Sentences with phrase «less abolishing it»

Yet it seems unlikely that the current government, which has been focused on increasing the tax rate on Canada's richest one per cent while at the same time putting in place measures to ensure that private corporations aren't inappropriately being used to sprinkle income and retain passive income, would actually consider lowering the inclusion rate, much less abolishing it altogether.

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I don't understand how your premise that the long - form census mis - samples the poor and less - educated leads to the conclusion that it should be abolished.

The right to hire temporary foreign workers for 15 % less than the going wage has been abolished, but there are other ways of squeezing those workers.

The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

It was less than 50 years ago when we finally passed the federal voting rights act in this country and less than 150 years since slavery was abolished.

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

Other schools have abolished a major sport for far less cause than you have to do so right now.

But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

Half (50 %) stated that they would be more likely if a party pledged to renationalise the railways (versus 17 % who said they would be less likely); and almost half (48 %) stated that they would be more likely if a party pledged to abolish tuition fees (versus 19 % who said they would be less likely).

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

If in November 15, 2013, he saw it proper and in the nation's best interest to issue a directive abolishing the purchase of state bungalows by government office holders, he must think he is above that abolition, much less think he can have a state bungalow for free as his retirement benefit.

This year, though, advocates are less focused on repealing the Urstadt laws than they were in previous years and have made abolishing decontrol their focus.

The DLA benefit was abolished by the Tories and replaced by PIPs, leading to a wave of criticism from campaigners who say they are less generous.

Abolishing higher rate tax relief on pension contributions was much less so — 42 % supported and 31 % opposed.

Katwala, who has been critical of Brown in recent months, believes that Labour should learn from the Tories, who regained the initiative last autumn by pledging to abolish inheritance tax for all properties worth less than # 1m.

By abolishing any stigma that might come with a flagged test, while tightening access to special accommodations, the College Board has given new opportunities to the strategic, while leaving behind the less savvy and less financially well - endowed.

Many earlier laws limiting homework were abolished, and the longterm trend toward less homework came to an end.

Gove in his haste to get rid of Connexions left a void in careers guidance and support, He abolished Connexions with no other thought or idea on how to shape careers education other than to exhort already hard working teachers to take on more for less.

Under one version of the proposal, about 1 million families would be hit with a 4.3 percent surtax on income over $ 500,000, which would raise enough money to permit Congress to abolish the alternative minimum tax for millions of households earning less than $ 250,000 a year, according to Democratic aides and others familiar with the plan.

James, if this is in Hotel Isla Boracay (which was abolished in late 2010), I'll be d*mn ed this in one of my fave hang - outs in White Beach, kasi parang akin yung buong mundo I couldn't care less about the pricks at Hotel Asya (doon sa dulo).

«It would be a mistake to try to read landscape into [my painting] even less any specific landscape,» Tworkov told Edward B. Henning, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1962, «For it is a willful part of my painting process to abolish specific references in favor of abstract forms that stir a sense of recognition in me.

In another move towards abolishing the dull sameness of big art fairs, the second floor of Basel, hosting the more adventurous, less established and canonized art and artists should collapse and mix with its forefathers.

Why isn't the possibility of abolishing malaria at the forefront of the WHO's reports, and why do its press releases instead focus on the far less significant, and ultimately less safe attribution of deaths to climate change?

When combined, these policies would yield a smaller, less powerful government; a tax code more conducive to investment and growth; and the emissions reductions the law says we must achieve... [R] eform must devote every dime of carbon - tax revenue to reducing other tax rates or abolishing other taxes altogether.

If a country decided to put political pressure on the US to abolish the death penalty, pursuing governors, the president, and perhaps judges would be much more likely to have an impact than going after executioners (who are far less likely to travel abroad, anyway).

Amongst the lesser known of Donald Trump's new appointees is Ajit Pai, whom the US President recently tapped to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and who has promised to abolish the regulations that ensure net neutrality (the concept that internet service providers [ISP] should allow the same access to all content regardless of where that content originates).

Evidently, pressure is building from the very top that RPI is a discredited measure of inflation which should be abolished to save the government money; but many employee pensions are linked to RPI, and unions would strongly oppose any attempt to shift to a less volatile measure which would reduce payouts, such as the consumer price index (CPI) or the ONS» preferred index, «consumer price inflation including owner - occupiers» housing costs» (CPIH).

But since the monasteries were abolished in England by Henry VIII, English speakers are less familiar with monks than francophones, so a different image is probably called for...

It would also abolish affordable housing goals that stipulate how many loans mortgage companies must finance to less - affluent borrowers.