abolish
отменять, упразднять, уничтожать;

Abolish three out of four committees today.
His policies are to put up taxes and abolish mortgage income tax relief.
In people who had achieved entirely normal linguistic skills, brain damage can reduce or even abolish such skills.
One of its main decisions was to abolish the school's head boy and girl system.
I sat there and thought what did this woman abolish?

sense
[N] чувство; ум; ощущение; здравый смысл; сознание; разум; значение; смысл; толк; мнение; общее настроение;
чувствовать; ощущать; понимать
She tried to make sense of it while he parted her hair neatly on either side of her neck.
National unity came late and could not conquer the sense of belonging to pre-national societies.
In a general sense this is probably always true but it need not be true in a detailed sense.
Mirror tiles on a ceiling will gain height for the room and a miraculous sense of spaciousness.
She had the sense she was inhabiting a dream from which she had no desire to wake.

amount
[N] количество; итог; сумма; общая сумма; важность; значительность;
составлять сумму; составлять; доходить до; равняться; достигать; набираться; быть равным; быть равнозначным

During the inflationary phase, the universe increases its size by a very large amount.
* A small amount plus half the door take.
She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed, there was not way around that.
After all, she told herself boldly, an element of risk, of danger, added a certain amount of spice to life.
Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely.

subjugate
покорять; порабощать; подчинять

She hadn't managed even to soften him, let alone subjugate him, and that rankled unbearably.
She draws on subterranean forces to subjugate and control.
In cases concerning children it is often necessary to subjugate justice to the adults to the interests of the children.
On the one hand there are those who consider it only one step away from witchcraft, believing that the hypnotherapist is able to subjugate the will and dominate the mind of his unconscious victim.
And she had thought she could subjugate him!

palliate
облегчать; временно облегчать; смягчать; покрывать; извинять

Many village priests insisted on living in luxury, dressing in the best garb, jerkin and multi-coloured hose, and making every effort to palliate the hardships of their lives.
It is possible to palliate without cure.
The same constitutional medicine can be used for both palliative and curative purposes simultaneously, because deep acting remedies can be repeated frequently, without risk of aggravation, if correctly selected they may not only palliate but also cure the patient, even in apparently hopeless cases, because of the gentleness of the fifty millesimal scale.
These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists, between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment, to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder.
The ladies in the billiard room kept a small fire of smashed furniture smouldering by the window and occasionally burned camphor in an attempt to palliate this tormenting odour.

convene
созывать; собирать; собираться; вызывать; вызывать в суд

Convene an instant training workshop aimed at brainstorming out ten profit-making opportunities.
Failure to convene conference
Attending the convention are characters from hundreds of works of literary fiction from all ages and all parts of the world who convene with the express purpose of bolstering their existences and securing their continued survival.
After the meeting he insisted that both governments would keep searching for ways to convene a conference and declared that the process is not stuck.
Nick had seemed concerned and had agreed at once to convene the security subcommittee.

ban
[N]запрещение ; объявление вне закона; запрет ; анафема ; церковное проклятие; приговор об изгнании; оглашение в церкви имен вступающих в брак;
налагать запрет; запрещать; проклинать

Kenya to ban dangerous pesticides
And, behind the scenes in some superstores, plans are being hatched to ban battery eggs.
Trade ban aims to protect threatened species of orchids
No ban because he was taking dog to the vet
American court upholds ban on nuclear plants