Sentences with phrase «by abolition»

The Committee is concerned by the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the main policy - making body in Aboriginal affairs consisting of elected indigenous representatives.

One way the government might fill the policy role left vacant by the abolition of ATSIC is to extend the ideas generated, the lessons learned and the outcomes achieved in one policy domain, Indigenous policy, and extend these into another domain, native title policy.

The low number of cases filed in 2016's first quarter is likely a result of the incredibly high number of cases last November which were spurred on by the abolition of Form 18 used to plead infringement, but the suggestion that we've gotten close to pre-AIA litigation levels is notable.

If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops by the abolition lobby.

It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship.

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

Of course, this declaration differed entirely from a statement made by the Abolition of Vivisection which warned, «[Beagles] can be force fed chemicals and drugs in capsules or via plastic tubes inserted through their mouths, directly into their stomach or strapped into a harness for hours at a time while substances are pumped directly into their bloodstream.

The CBI argues that the situation has been mainly driven by the abolition of testing at Key Stage Two and the upshot of a system obsessed with exam results, not the real world skills future scientists, technicians and engineers need to master.

Labour has promised to compensate the 5.3 m million households thought to be left worse off by the abolition of the starting rate - although quite how it will do this has yet to be confirmed.

The # 110bn cost of the plan would be paid for by the abolition of pension credits and of tax relief on pension contributions.

Len McCluskey said: «What is happening with the consultation on the future of the AWB is anti-democratic; hundreds of thousands of rural workers and stakeholder organisations are being locked out of the consultation to the certain detriment of the people most impacted by any abolition.

Meanwhile a large number of Methodists, particularly in New England, were influenced by the abolition movement.

He asserted that humanization can be attained by the abolition of private property, the most important cause of dehumanization.

Not exact matches

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

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.

Interdisciplinarity, greater use of technology, inducements for aging faculty to retire, and» by the way» the abolition of tenure.

Such a state would be ruled by the P.L.O., whose charter, never revoked, specifically calls for the abolition of Israel and the substitution of a secular, non-Jewish state.

And of course, part of the difference was rhetorical: Leithart continued to identify «Protestantism» by its most widespread contemporary expressions, and accordingly called for its abolition, while Sanders and Trueman remained puzzled by this odd attempt to define something in terms of its most defective forms, rather than its historic essence.

«The tree of Abolition is evil,» declared Reverend Henry Van Dyke in 1860, «and only evil — root and branch, flower and leaf, and fruit; that it springs from, and is nourished by an utter rejection of the Scriptures.»

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.»

The Humanists, or the militants among them, and the neo-modernists who run by their side, are the most active in calling for the abolition of «divisive» schools.

In one memorable paragraph we have the comparison made between a universe without moral laws and led just by human desire, which leads to a dying universe, as indicated by C. S. Lewis in his book The Abolition of Man, and Nagel's view of the universe becoming aware of itself in man, and becoming conscious of truth, beauty and goodness.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

When the truth - in - sentencing concept was invented in the early 1990s by the American Legislative Exchange Council, it received massive federal support, making parole abolition its most successful legislative venture ever.

Again, a total epiphany of the sacred occurs only by means of a total abolition of the profane.

Yet such a forward movement can not culminate in an abolition of the opposites by returning to a primordial Beginning.

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The dream of the abolition of war is given us in the Bible, but the reason most Christians hesitate to accept that dream and act upon it comes also from the Bible, from all the wars that are recorded and celebrated by God's people, all the wars that are authorized and even commanded by God.

It has also been enlarged by the emancipation of the sexes, by religious and civic tolerance and freedom, by the increasing abolition of rigid social structures and taboos, in short, by what we call a pluralist social order.

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

A «liberalization» of existing law was expected by most; the abolition of all law protecting the unborn was expected by almost nobody outside the Court itself.

Communism, as originally laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, required the abolition of all religion in order to reach its ideal end - state.

Proper relations between man and man can be attained only by suppression of self and abolition of hatred — which can be achieved by eliminating desire.

The abolition of slavery is demanded by biblical principles.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

The question is whether this suspension or abolition of a referential function of the first degree is not the negative condition for the liberating of a more primitive, more originary referential function, which may be called a second order reference only because discourse whose function is descriptive has usurped the first rank in daily life and has been supported in this regard by modern science.

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.»

I think it originally belonged to the discussion of the Category of Conceptual Reversion (Process 249f), and was bumped by the paragraph announcing abolition of reversion.

As the nation grew and we experienced the opening of the west, the pangs of the industrial revolution, the exploitation of natural resources, the advent of wars, the abolition of slavery, and the enslavement of urban minorities, the Christian church adopted the success criteria used by industry and finance.

[1] Communism, as originally laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, required the abolition of all religion in order to reach its ideal end - state.

Yes, we are guilty; or, our given or actual condition is a condition of guilt; but we harden and freeze our guilty condition by a resentment which forecloses the possibility of the abolition of repression.

Would Rome have been destroyed by a crusade for the abolition of slavery in the time of Cicero or in the time of Augustus?

Whereas for Hegel alienation is a state of consciousness subject to elimination by another state of consciousness12 for Marx alienation is related to real, existing objects subject to elimination only in the real sphere of object - related activity.13 Marx's critique of Hegel, in this connection, is that the abolition of alienation on the level of mere consciousness recognizes the immanent impossibility of abolishing real alienation.

In the House of Lords, the chief justice of the Kings Bench, Lord Ellenborough, predicted that the next step would be abolition of the death penalty for stealing five shillings from a house; thereafter no one could «trust himself for an hour without the most alarming apprehension that, on his return, every vestige of his property [would] be swept away by the hardened robber» (quoted by Herbert B. Ehrmann in «The Death Penalty and the Administration of Justice,» in The Death Penalty in America, edited by Hugo Adam Bedau [Anchor, 1967], p. 415).

Still more incisive than either the abolition of individualistic anthropocentrism or the abolition of the fixation on consciousness - centered and observer - centered theoretical beginnings, and still more offensive to a style of thinking marked by Continental philosophical traditions, is the second alteration of the conception of subjectivity in Whitehead's book.

By the 1830s, bills calling for abolition of capital punishment were being regularly introduced, and defeated, in several state legislatures.