Sentences with phrase «from abolition»

Most of the provisions contained in the Act are consequential to the abolition of ATSIC or put into place transitional provisions that arise from the abolition of ATSIC.

Although the Senate might, as prof. Macfarlane suggests, be protected from abolition by its role in the process of constitutional amendment itself, which can not be changed without unanimous consent, the Court might even base its ruling on the broader ground that any fundamental alterations to the nature of the Canadian constitution require the consent of all the provinces.

From the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage, every socio - political movement has had its radical moments in the struggle for recognition.

Many parties call for exempting tariffs on rice, wheat, pork and beef, dairy products and sugar from abolition, the principle tenet of the TPP.

It will present work from the abolition of the death penalty for sodomy in 1861 to the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 — a time of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality that found expression in the arts as artists and viewers explored their desires, experiences and sense of self.

It spans the period from the abolition of the death penalty for buggery in 1861 to decriminalisation in 1967 and explores how seismic shifts in gender and sexuality found expression in the arts.

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.

11.06 am: Alan Duncan, the international development minister, told Sky that many parents who will lose out from the abolition of child benefit for higher - rate taxpayers do not really need the money.

Established in 1909 to deal with the Kaiser's spies, MI5 was narrowly saved from abolition after World War I by the rise of Soviet Russia followed by Nazi Germany.

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

Although Christians might become social workers, that is not the vocation of most of us and the Church is not a Non-Governmental Organisation or NGO pushing through drastic social change, though again Christians have introduced radical social change, everything from the abolition of slavery to the promotion of education.

A radical Christian would interpret these words as meaning that the glory of the God of the old covenant is abolished, for apart from an abolition of the God of judgment, there remains no possibility of transforming humanity into the likeness or image of the glory of Christ.

I also believe that it is an inescapable historical truth for us that the proclamation of Jesus and hence the original ground of the Christian faith announced the immediate dawning of total liberation, a liberation that is inseparable from the abolition of reality.

Protestant Christians either initiated or were at the forefront of every major social movement from abolition to child labor, from suffrage to civil rights.

Not exact matches

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

The first step would be to select possible tariff items for elimination (my paper suggests a number of candidates), announce their potential abolition in the Canada Gazette and receive feedback from stakeholder groups.

«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.»

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.

Christians reasoned their way from believing in divine righteousness to seeing the immorality of human bondage to advocating total, outright abolition.

Resurrection is something different from this; it speaks of victory over death, but not of the abolition of death.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

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.

The abolition of desire from the human spirit would produce a static life where human differences would not be allowed or noticed.

The abolition of the feudal obligations of the peasants and their lords, agricultural reforms, and the introduction of the free alienability of land led to large - scale migrations from the countryside into the cities.

(I think of John Wycliffe, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King Jr.,) In fact, some of the greatest accomplishments in history, such as the abolition of slavery, resulted from counter-cultural action from the Church.

, If and to the degree that the democratic movement means the abolition of privilege and the establishment of political human rights, democracy is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of force.

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).

His theological argument for nuclear abolition would appear to require the total exclusion of nuclear weapons from the just war framework.

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.

On another occasion when after a revival in Wales the clergy resolved to put away their concubines, the bishop actually forbade them because he would lose the revenue derived from the tax on such infractions of the canon law.64 The abolition of clerical concubinage was a major item on the docket alike of the Protestant and the Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century.

The sense of alienation and distance from God which had grown upon the pious in Israel must in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere national divinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab, is declared to be no longer in place; and the typical form of Christian prayer points to the abolition of the contrast between this world and the next which thought all the history of the Jews had continually been growing wider: «As in heaven, so on earth.»

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Abolition of Limited Merits Review) Act 2017 (Act 116 of 2017) Designed to prevent the Australian Competition Tribunal from reviewing certain decisions made under the national energy laws

Ten years ago, in March of 2007, when only five (5) scholars from across the world were selected to deliver presentations during the commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery at the United Nations Headquarters, Professor Naana Jane Opoku - Agyemang was one of those five (5) prominent scholars.

The abolition of the Regional Development Agencies - which helped draw in investment and stimulate growth in our regions — including from European funds to our regions - hasn't helped.

Exceed those limits at peril of in - flight ejection from helicopters.1 Which essentially is the point that making demands in deep favour of labour in parliament result in the abolition of parliament as we know it.

It must be said that campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty has a certain allure for activists due to the clear - cut distinction between retentionist and abolitionist states, as well as the uplifting transition from one to the other.

«This new blow to young people from this government comes on top of cuts to Sure Start, the abolition of EMA, the trebling of tuition fees and the closure of career advice services across the country.

The alternative is the gutting or abolition of the Act, and a withdrawl from the European Convention on Human Rights, which the Conservatives are threatening to do (David Cameron even had a populist pop at the idea of human rights in a conference speech before he became Prime Minister).

By removing the participatory element of classical democracy, «improper» and «wicked» proposals like a «rage for paper money, or an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property» [vii] would be kept far away from republican government.

This has resulted in the growing stability of the macro-economy and the cedi, reduction in inflation, and an abolition of nuisance taxes whose aim is to shift the focus of the economy from taxation to production.

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.

The President noted that «our actions have resulted in the growing stability of the macro-economy and the cedi, reduction in inflation, and an abolition of nuisance taxes whose aim is to shift the focus of the economy from taxation to production.»

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.

The abolition of two positions in the East Hampton Town Sanitation Department, leaving two town employees without jobs, prompted comments at a town board meeting last Thursday from...

The abolition of value is the most effective way to remove corporate influence from politics.

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.

Debating the Leveson proposals is much like wrangling over the abolition of Page Three — it's just as much an argument of «freedom from» as «freedom to»

He was speaking as a report from the Lords constitutional committee warns that despite attempts to tighten the scope of the bill - dubbed the «parliamentary scrutiny (abolition) bill» by critics - it remains «over-broad and vaguely drawn».

The Social Liberal Forum now calls upon Dr. Cable, and all Liberal Democrat MPs, to continue to press for a system that ensures the abolition of student tuition fees, the reduction of student debt and their replacement with a graduate contribution, varying progressively with income and set at levels which do not deter students from taking less well paid, but socially beneficial, post-graduate employment.