Sentences with phrase «against abolition»

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

In response, the legal friends of the SFO got together and lobbied heavily against its abolition.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

Not exact matches

«Speaking against nuclear weapons is good, campaigning against nuclear weapons is good, and praying for their abolition is good.

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

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.

It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.

Lewis» Abolition of Man is, inter alia, an extended treatise against the deification of science.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

How do you reconcile this against your point that the bible demands abolition of slavery?

C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»

Through emphasizing the «calling» to work as a way of serving God, through warning against the pursuit of frivolous leisure - time activities, and through approving the abolition of laws against usury, the Calvinist work ethic facilitated the accumulation of wealth.

That cause is the abolition of laws and the end of practices that discriminate against non-believers in the US.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

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

There is no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

The Growth, Mobilization and Activism Coordinator of Amnesty International Ghana, Frank Doyi, said this at a public forum on the abolition and campaign against death penalty at Wa in the Upper West Region.

The first serious political difficulty for the current government rose from the student mobilisation against rising tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance.

He opposed Catholic emancipation, Lords reform and supporting war against Napoleon and the abolition of the slave trade.

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.

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.

Right up until the abolition of slavery in Great Britain in the 19th century, pretty much all of the 300 companies facilitating the slave trade fought against a ban on the grounds that the economy would collapse.

(6) the resulting need for a right of the accused to a full preliminary inquiry to test the sources of evidence, instead of governments working towards its abolition, which would remove an important safeguard against wrongful convictions;

Article 56 TFEU requires not only the elimination of all discrimination against providers of services on grounds of nationality or the fact that they are established in a Member State other than that where the services are to be provided, but also the abolition of any restriction, even if it applies without distinction to national providers of services and to those of other Member States, which is liable to prohibit, impede or render less advantageous the activities of a provider of services established in another Member State where he lawfully provides similar services (Case C ‑ 475 / 11 Konstantinides [2013] ECR, paragraph 44 and the case - law cited).

Today, in the case of Canada (Attorney General) v. Whaling, 2014 SCC 20, the Supreme Court of Canada pushed back against one small element of the government's «tough on crime» agenda, namely, the retroactive abolition of early parole for offenders already serving their sentences.

The Supreme Court ruled against part of Canada's anti-prostitution laws in the Bedford ruling at the close of 2013, and held that a section of the Abolition of Early Parole Act was unconstitutional.

1Article 2, International Labour Organisation Forced Labour Convention 1930; Article 1, Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 2Article 3, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000)

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