primogeniture and entail.

More: he abolished the post entirely.

It vests huge powers in the president, abolishes the post of prime minister and subjugates parliament.

However, vigorous grassroots campaigns are being conducted in at least four of these areas to abolish the posts because they have too much power and are too expensive.

There have been campaigns in four of the local authorities with directly elected mayors to hold referendums to abolish the posts.

This they did by the rather unpleasant tactic of abolishing his post to save expenses.

The reform should be to abolish the system.

But to abolish the system as a useful revenue-raising exercise would make excellent economic sense.

Therefore, we have decided to abolish the system after much discussion.

It abolished the system of agency licensing, so that agencies can operate freely, unless inspectors find violations and close them down.

He abolished the system of punishment by deducting fines from men's pay over a period of months or even years.

The government will abolish this tax.

He used the reduction in borrowing to abolish his tax credit changes, protect more public spending, and commit 12 billion to infrastructure while leaving his 10 billion budget surplus untouched.

Abolishing the tax collection network would consign the federal administration to penury.

Does this mean that commission has been abolished completely?

Turnpike roads subsequently became increasingly unpopular, and were abolished completely in 1881.

Some upper houses have been abolished completely (see below); others have had their powers reduced by constitutional or legislative amendments.

He had come to believe that armaments would never be abolished completely but that treaties could perhaps maintain military balances.

However, as the armed forces had been gearing towards a complete professional army system, the government had promised that the mandatory military service would be cut or even abolished completely.

And one of the biggest ground rules has just been abolished entirely.

The conditions under which 'provocation' can be entered as a plea in mitigation have also been severely reduced - though not abolished entirely.

The cuts to working tax credits were not phased in slowly, but abolished entirely.

Ultimately a number of these proposals were either altered or abolished entirely.

In 1904 mounted service was abolished entirely and the last horses were sold off.

Government will never be able to abolish poverty simply by handing over more and more money.

We dedicated the decade that began in the year 1940 to the battle to abolish poverty.

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It appears that to this day those who wish to abolish the monarchy are unable to agree on what might replace it.

Then his subjects took his face off the national currency, renationalised his palaces and decided to abolish the monarchy.

The coalition government has already passed a resolution to abolish the monarchy, subject to its candidates winning an inevitable majority in this week's constituent assembly election.

The amendments would abolish the monarchy and establish a republic.

Opinion whether it was the right time to abolish the monarchy was more evenly divided, with 43% disagreeing and 41% agreeing.