Sentences with phrase «towards abolition»
(6) the resulting need for a right of the accused to a full preliminary inquiry to test the sources of evidence, instead of governments working towards its abolition, which would remove an important safeguard against wrongful convictions;
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«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.
Dr Cable, Nick Clegg and their colleagues campaigned on a promise to fight any increase to tuition fees and work towards their abolition.
There is an observable trend towards the abolition of the death penalty in Africa.
There has been a review of the penal code in Comoros as well as proposals for constitutional change in Ghana and Sierra Leone towards abolition.
This continental trend would be further accentuated if the number of African states that have accepted recommendations made under the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to work towards abolition, put them into practice.
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In the developed world, we inhabit a culture that is in effect moving towards what C S Lewis called «the abolition of man».
Tony Blair came into office in 1997 promising an early abolition of hereditary voting rights as part of a wider reform to move towards an elected second chamber.
It marks a step towards the vision outlined by the AU in its Agenda 2063 policy document, which includes the abolition of visa requirements for all African citizens in all the continent's countries by 2018.
Humane Canada is opposed in principle to rodeo and is working towards the ultimate abolition of this activity.
After the abolition of the gory sport of bull - baiting, Bulldog breeders started working towards creating a more evolved breed.
«The transformation towards a low - carbon society is therefore as much an ethical imperative as the abolition of slavery and the condemnation of child labor.»
To get to the point where the majority of people think ecocide is wrong is going to take a transition, which is where Higgins stands out, advocating several steps towards legal abolition of the sort of pollution we now see as commonplace.