Sentences with phrase «history of abolition»

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The longstanding policy of the Alberta New Democratic Party which supports the abolition of the Canadian Senate likely means the Act will be allowed to expire, into the dust of legislative history.

Throughout history, there have been many Christians who looked away, but there also have been many at the forefront of the abolition movement.

(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.

Abolition ends with Lewis's admonition to pause before relegating Natural Law to no more than another accident of human history in a wholly material universe.

According to Radner, modern liberal notions of human rights enabled the more authentic realization of Christian charity in history, most dramatically in the abolition of slavery.

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.»

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«Maryland lawmakers came to the right conclusion and voted to send the death penalty where it belongs - into the dustbin of history,» said Brian Evans, acting director of the organisation's death penalty abolition campaign.

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.

I do not feel his vision was utopian; it was a workable vision of community, not unlike many that have worked for white people throughout history, from the Puritans on... It also echoes some communal efforts of the abolition movement among others, and the Civil Rights movement, with Valentine, and Landers, in their speeches echoing Martin Luther King Jr. and the same debate over «gradual» or immediate progress.

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.

He also makes a startling discovery: that the Civil War and the abolition of slavery — the fulfillment of the ideals of the Declaration — were the decisive turning point in the history of American foreign policy as well.

Don't under - estimate the bravery of a board who overturns that much history... Or how smart they were: i) realizing up to EUR 21 mio in cash from a low / volatile margin business, and ii) dodging the looming abolition of EU milk quotas in 2015, which would require a large & probably uneconomic investment in processing capacity.

This exhibition looks at the art scene in a city where history has been on the march since the abolition of apartheid and the first democratic elections in 1994.

Based in a historic decommissioned fire station in Manhattan, the project, which runs from 5 May, will consists of workshops from writers and activists during the day, discussing the prison system and abolition, with the space shifting into a nightclub at night, championing the radical history of house music.

It seemed a key moment, in world history, like the abolition of slavery or of apartheid (Mandela's comparisons, not mine).

There is more history of the cause of action in the Irish Law Reform Commission Report (for those who want more detail), which recommended the abolition of the cause of action in Ireland.

Visitors to «Within These Walls» encounter a picture of everyday home life that emerges against the backdrop of American history, including such touch points as colonial America, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, the industrial revolution, and World War II.