Sentences with phrase «like abolition»

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

«The historic role of third parties has been to force issues neglected by the major parties into public debate - issues like the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, the 8 - hour day, Social Security, and ending segregation.

«The historic role of third parties has been to advance issues like abolition, women's suffrage, social security, minimum wages, and unemployment insurance.

Some revenue raisers on the individual side, like abolition of deductions for state and local taxes and the elimination of personal exemptions, would expire at the end of that year too.

Not exact matches

Many, like the proposed abolition of the estate tax, will only benefit the high - saving wealthy.

Because when you have conversations like the one you called an intellectual exercise about the abolition of the Second Amendment, that is exactly what conservatives are terrified about.

And the cautions of those like C. S. Lewis, who noted the elitist and manipulative nature of secularism in The Abolition of Man, will seem more prophetic even than Orwell.

CNN routinely partners with and praises the work of organizations like International Justice Mission, Not For Sale, and World Relief, and has issued several flattering portraits of «the new Christian abolition movement.»

This was true for the first wave of feminists whose priorities fueled not only egalitarian theologyand the Golden Era of Missions, but also social projects like suffrage and abolition.

The defining aspects of Marxist - Leninist philosophy would be more focused of things like universal social welfare, the elimination of the political power of the bourgeoisie, the abolition of private property, the emancipation of women, command economy, and a single - party state.

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.

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.

But the Lib Dems also called for the abolition of the CTF in their 2005 manifesto, when public finances were not under anything like the present strain.

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»

«Members out there are extremely concerned because we, as a party, still support the policy of moving towards the abolition of fees and I suspect that we will have something like that in our next manifesto,» Mr Farron said.

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.

To my mind the threat and the remedy are inherently sensational, like, for example, the abolition of slavery.

Regardless of what happens in the US, which is not a model Canada should automatically emulate, the case for Crown Copyright needs to be made and considered with an open mind before total abolition, particulary in a country like Canada where we are trying to protect and preserve a unique cultural identity.