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.

* The Introductory Tax Reform Law ( 1974 ), which increased bad weather payments, part-time workers ’ benefits and insurance benefits to 68 % of net wages, fixed special benefits during vocational training at 90 % of net earnings, increased assistance benefits to 58 % of net earnings, and abolished special family benefits “ in favour of the inclusion of the unemployed under general child allowance scheme ”.

Concessions given to minorities were abolished as part of the Red Guards ' attack on the “ Four Olds ”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.

They shall destroy the coca bushes if illegally cultivated ” ( Article 26 ), and that, “ Coca leaf chewing must be abolished within twenty-five years from the coming into force of this Convention ” ( Article 49, 2. e ).

Five-yearly or three-yearly policy and finance reviews of all agencies and other public bodies were instituted, where the first question to be answered ( the “ prior options exercise ") was why the function should not be abolished or privatised.

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.

Furious that the death sentence had been abolished in Geneva, he demanded that he be tried according to the laws of the Canton of Lucerne, which still had the death penalty, signing the letter: “ Luigi Lucheni, anarchist, and one of the most dangerous ".

The monarchy was abolished and the name “ Central African Republic ” was restored on 21 September 1979, when Bokassa was ousted with French support.

Ishiwara envisioned a one-party “ national defense state ” with a command economy in which political parties were abolished and venal politicians and greedy businessmen removed from power.

( ii ) Were the State immediately abolished, without the “ conditions leading to the arising of the State ”, a new State would appear, and the socialist revolution would have been for naught.

The 1856 Declaration of Paris abolished privateering, protected neutral goods shipped to belligerents except for “ contrabands of war ,” and recognized blockades only if they were proved effective.

Chen had previously called for the NUC to be “ abolished ” but later toned this down to " cease to function ".

Mao own position was weakening, as evidenced by the decision of the Eighth Congress to delete the phrase “ guided by the thought of Mao Zedong ” from the new Party constitution and by re-establishing the role of General Secretary, abolished in 1937.

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.

The requirement to “ set aside ” a portion of their arable land is abolished, and milk production quotas are being enlarged to prepare for their removal in 2015.

Louis Menand explores the issue in an article for the New Yorker in which he quotes Kay Boyle, the director of creative writing program at San Francisco State for sixteen years, who said, “ all creative-writing programs ought to be abolished by law .”

According to the Augustan-era historian Livy, nexum was abolished because of the excessive cruelty and lust of a single “ usurer ,” Lucius Papirius.

In revising the Landlord and Tenant Act, the old “ right of restraint ”— whereby landlords could seize a tenant's furniture — was abolished and replaced by security deposits and a Rentalsman's Office was created to adjudicate tenancy disputes.

Emperor ’ s decree abolished St Catherine ’ s monastery as “ useless ”, together with 738 monasteries in the empire, which did not take care of the poor or educate the youth.

Following the “ Gao Gang Affair ” there were calls for greater Party unity and there was an increase in centralisation as the old regional administrations with their Party and military bodies were abolished, a change that had been planned for some time but that was no doubt spurred on by Gao's attempts to use his regional power to gain power at the centre.

Charles Lowell, D. D., wrote in a personal letter eight decades later, “ My father introduced into the Bill of Rights the clause by which Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts ... and when it was adopted, exclaimed: ' Now there is no longer Slavery in Massachusetts, it is abolished and I will render my services as a lawyer gratis to any slave suing for his freedom if it is withheld from him ...' and he did so defend the negro slave against his master under this clause of the constitution which was declared valid by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1783, and since that time Slavery in Mass.