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  • adjective Not abolished.

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  • On paper there are enough qualified auditors around to do the work and as long as the commission remains unabolished there's a statutory code to govern what they do – which means the government does not have to worry about involving the National Audit Office and getting over the constitutional hurdle that it technically belongs to the House of Commons, not the executive.

    Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up 2011

  • But what no Sieur Resson nor Mother Society can do more than guess is this, That a council of rank Feuillants, your unabolished

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The repetitition of such horrors, the proneness of the people to so cruel and heart-searing a superstition, was traced by the legislature to its source, namely, the yet unabolished statute of James I.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • And with this further word of the unabolished law -- "This if thou do

    Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

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