The senate vote to abolish the death penalty.

许多欧洲国家已废除了死刑。

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Unlike in places like California and Switzerland, referendums are extremely rare in Greece, with the last such vote held in 1974 when the country voted to abolish the monarchy.

和美国加州、瑞士等地不同，全民公投在希腊极其罕见，上一次公投要追溯到遥远的1974年，当时是为了废除君主制。

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Following the preliminary ruling by US District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York, Apple has dropped plans to ask shareholders to vote on whether to abolish a contractual right that the company currently enjoys to issue such preference shares without limit.

BBC: Apple loses shareholder vote lawsuit and drops plan

"I'd immediately vote for a party that wants to abolish the euro, " said Freiberg, who has run a small business selling ink stamps in central Berlin for more than 40 years.

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But following the vote, the Social Democratic government agreed to abolish nuclear power by 2010 when many of the plants were expected to be nearing the end of their presumed 25-year lifespan.

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