Sentences with phrase «on abolition»

Select Committee on the Administration of Indigenous Affairs releases final report on the abolition of ATSIC

However, the Committee commented on the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and the transfer of ATSIC programs to mainstream government departments, as well as the establishment of the Government appointed NIC.

The Senate Select Committee on the Administration of Indigenous Affairs releases its report on the abolition of ATSIC and new arrangements: After ATSIC - Life in the Mainstream.

Pro bono attorneys from Clayton Utz, working in partnership with Anti-Slavery Australia, a legal research and policy center focused on the abolition of slavery, trafficking, and labor exploitation, agreed to assist Ram in securing his missing wages.

The electronic apostille (and register): Under the Hague Conference on Private International Law's Convention on the Abolition of All Forms of Legalization, member states may authenticate public documents for use in other member states by use of a certificate called an apostille.

It matters because if Canada becomes a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (known formally as the Convention on the abolition of all forms of legalization), then it will be contrary to the Convention for anyone in Canada to ask for legalization.

It published leading writers» commentary on abolition, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs.

Arbuthnot was MP for Wanstead and Woodfood between 1987 and 1997, but on its abolition ahead of the 1997 election, he was selected to contest North East Hampshire, which he has represented ever since.

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.

The Growth, Mobilization and Activism Coordinator of Amnesty International Ghana, Frank Doyi, said this at a public forum on the abolition and campaign against death penalty at Wa in the Upper West Region.

Stakeholders, particularly Parliamentarians, religious leaders and the media have been asked to add their voice on Amnesty International's call on the abolition of death penalty in Ghana.

This brought him to the attention of party leader Tony Blair, and shortly after his defeat by the SNP he was welcomed at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness where he spoke immediately before Blair in the critical debate on abolition of Clause 4.4 of the Labour Party Constitution.

Yet Whitehall persists in pretending they are autonomous — even though London has overridden them before, on the abolition of capital punishment, say, or the decriminalising of homosexual acts.

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

However, it is fair to say that their energies have been focused on conscientious objection to war more than on the abolition of war.

Not exact matches

The Board of Trade also called for the abolition of dual direct taxation (city and provincial) on personal property in Vancouver.

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.

Virgin Unite, Richard and the Global Commission on Drug Policy call for the abolition of the death penalty for drug offences, and ultimately for all offences.

Because the abolition of some of the indirect taxes will not take effect immediately, the short - term effect of the package on the price level is likely to be larger than the long - run effect.

Bernier called for a national referendum on Senate abolition.

They also take into account the abolition, as of March 2013, of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE).

q. Miscellaneous final additions, such as the ninth categoreal obligation in II.1.4 or the abolition of reversion 249.41 - 250.11 / 381.36 - 382.19 or the final section on the «fourth phase»: V. 2.7.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

I have no doubt that many of the people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being faithful to God's Word.

The abolition of arbitrary difference continues its advance — abolishing limits on the marriage right based on the gender pairing of the couple, and now abolishing differential access to bathrooms based on a person's gender self - identification.

Whatever one may think of Natural Family Planning, or of periodic restraint under any other name, positive chemico - mechanical restraints on conception - those that, if you will, «violate nature» - open the door to, in C. S. Lewis» well - known words, «the abolition of man.»

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.»

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Therefore one would expect the abolition of war to be high on the church's agenda.

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

Already, last September in the Guardian newspaper and on a Radio 4 discussion programme Tatchell has called for the appropriateness of any sexual relationship to be judged on a purely individual basis, effectively calling for the abolition of any fixed age of consent, (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ commentisfree / libertycentral / 2009 / sep / 24 / sex - under -16-underage).

Just as he spoke no specific word on slavery or slums, but gave an impulse that can let no sensitive Christian be at ease while they exist, so he injected into human history a spirit that must eventually lead to war's abolition.

Of course, this was not the first attack on racism, but it was the one that forced the attention of the entire nation, and especially of the churches, to a topic they had marginalized since the abolition of slavery.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

To make a case for abolition, Christians had to look beyond what appears on the surface to be an endorsement of slavery to examine why the New Testament authors wrote what they did.

It is easy to see how the timelessness of God and of his knowledge led to the theological determinism, to the predestinationism of St. Augustine, St. Thomas and Calvin; for the abolition of time and becoming on the divine level eliminates entirely the ambiguity of the future which is uncertain only to our imperfect, time - bound insight, but which is in its completeness timelessly present in the mind of God.

Whereas for Hegel alienation is a state of consciousness subject to elimination by another state of consciousness12 for Marx alienation is related to real, existing objects subject to elimination only in the real sphere of object - related activity.13 Marx's critique of Hegel, in this connection, is that the abolition of alienation on the level of mere consciousness recognizes the immanent impossibility of abolishing real alienation.

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).

Still more incisive than either the abolition of individualistic anthropocentrism or the abolition of the fixation on consciousness - centered and observer - centered theoretical beginnings, and still more offensive to a style of thinking marked by Continental philosophical traditions, is the second alteration of the conception of subjectivity in Whitehead's book.

Rather, he was slowly winning everybody to his side on the matter of abolition of slavery.

The democratic deconstruction of personal privileging or identification is completed on behalf of both equality and the abolition of anxious alienation.

R. R. Reno cites Charles Murray and Mary Douglas for the compelling proposition that the abolition of clear social rules wreaks greater havoc among the economically and educationally weak than among the strong, inter alia because the latter have more resources to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty («War on the Weak,» August / September).

In 1828, William Lloyd Garrison, Lundy's assistant editor, wrote a violent and uncompromising attack on slavery advocating the new British approach of immediate unconditional abolition.

Obama's stance on nuclear abolition has been built on a foundation erected over the last number of years by a host of former US national security practitioners.

On p. 35 we point out that Peter Tatchell was given pulpits by The Guardian and the BBC to argue for the abolition of any fixed age of consent.

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 centurOn 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 centuron 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 centuron 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.»

Henry IV in Germany hurled defiance at Gregory VII when the pope categorically insisted on the imposition of clerical celibacy and the abolition of lay investiture.

Two weeks ago the ITF accepted a special commission report recommending restrictions on under - 16s competing on the world circuit, a ban on pro play by under - 14s and abolition of under - 12 international tournaments.