The case for abolishing Bank Holidays applies even more to weekends and conventional working days. |
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Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry has more than doubled its visitors after abolishing admission charges. |
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Is the Minister aware of any country in the world that has held a referendum prior to abolishing the right of appeal to the Privy Council? |
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In the late 1820s Georgia passed legislation abolishing tribal governments and abrogating the civil rights of Indians. |
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They proposed a referendum on abolishing the monarchy, and setting up a republic. |
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They are not cheap compared with traditional funds, which are moving towards abolishing upfront fees. |
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Indeed, one of the major arguments against abolishing the monarchy is the desire to preserve tradition. |
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He suggested that abolishing the current system would discourage firms from advancing credit. |
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This put the wind back in the sails of Wilberforce who succeeded in pushing through a bill abolishing the slave trade. |
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The best argument for keeping the BBC is to imagine what we would gain by abolishing the corporation or forcing it to accept adverts. |
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The society added that abolishing the current system of debt recovery would discourage firms from advancing credit or lending money. |
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The 1989 Act makes no specific reference to the doctrine of part performance, neither continuing it nor abolishing it. |
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They have been busy abolishing the people when and wherever they suspect them not to have been their vote bank. |
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When the Basques supported the Carlist rebellion of the 1870s, the Spanish government retaliated by abolishing the fueros. |
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No Democrats talk about nationalizing industries, and no Republicans talk about abolishing Social Security or Medicare. |
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I agree, but abolishing the death penalty wouldn't mean that we would let crimes go unpunished. |
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Last year, he attacked the Scottish Executive for breaching his human rights by abolishing the feudal system. |
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It is time to call its bluff and close down the entire trough by abolishing the Arts Council and all its works and pomps. |
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The unilateralists would weaken the Western coalition now by abolishing our nuclear weapons. |
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Naturally, Feldstein claims that abolishing the estate tax would actually increase total tax revenues. |
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It makes no sense to argue, as do unilateralists, that abolishing nuclear weapons on one side only is a reasonable goal. |
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The rebels are spearheading a violent campaign to set up a republican state by abolishing constitutional monarchy in Nepal. |
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The Roberts case led to the first law abolishing racial segregation in the nation. |
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The agreement came about very much on German initiative, because the Germans were fearful about abolishing the Deutschmark in favour of a European currency. |
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The frostiness of the relationship has raised speculation that the Government will consider abolishing the licence fee in its forthcoming review of the BBC's charter. |
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Nevertheless, to achieve this feat of the abolishing bigamy, society must be educated about the ills of the practice. |
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I regret the Council's decision not to bite the bullet as far as abolishing C-sugar is concerned. |
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It is already abolishing an automatic right of entry for applicants from its network of affiliated secondary schools. |
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The field of feminist studies has appropriated Derrida's deconstructionist theses with the aim of abolishing the apriorisms of patriarchy. |
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Mrs Angle is disavowing her previous musings about privatising social security, abolishing Medicare and otherwise slashing government. |
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John Major came within an ace of abolishing it altogether. If that had happened, few voices would have been raised in protest. |
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More importantly, a final solution will only be found by revolutionising society and abolishing exploitation. |
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The abolishing of gladiatorial fights or death sentence is viewed today as a progress. |
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The Uzbek state is committed to abolishing the death penalty, adopting habeas corpus and ratifying international treaties against child labour. |
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The new anti-trust framework will lighten the legislative burden by abolishing the system of notification system. |
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He says that abolishing tolls on tollways will just make them more congested and that all major roads need to be tollways if congestion is to be avoided. |
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We think that abolishing the death penalty is fundamental to safeguarding human rights. |
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Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada has committed itself to protecting children and abolishing harmful forms of child labour. |
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The State of Qatar has adopted a sound approach by abolishing the Ministry of Information and lifting censorship of the press and publications. |
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Now, the world has the opportunity to take a great step: abolishing nuclear weapons. |
