Sentence examples for demand abolition from inspiring English sources

Rich newspapers here incite their poor readers to demand abolition of inheritance tax to benefit the proprietor, while blaming the poor for being welfare spongers.

As Lina Nealon, director of Demand Abolition, told the gathered participants through tears, "Because of the work you are doing, my 2-year-old daughter and my soon-to-be-born daughter will find the idea of buying people for sex as incomprehensible as separate water fountains are to me".

When the great antislavery spokesmen Jacques-Pierre Brissot in France and William Wilberforce in England rose to demand abolition of the slave trade, they read into the record of the French National Assembly and the British Parliament extensive unattributed quotations from Benezet's writings, a fitting tribute to the influence of his work.

There's nothing feminist or new in the current wave of anti-prostitution reformers, who claim, as does the Demand Abolition Coalition, which is led by former US Ambassador Swanee Hunt and actress Ashley Judd among others, that all sex work is "sexual enslavement".

At the National Colloquium on Demand Abolition last week in Boston, I was impressed by the solidarity of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and their resolve to frame themselves as both experts and leaders of the movement to end sex trafficking.

She serves as coordinator for Demand Abolition's CEASE Network initiative in Cook County, Illinois.

On one side are countries such as the US, Australia, Brazil and Canada which are are demanding abolition of farm export subsidies.

In 1927, however, he persuaded his followers to sign the oath of allegiance as "an empty political formula," and his new Fianna Fáil ("Soldiers of Destiny") party then entered the Dáil, demanding abolition of the oath of allegiance, of the governor-general, of the Seanad (senate) as then constituted, and of land-purchase annuities payable to Great Britain.

Likewise, it was outraged Democrats who supported the electoral loser and who demanded abolition of the Electoral College in 2000.

Several Iraqi politicians demanded abolition of a law that grants immunity from prosecution to American and allied forces and private contractors working for them.

Chamoun maintained that while frequently squabbling, the Christians would refuse to compromise on three demands: abolition of Lebanon's system of allocating government jobs by religious quotas, maintenance of the powers of the president and equality in Parliament between Christians and Muslims.