Sentence examples for At abolition from inspiring English sources

It is unclear whether Mr Abdellahi will let them back.His trickiest task will be to tackle slavery, which has resisted three attempts at abolition.

The most recent attempt at abolition, in 2010, fell one vote short.

However, the constitutional power to enact legislation was in the hands of the Assembly, which was dominated by slave-owning landholders who could thus thwart any attempt at abolition.

Clean energy groups are concerned at the abolition of grants funding, saying grants are essential at the earliest stages of technology development.

"I am appalled at the abolition of the post," Nigel Brown, the president of the Society for General Microbiology, told the BBC.

Look at the abolition of fees in Scotland: poorer people in need of further education have paid the price.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), set of multilateral trade agreements aimed at the abolition of quotas and the reduction of tariff duties among the contracting nations.

Even the Internal Monetary Fund's managing director Christine Lagarde has expressed unease at the abolition of the carbon price, indicating that the the IMF is concerned the Australian government doesn't consider global warming risks to be real or are being taken seriously.

At the abolition of user fees, many of the support staff had to be laid off and in many cases the income of some of the technical staff dropped.

The death of Stonewall Jackson, the thunder at Gettysburg, the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, the abolition of slavery, the promise of Reconstruction -- all are part of the the Great Valley's amazing next chapter, and the young nation's as well.

"What I've been trying to do for 40 years is move the emphasis of scholarship about slavery from a parochial emphasis to looking at early times," said David Brion Davis, the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale and a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.