Sentences with phrase «what abolition»

We thought about what she would say to us, to our excuses and our doubts about what abolition might cost us.

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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.

In the developed world, we inhabit a culture that is in effect moving towards what C S Lewis called «the abolition of man».

What we need is not the abolition of the New Evangelization, but a recalibration.

Some of the evidence for this I have put together in the appendix of another book called The Abolition of Man; but for our present purpose I need only ask the reader to think what a totally different morality would mean.

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.»

It has also been enlarged by the emancipation of the sexes, by religious and civic tolerance and freedom, by the increasing abolition of rigid social structures and taboos, in short, by what we call a pluralist social order.

Such rapid abolition of ancient impulses and propensities reminds us so strongly of what has been observed as the result of hypnotic suggestion that it is difficult not to believe that subliminal influences play the decisive part in these abrupt changes of heart, just as they do in hypnotism.

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.

In the early nineteenth century, a group of leading lay evangelicals, as we shall see, 15 who belonged to what was known as the «Clapham sect», led the campaign for the abolition of slavery, which was ended in the British dominions in 1833.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

EU — With the abolition of quotas creeping closer and the recent announcement by the European Commission that six countries have exceeded their milk quota allowance, Charlotte Johnston, TheCattleSite asks what the future prospects are for EU milk production?

Consider what has gone down since March 1985: Point - shaving and abolition of the sport at Tulane.

Len McCluskey said: «What is happening with the consultation on the future of the AWB is anti-democratic; hundreds of thousands of rural workers and stakeholder organisations are being locked out of the consultation to the certain detriment of the people most impacted by any abolition.

But the fact is that political achievement was overshadowed by what tenant advocates did not get in the final deal: an abolition of vacancy decontrol, or a repeal of the Urstadt Law, which would have returned control of New York City rent stabilization policy to the city.

Labour leaders since Attlee had long since ceased to take Clause IV seriously: they just thought abolition would generate more trouble among Labour supporters than the benefits to be gained at electioins since many in the electorate didn't know what Clause IV was until reminded.

Some of the contributors at the hearing clamoured for an abolition of what they called very costly presidential system of government.

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon says: «Lib Dem leaders had enough trouble getting their party to swallow a postponement of the abolition of tuition fees in the manifesto (it ended up put off to what some thought was a fairly meaningless distant horizon).

@adrianmasters84 What about early abolition of the tolls too?

What similarities do you see in the abolition and women's suffrage movements and their philosophies as described in this novel?

Each re-writing was in support of a passionately held cause — from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the Confederacy — each song articulating a particular version of what it means to be American.

What would the abolition of the Human Rights Act mean for employment lawyers?

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.

A look at what's there in English brought up first of all, appropriately enough, given the recent 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, a 1772 monograph by Anthony Benezet, «Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants: with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects.»

Instead of complete abolition, a substantial partial variety is what the Clementi Report in 2004 advocated for England and Wales, i.e., give law society regulatory powers to a separate and independent agency, because they conflict with law society representative powers — powers concerning the interests of the lawyers of those law societies.