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They discussed ways to break the cycle of violence, including reducing access to guns and abolishing the death penalty. |
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To be sure, a consistent literary and cultural studies' program does not imply the abolishing of German or other national philologies. |
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Furthermore, a whole range of measures had been taken with a view to effectively abolishing the death penalty. |
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The State party should consider abolishing the death penalty and ratifying the second Optional Protocol to the Covenant. |
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Koreans are now divided over the sensitive issue of abolishing the system. |
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The government is also considering abolishing the steadfast paternal system where only a man qualifies as the head of a family, regardless of age or financial resources. |
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Similarly, three years later, the government managed to win parliamentary approval for only a watered-down version of the measure abolishing religious orders. |
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One of those clever but acned young men at Central Office has worked out that, after abolishing verbs, the Prime Minister won two landslide election victories. |
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But it is hard not to ponder whether more intelligent constitutional reform could have refashioned the assembly in a useful way, rather than simply abolishing it. |
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Simplifying income tax is an idea with wide appeal, and by abolishing special reliefs you could raise personal allowances sharply, taking low incomes out of tax altogether. |
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has signalled that he intends retaining the controversial Groceries Order, despite admitting that abolishing it would bring down prices. |
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It's frankly naive to believe that simply by abolishing 15-minute slots a magic wand will have been waved, and improvements automatically achieved in our care services. |
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But what about the abolishing of the back pass and the tackle from behind? |
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One needn't indulge utopian fantasies about abolishing government corruption or dealing a death blow to the power of monied interests in politics. |
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When our founding mothers and fathers wrote the Constitution, they took a major step forward in terms of progressive policies, by abolishing capital punishment. |
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In our contention the Court of Appeal wrongly regarded the 1993 Act as abolishing more than the consequences in criminal law and in tort of champertous conduct. |
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This new government, however, managed to alienate the native population by seizing clerically held lands, closing religious schools, and abolishing shariat courts. |
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In compliance with this Article, Turkey has now adopted a law abolishing these courts. |
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The more people that paid income tax, Gladstone believed, the more the public would pressure the government into abolishing it. |
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Reference has been made to the Jones act in the United States. which has been in place since the 1920s and which the United States has studiously refused and resisted abolishing, including during the NAFTA negotiations. |
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The cuts proposed by officials at the Department for Work and Pensions include abolishing statutory maternity pay and barring under-25s from claiming incapacity benefit or housing benefit. |
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The bill sets a precedent by recognizing the right to life of the fetus, which would lead to a restriction on the right to abortion or even pave the way for abolishing this right. |
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This is harmonisation for the sake of it and we are in favour of abolishing VAT at European level and in favour of a highly progressive tax on company profits and on capital income. |
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In a related report, Garnsey includes estimates that up to 450 serious injuries and 104 deaths annually could be prevented by abolishing GMT, potentially saving the NHS £200m a year. |
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We have voted against completely abolishing ex ante financial control. |
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The last amendment introduced by the Dutch authorities will make it easier to create a company in the Netherlands, by abolishing the statutory capital requirement of EUR 18 000 for a limited liability company. |
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Within the FATF, the OECD and United Nations committees, we have for years been discussing the problem of regulating off shore centres and, not to beat around the bush, of abolishing tax havens. |
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The question is whether the people as a slow-moving inertial mass can act quickly enough to stop a single family from abolishing democracy. |
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What is he waiting for to give the go-ahead to a bill that would have an immediate impact, when they have no plans for abolishing parole after one-sixth of the sentence has been served? |
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If you will pardon me for saying so, Mr Kinnock, what you are proposing is a little like abolishing the police because they were unable to prevent crimes. |
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To the minister of finance, who must allocate a sufficient share of the budget to primary education and make schools affordable by abolishing fees and providing poor families with an adequate wage. |
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Consequently, with our European partners, we shall continue pressing the case for abolishing the embargo, while ensuring that the decision is accompanied by full guarantees of very strict control over future arms sales. |
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Although abolishing export subsidies in one of our major importing sectors was the right thing to do, it would be pure lunacy to abandon our own production and let the world come to us. |
