Sentences with phrase «claiming abolition»

The Lib Dems were proud to claim the abolition of ID cards as a triumph for their role in the coalition.

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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?»

It's obvious that such advances as abolition were a product of the Enlightenment, and that enlightened Christians then reworked their interpretation of the Bible to support this secular discovery, not the other way around, like preachers like to claim these days.

Yet Claiborne's biblical argument for abolition ignores passages in the Bible directly pertinent to the conclusion he claims to establish.

In the aftermath of the abolition of interviews, the governing body can no longer gauge this will - o» - the - wisp, notwithstanding the claim that objective catholicity is nothing but appearing at Sunday Mass..

Yet this claim belies the relationship of Reformed theology to abolition in the 1800s, as well as the splits within Methodism over slavery and the prejudices that haunted early Pentecostalism.

Lewis even claims that «dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery» (Abolition, p. 46).

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.

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.

Every MP worth his salt is trying to divert attention from his expenses claim by proclaiming a change to the franchise, abolition of the Lords, or an end to the constituency system.

According to the latest Employment Tribunal (ET) statistics issued by the Ministry of Justice, there has been a 64 per cent increase in the overall number of issued claims in the two months following the abolition of ET fees when compared to the previous quarter.

With the abolition of the fees regime, the number of tribunal claims has started to increase, so this month we go back to basics and discuss:

Apart from this, IRDA's abolition of claim - based loading on subsequent premiums also plays a role in pushing the premiums higher.