Sentences with word «abolition»

And we have tried, often succeeding such as in the cas of abolition of slavery, to do far more good.

Lewis claims in Abolition that until quite recent times everyone believed that objects could merit our approval or disapproval, our reverence or our contempt.

This brought him to the attention of party leader Tony Blair, and shortly after his defeat by the SNP he was welcomed at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness where he spoke immediately before Blair in the critical debate on abolition of Clause 4.4 of the Labour Party Constitution.

Most had been abandoned by abolition times, but the descendants of plantation workers still inhabit the island.

This was a typical home for many slaves in the Caribbean before and immediately after abolition.

Despite the efforts of Carter, Martin and more recent advocates, the prison abolition movement in this country is still small.

They included abolition of child labor, protection of workers against industrial hazards, shorter hours — the 12 - hour day was then common — a living wage and arbitration of industrial disputes.

In 1974, there were 599 homicides — the rate had more than doubled since abolition.

However, he has also indicated that PUP is likely to support abolition of the Carbon Tax and the extensive measures aimed at promoting renewable energy and the independent science - based body responsible for advising government on future carbon reduction targets.

Soon, Struensee becomes a favorite of the king to such an extent that he is allowed to propose reformist laws such as abolition of censorship, the banning of torture, vaccinations for all; but for a while the nobles who form the small legislative body resist all changes that would strip them of money and power, turning down the chief executive right and left until the latter grows a pair.

That's been true of a lot of issues from abolition of slavery to establishment of the minimum wage to paid sick leave.»

Following abolition of quotas, Irish milk supplies were 11 % (600m liters) higher in the first ten months of 2015.

A consequence of the proposed abolition of ATSIC is that there are challenges raised for existing framework agreements and structures which rely on the ATSIC structure to ensure Indigenous participation and representation.

The proposal is not a complete abolition of Inheritance Tax but, by excluding the main home, it will go a long way towards addressing the injustice of the death tax faced by millions of ordinary families across the country.

The aim is not abolition so much as control, the goal being to keep prostitution limited to areas of the city where it will not offend the rest of the population.

Passionate about abolition in your own backyard?

2004 - Prime Minister and Minister Vanstone announce abolition of ATSIC.

Last week the government faced the threat of defeat from a backbench revolt over abolition of the 10p tax band - avoided when Mr Darling brought in last - minute proposals to compensate those losing out.

They would maintain the existing arrangements that their secretary of state for business, Vince Cable, put in place while retaining a barely credible aspiration towards abolition at some unspecified future date.

Like many others, I go about my daily business believing that slavery is something that only exists in history books — a dark chapter in our history which we closed for good in 1834 when the Slavery Abolition Act came into force.

Albeit, they will provide law societies but a temporary respite before abolition by the former, or emasculation by the latter.

Attorney Beth Klein serves on the Steering Committee for Demand Abolition, a coalition of over 100 of the most effective anti-human trafficking organizations in the world.

When the glorious news of British emancipation arrived in 1833, a number of New York reformers met and founded the New York City Anti-Slavery Society, which stood for immediate abolition, but they interpreted this differently from the way Garrison interpreted it.

An argument against abolition of CRL is that the church would be left deprived.

Unnamed government sources told the BBC last week that the Lords could face abolition if it tried to block the Brexit process.

Prison Abolition for Transgender Liberation Lark Mulligan, PSJD Pro Bono Publico Award Winner, 2015 - 2016 (DePaul University College of Law)

It sees abolition of the monarchy as part of our becoming a normal, modern country.

Most telling of all has been a subtle shift of language: increasing references to the proposed scheme as having «the qualities of a graduate tax» and more emphasis on the undoubtedly welcome abolition of up - front fees.

Tatsujiro Suzuki is a professor and director at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition at Nagasaki University.

«The historic role of third parties has been to advance issues like abolition, women's suffrage, social security, minimum wages, and unemployment insurance.

I have no doubt that many of the people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being faithful to God's Word.

With outright abolition a virtual constitutional impossibility, Wilson - Raybould must navigate the handcuffs of a recent Supreme Court ruling with the blue - sky Liberal promise of substantive Senate reform.

Favours total abolition of inheritance tax.

(The Salisbury Convention made it difficult for the Lords to directly block abolition of hereditary peers; but prior to the agreement on Lords reform they could, and did, delay and frustrate many other Acts of Parliament proposed by the Blair government.)

Anarchists, socialists, communists all have to decide whether they want to make abolition of the monarchy a condition of radicalism.

Stark allows that the British abolition movement succeeded sooner — thanks to strong parliamentary action and Britain's vigorous interdiction of slave vessels.

OK, but certainly they were instrumental in the final abolition of slavery... oh, the conservatives fought FOR slavery?

That piety guided him to simplify his business and family life so that they would serve the «concern» that grew upon him until he became a one - man abolition society traversing the colonies to act for justice in the case of slaves.65

The Dow Chemical Company («Dow») is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact and is committed to promoting socially responsible conduct that aligns to the 10 universally accepted principles, including those related to human rights and labor: (4) the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor and (5) the effective abolition of child labor.

Even if the policy's abolition leads to a sudden baby boom — and demographers say it won't — China's statistics are still stacked against a rise in the birth rate.

HPA's staff members had faced an uncertain future since the agency appeared on a leaked list of government agencies facing abolition earlier in the year.

We thought about what she would say to us, to our excuses and our doubts about what abolition might cost us.

Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw has called on the government to reinstate key stage 3 exams, claiming abolition of tests had allowed standards to drop and has widened the gap between the rich and poor.

7th is the position abolition of the 50p tax rate gets on the «tax cut wish list» voted on by Tory members.