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The party does not have any members of the House of Lords, as it advocates abolishing the unelected upper chamber. |
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The PDPA pushed for a socialist transformation by abolishing arranged marriages, promoting mass literacy and reforming land ownership. |
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The nation state promoted economic unity, by abolishing internal customs and tolls. |
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Since World War II there has been a trend toward abolishing capital punishment. |
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Since World War II, there has been a trend toward abolishing the death penalty. |
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The Married Persons Equality Act 2006 gives equal rights to wives in regard to their husbands, abolishing the husband's marital power. |
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Cromwell capitalised on that phrase, abolishing both upon founding the Commonwealth of England. |
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From 1850 to 1880 the Norwegian shipping industry enjoyed a large boom, stimulated by the abolishing of the British Navigation Acts. |
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By abolishing the old 11pm rush, ministers hoped to promote a more restrained drinking culture, although critics feared it would merely encourage obnoxious revelry around the clock. |
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While such cases may be few and far between, I see no reason why the complainant should not be entitled to rely on the interests served by abolishing the impugned requirement. |
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They also say that the computer glitches and administrative problems have now been resolved so that abolishing the registry would make no sense now. |
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So, for example, holding a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, abolishing quangos, and the Tories' plans for local government and school reform all featured beneath the rubric of redistributing power. |
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This working group shrewdly presented its objective as a search for coordination, with a view to abolishing the regimes clearly the furthest removed from the rationale of most systems. |
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In abolishing slavery, you abolish that calling of the men-stealer, and in abolishing that calling you abolish slavery. |
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The Government of Canada proposed abolishing the Indian Act within a five year period, dissolving reserves and assimilating Indians into Canadian society. |
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Europe must not reduce its support for livestock farmers, as it seems intent upon doing, by abolishing the premium for suckling cows or reducing cattle quotas, etc. |
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This move will open the floodgates to abolishing subsidies on a whole series of products which pseudo-scientific 'studies' will label as harmful to the environment. |
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This dovetails with the government's larger aims of whitening the black economy, establishing the rule of law and abolishing unwarranted privilege. |
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I speak the more freely, as the best time for abolishing this ridiculous custom is while the prince is a man of virtue and the poet a man of genius. |
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The Pope welcomed the fact that Llywelyn was abolishing this custom. |
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The track layout was reorganised in 1967, abolishing the distinction between arrival and departure platforms that had been a feature of Paddington since opening. |
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This silence, however, was broken in 1998, when the Queen announced the Government's plan of abolishing the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. |
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After the 1807 act abolishing the slave trade was passed, these campaigners switched to encouraging other countries to follow suit, notably France and the British colonies. |
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The Act also made it a crime to assert the authority of any foreign prince, prelate, or other authority, and was aimed at abolishing the authority of the Pope in England. |
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In abolitionist countries, the debate is sometimes revived by particularly brutal murders though few countries have brought it back after abolishing it. |
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In Italy, parts of society also dramatically changed during the Enlightenment, with rulers such as Leopold II of Tuscany abolishing the death penalty in Tuscany. |
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Regarding safety at level crossings, Network Rail is its own worst enemy for abolishing manned signal boxes and relying on radar systems to monitor barriers. |
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Under the terms of Amiens, however, Napoleon agreed to appease British demands by not abolishing slavery in any colonies where the 1794 decree had never been implemented. |
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The Scottish government has enacted health policies which are different from those in England, such as abolishing charges for prescriptions and elderly personal care. |
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From here on out, the team and the coaching staff will employ a wait and see approach if the abolishing of the morning shootaround is a permanent fixture in the program. |
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All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
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The lesson to take away from Paul is not to be a semi-racist, isolationist politician who advocates for legalizing heroin and abolishing the Federal Reserve. |
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The New Zealand dollar surged in the wake of China's announcement it would allow all couples to have two children, abolishing its unpopular one-child policy. |
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So although abolishing peremptories isn't a silver bullet, it's nonetheless a powerful bullet to equalize talent and force trials to be conducted on the merits. |
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