At the time of its abolition, the Assay Commission was the oldest existing government commission.
At the time of the abolition of the old law, there were 5,413 patients in leprosaria, whose average length of stay was more than 40 years and whose average age was 72 years old.
Plenty of European Union policies seemed visionary, or even reckless, when first suggested, but have come to be accepted with the passage of time: the abolition of frontier controls, the establishment of a single currency, even the admission of relatively poor countries such as Spain and Portugal in the 1980s or Poland today.Visionary leadership is all very well if the statesmen get it right.
It is time for abolition.
George Osborne has given universities what they have wanted for some time: the abolition of the student number cap.
Although convinced that the free propagation of ideas was more important than specific reforms, he was an early advocate of almost all the Radical causes of his time, including the abolition of monarchy, completely secular education, and the emancipation of women.
To few, however, did Bradbury give as much time and attention as he did to the affairs of the British Council, of whose literary work, at one time very much under threat of abolition, he was an invaluable supporter.
Distinctive features include the absence of the virgin birth and of the genealogy of Jesus; an Adoptionist Christology, in which Jesus is chosen to be God's Son at the time of his Baptism; the abolition of the Jewish sacrifices by Jesus; and an advocacy of vegetarianism.
At the time of the death penalty's abolition in each developed country, a majority similar to America's, currently about 65%, wanted to keep it, according to opinion polls.
The two groups did not differ in terms of abolition of cough reflex and conduction times (Table 3).
