Sentences with phrase «about abolition»

I have a couple of thoughts about the abolition of the «2 years and in» option.

I presume that many of them are following with great interest the discussion about the abolition of the Habilitation in Germany (university teaching qualification for lecturers).

It was particularly notable that apprehensions about the abolition of the education maintain allowance (EMA) figured nearly as prominently as those concerning increases in tuition fees to pay for possible shortfalls in university funding.

Cantab83: I did qualify my point about the abolition of the Lords, claiming that it would also require significant moves in advancing the powers which back - bench MPs operate over the Executive.

Antislavery societies were founded with the express purpose of bringing about the abolition of slavery.

Ask him about the abolition of the OLD LAWS... I seriously doubt he will be preaching about the Death Sentence prescribed for Adulterers or any other Sinner.

Passionate about abolition in your own backyard?

It is also extremely challenging to have people care about abolition work when there's a limit to the types of photos and details which we can share.

Because when you have conversations like the one you called an intellectual exercise about the abolition of the Second Amendment, that is exactly what conservatives are terrified about.

Not exact matches

When asked about the compatibility of family and work, Schulz said he would grant relief to parents by offering more child care facilities and the gradual abolition of daycare fees.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

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

For they entail, in principle at least, the overthrowing — the complete abolition — of any system of heroics that would lead us to experience shame about ourselves.

He spoke about this in the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham, published in 1947 as The Abolition of Man.

Why should we privilege the recommendations and positions of the «Four Horsemen» over others who are just as knowledgeable about nuclear weapons policy but who are far less sanguine about the overall prospects for abolition?

Gordon Brown focused his attention on Labour's fight against poverty as pressure about the 10p income tax rate abolition continues.

I wouldn't support, for example, the abolition of tax credits without making sure that no - one lost out (which, going about it by changing the tax system and raising universal benefits would be very, very expensive).

The link between the Lib Dems» victory in Ribble Valley and the abolition of the poll tax is not a straight line - after all, John Major had already promised change - but it is widely viewed as one of the key catalysts for the abrupt about - face.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

Mr Cameron said he had lashed out because he had been «very angry» about the Prime Minister's handling of the abolition of the 10p rate of income tax.

In response to James» question about the Labour leadership candidates — Ed Miliband campaigned for Simon Hughes to speak out & is encouraging his supporters to call on the Lib Dems to stand up for their values, David Miliband has suggested ending the charitable status of fee - paying schools and (one of those non-monetary aspects to reducing inequality) giving representation to ordinary workers on corporate remunertion committees, Ed Balls has strongly opposed the VAT rise and is calling for a graduate tax instead of higher tuition fees, Andy Burnham has reiterated his support for a National Care Service and spoken out on the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund, Diane Abbot has called for fair taxation, cancelling Trident, and setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

He described people trafficking as the new slave trade, a theme he returned to when asked about the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery.

At the weekend Mr Prescott released a statement saying: «My contact with Philip Anschutz relates solely to the use of the Dome, post-sale, in terms of regeneration of the area, and Mr Anschutz's interest in William Wilberforce, former Hull MP and abolitionist, about whom Mr Anschutz is making a film, as I am personally involved in the 2007 Abolition Bicentenary.»

The glossy guide includes about two dozen destinations highlighting events and sites dedicated to abolition and African - American history, suffrage and women's rights, and LGBTQ and human rights.

Simon Hughes, the party's deputy leader, is talking to Labour about blocking the abolition of the Educational Allowance (EMA).

Simon Titley, who knew Clegg when he was an MEP in Brussels between 1999 and 2005, says he has only seen him truly passionate about one issue — the abolition of fox hunting, which he opposed from a libertarian point of view.

Tory sources said Cameron's comments about «recapitalising the poor» were consistent with Conservative policies such as the council tax freeze and the commitment to help low - income families who have lost out from the abolition of the 10p rate of income tax.

@adrianmasters84 What about early abolition of the tolls too?

In them I talked about violence, for example, the abolition of barbaric customs such as torturing people to death for religious heresy, to reinforce the point that human nature comprises many components, some of which incline us toward violence, some of which pull us away from it.

See and read about anti-slavery advertisements and handbills, an anti-slavery children's publication, an abolition celebration in Washington, D.C., and much more.

It is worth having an introductory talk about why elephants are hunted, and the abolition of the ivory trade in 1990.

It was with my mentors that I got to discuss the lessons that I had both observed and taught in the context of the most recent scholarship of History Teaching, to discuss the ramifications of the abolition of NC levels and plan a completely new History - specific model of assessment from scratch, and read and then discuss E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class, both in the context of how we might introduce the content of Thompson's book into mixed ability classrooms in comprehensive schools, but also how Thompson's comments on the nature of historical change altered the way we thought about and taught historical change ourselves.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

This lively, illustrated, and never simplistic volume about the essential role of blacks in America's early history includes complicated views, such as that of African Americans Richard Allen and James Forten, who opposed the back - to - Africa movement because freed blacks in the U.S. were the strongest fighters for the abolition of slavery.

Mr. Hitchens talked about his book The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana, published by Encounter...

The Paw Project's mission is to educate the public about the painful and crippling effects of feline declawing, to promote animal welfare through the abolition of the practice of declaw surgery, and to rehabilitate cats that have been declawed.

It draws upon zine culture from the same time period that helped establish radical queer communities, so now we see games about self - care, prison abolition, safe and consensual sex practices, and many topics we rarely see in epic games.

Her 2007 paintings on butter dishes, jugs, plates and tureens overlay the glazed crockery with fat - cat country squires lumbering about on horses, black servants and slaves, querulous ladies pondering the abolition of slavery, in a motley procession of 18th and 19th - century types.

Himid said the series about the Guardian — a paper she loved — stemmed from when she saw images of black people being juxtaposed with text that had nothing to do with each other as the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery approached in 2007.

But people who have campaigned for the abolition of greenhouse gasses and lobbied for expensive alternatives should not throw stones about market distortion and costs to the consumer.

From the debate about the UK's «Snooper's Charter», to a number of high - profile cyber-attacks and the wrangling, both legal and political, over the abolition of the EU - US data sharing treaty, Safe Harbour, data privacy has remained firmly in the media spotlight in recent months.

The introduction of ABSs is all about «the wholesale abolition of the legal profession».

Given the great power of communication that all people now have to talk about the damage caused to their lives by the lack of a lawyer's advice, the law societies are inviting their own abolition, or substantial changes in their management structure — see for example, The Clementi Report (U.K., 2004).

Although the ATSIC review of 2003 did not recommend the abolition of ATSIC, it is important that a new body should not be about reviving ATSIC.

NACCHO had expressed concern about the potential implications of this to the Senate Inquiry into the abolition of ATSIC.

Governance:: That Indigenous people in the region are consulted about alternative Indigenous governance structure following the abolition of ATSIC; service providers operating in community will regularly consult and negotiate with community to ensure the needs, aspirations and customary law are represented in decision making.