Sentences with phrase «speak of the abolition»

Why are even those most enthusiastic for peace timid to speak of the abolition of war?

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

He spoke about this in the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham, published in 1947 as The Abolition of Man.

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.

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.

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».

Speaking to politics.co.uk, he stopped short of supporting Mr Cameron's call for the abolition of appeal panels.

In October 2001, he had to apologise after speaking up in favour of Home Secretary David Blunkett's abolition of the voucher scheme for asylum seekers.

The protesters the Observer spoke to proposed remedies ranging from the end of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton's «broken windows» strategy of cracking down on small quality of life violations to the complete abolition of the police force to the public seizure and conversion of derelict properties to housing for the homeless.

Naming the Money (2004) which also appeared as part of the V&A exhibition, Uncomfortable Truths (2007), Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007) and Talking on Corners Speaking in Tongues (2007) were all central to the cultural events surrounding the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain