But one plan that legislators say they are seriously considering would essentially abolish the state's no-fault insurance system.

Mr. Bloomberg can boast of having kept the biggest promise of his first campaign: He won control of the school system and essentially abolished the Board of Education.

He then essentially abolished the privileges of the council, introducing a "constitution" and establishing a local assembly that had total control over the community administration.

Lugard essentially abolished the Caliph and retained the title Sultan as a symbolic position in the newly organized Northern Nigeria Protectorate.

Many popular antidepressant drugs essentially abolish REM sleep in people, he said, yet their memories are fine.

A less radical Government might have proposed an actual alternative to a second chamber before essentially abolishing it.

This Act essentially abolishes the ancient Hindu legal practice that those who are handicapped are ineligible to inherit property from their family.

All this is accelerating a revolution in prices that began when the European Union essentially abolished trade barriers among member countries earlier in this decade.

Initially, land reform essentially abolished the political influence of major land owners.

Wisconsin is essentially abolishing cash aid, substituting a giant work program that will stretch from the sprawling ghettos of Milwaukee to the Minnesota border.