When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

Although many nations have abolished capital punishment, over 60 % of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, such as the People's Republic of China, India, the United States of America and Indonesia, the four most-populous countries in the world, which continue to apply the death penalty ( although in India, Indonesia and in many US states it is rarely employed ).

I will show you a great many who have become worse through following it .... The solemn prayers of the Church are abolished, but now there are very many who never pray at all .... I have never entered their conventicles, but I have sometimes seen them returning from their sermons, the countenances of all of them displaying rage, and wonderful ferocity, as though they were animated by the evil spirit .... Who ever beheld in their meetings any one of them shedding tears, smiting his breast, or grieving for his sins ?...

The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court or passing any considerable legislation ; it abolished many of the relief programs when unemployment diminished during World War II.

Slavery was abolished in 1896, but many of the 500, 000 liberated slaves remained in their former masters ' homes as servants.

Monarchies have existed throughout the world, although in recent centuries many states have abolished the monarchy and become republics.

Unlike Internet market the state of the mobile market in the country is very poor, while coverage is not really an issue all carriers practice archaic methods that carriers in many developed countries have long since abolished, general prices are very high compared to other CIS and even EU countries with no change in this segment in many years in fact in some cases the prices have even increased, mobile Internet access is in no better condition with very high prices and very low monthly caps compared to extremely well developed and cheap wired Internet access.

Names of many institutions ( including the army ) were stripped of the " royal " adjective and the Raj Parishad ( a council of the King's advisers ) was abolished, with his duties assigned to the Parliament itself.

In Kamakura Era, many sects ( Zen, Pureland and Nichiren ) that originated from Tendai sect abolished vinaya entirely.

When one party rule was first abolished in 1991, many expected a more democratic future for Zambia.

Chirac's cabinet sold many public companies, renewing with the liberalisation initiated under Laurent Fabius's Socialist government ( 1984 – 86 – in particular with Fabius ' privatisation of the audiovisual sector, leading to the creation of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth ( ISF ), a symbolic tax on very high resources championed by Mitterrand's government.

Through William, he is an ancestor of the present-day British royal family, as well as an ancestor of all current European monarchs and a great many pretenders to abolished European thrones.

When Denmark abolished slavery in 1848, many plantation owners wanted full reimbursement, on the grounds that their assets were damaged by the loss of the slaves, and by the fact that they would have to pay for labor in the future.

There was also much controversy over the government's decision to reintroduce prescription charges in 1968 ( after having abolished them in 1964 ), although the blow of this measure was arguably by softened by the fact that many people were exempted from charges.

More recently, most of these courses have been abolished, and many youths in high school and college would be more likely to study child development and the management of children's behavior.

This area is now the site of many of the most important government buildings, including the Senate House and the Office of the Prime Minister, now renamed for the use of President Mugabe after the position was abolished in January 1988.

Serfdom was abolished in Russia in 1861, and while many peasants would remain in areas where their family had farmed for generations, the changes did allow for the buying and selling of lands traditionally held by peasants, and for landless ex-peasants to move to the cities.

After 1921 the Soviet regime abolished the term Sart as derogatory, and decreed that henceforth the entire settled Turkic population of Turkestan would be known as Uzbeks, even though many had no Uzbek tribal heritage.

Moreover, many egalitarian-oriented Conservative synagogues have abolished traditional tribal roles and do not perform ceremonies involving kohanim ( such as the Priestly Blessing or calling a Kohen to the first aliyah ), and many traditionalist-oriented Conservative synagogues have retained traditional gender roles and do not permit women to perform these roles at all.

Capital punishment has been used in almost every part of the world, but in the last few decades many countries have abolished it.

This was later abolished by fear that many Swiss Bankers might fall under that definition today.

He is remembered for increasing the efficiency and general progressiveness of the Treasury Department: He abolished 450 unnecessary positions, rehabilitated the U. S. Customs Service with the introduction of electric automatic weighing devices and accepted certified checks instead of currency for customs and internal revenue payments.

Not long after, the army of Liechtenstein was abolished as it was regarded as an unnecessary expense.

on 30 January 1940, the constitutional system was deemed unnecessary and was abolished ; only to be reinitiated in 1942.

The Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection was abolished as unnecessary and redundant by Reorganization Plan No. III of 1946, with all functions being absorbed by the Bureau of Customs and the U. S. Coast Guard.

However, partly due to massive street protests involving the public and politicians from both sides which portrayed the ISA as draconian and unnecessary in view of Malaysia's progress to " developed nation " status, on 15 September 2011, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that The Internal Security Act will be abolished.

He aided those who lost property in fires, abolished certain taxes, and gave out prizes to the public at gymnastic events.

; that taxes have been lowered or abolished ( over and above any amount imposed ) to the extent of 12, 500, 000l.

However, paid forced labour, to which all Africans were liable if they failed to pay head taxes, was not abolished until the early 1960s.

He abolished taxes for a year, rode unarmed through the streets and bazaars meeting common people, and appointed himself " Military Governor of Tashkent ", recommending to Tsar Alexander II that the city be made an independent khanate under Russian protection.

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

City taxes were also abolished in the 1970s.

All religious taxes were constitutionally abolished in 1790, in the wake of the French revolution.

To increase his popularity, he abolished a number of colonial-era taxes.

He reorganised the police force, and abolished many oppressive taxes.

Later, this right of collecting taxes was much abused ; in 1844 the civil authority of the Councils of Elders over its Jewish population was abolished.

The peasant proprietors, who, under the name of the " Lantmanna " party, formed a compact majority in the Second Chamber, pursued a consistent policy of class interests in the matter of the taxes and burdens that had, as they urged, so long oppressed the Swedish peasantry ; and consequently when a bill was introduced for superseding the old system of army organization by general compulsory service, they demanded as a condition of its acceptance that the military burdens should be more evenly distributed in the country, and that the taxes, which they regarded as a burden under which they had wrongfully groaned for centuries, should be abolished.

The Emperor greatly reduced taxes on the papal patrimonies of Sicily and Calabria and abolished other taxes, such as a surtax on grain that had been paid only with difficulty in recent years.

His reign was marked by the reversal of his predecessor's conservative policy ; he abolished taxes for poorer people, repealed penal laws which restricted Jews and discontinued public executions.

During his tenure, the state reinstituted the death penalty and abolished a majority of New Hampshire's taxes ( income, capital gains, sales, etc.

When compelled to find means for financing the war in South Africa, he insisted on combining the raising of loans with the imposition of fresh taxation ; and besides raising the income-tax each year, he introduced taxes on sugar and exported coal ( 1901 ), and in 1902 reimposed the registration duty on corn and flour which had been abolished in 1869 by Lowe.

He abolished Vaaru, a tax on the people living on islands outside Malé, as well as many other taxes on various imports to the country, some of which have been since re-instated.

Religious oaths and church taxes were also abolished.

Government building were burned as well as flour mills and bakeries that refused to lower their prices when taxes were lowered or abolished.

When Peter II died, there were multiple candidates for the throne including Peter I ’ s first wife, Yevdokiya, and Peter I ’ s daughter, Elizabeth However, Alexis Dolgoruky and his allies chose Anna Ivanonva, the daughter of Peter I ’ s half brother Ivan, because the Supreme Privy Council wanted a ruler that would not impose on the powers of the Council, allowing them to continue to virtually rule the empire The Supreme Privy Council offered her the throne with “ Konditsii ” or Conditions These included the inability of the empress to marry, designate a successor, declare war or peace, raise taxes, or spend state revenue without the consent of the Council Many other nobles saw this as an aristocratic grab for power and told the would-be empress so as soon as she arrived in Moscow Ultimately, Anna invalidated the conditions, abolished the Council and sent many members who advocated the conditions into exile.

Sloterdijk's provocative recommendation was that income taxes should be abolished, in favor of a system in which the fiscal needs of the state are met by voluntary contributions from the rich.

These elect a Village Elder ( starosta ) and a collector of taxes, who was responsible, at least until the ukaz of October 1906, which abolished communal responsibility for the payment of taxes, for the repartition among individuals of the taxes imposed on the commune.