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** removal of legislation criminalizing certain homosexual behaviors: lowering of the age of consent for homosexual sex to that for heterosexual sex ( since the French Revolution, France had never criminalized homosexuality between adults in private );
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** After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
** Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
** The Catholic Church calls for removal of the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, whose presence had offended some Jewish leaders.
** Reduction mammoplasty (" breast reduction "): removal of skin and glandular tissue, which is done to reduce back and shoulder pain in women with gigantomastia and / or for psychological benefit men with gynecomastia
** Labyrinthectomy ( surgical removal of the whole balance organ ) is more widely available as a treatment but causes total deafness in the affected ear.
** The tumor has been biopsied prior to removal or there is local spillage of tumor during surgery, confined to the flank.
** with plant-based systems of remediation, it is not possible to completely prevent the leaching of contaminants into the groundwater ( without the complete removal of the contaminated ground, which in itself does not resolve the problem of contamination )
** generating Hot Plug Detect ( HPD ) events for monitor arrival or removal upon switching, or not passing monitor power states-may cause the OS to re-detect the monitor and reset the resolution and refresh rate, or may cause the monitor to enter to or exit from power-saving mode ;
** Dr Gerrit Viljoen, Minister of Cooperation and Development announces that the forced removal of Blacks will be suspended
** Dr. Touretzky announces removal of RaisetheFist. com's Reclaim Guide from his CMU website to an external server.
** Mono Blue Control, which uses a heavy suite of counterspells alongside card-drawing such as, removal such as, and a win condition such as.
** Mono-Black Control, which uses removal spells such as and to control the board, and to kill the opponent with spells such as.
** Naya Lightsaber, which uses powerful creatures like and removal like, many of which also provide card advantage.
** The Enforcement and Removals Directorate was responsible for the identification, monitoring, and removal or deportation of immigration offenders.
** and legislation
** Gezeirah: " preventative legislation " of the Rabbis, intended to prevent violations of the commandments
** Takkanah: " positive legislation ", practices instituted by the Rabbis not based ( directly ) on the commandments
** The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring ( perestroika ) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev ( though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985 ).
** U. S. President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US $ 5. 3 billion.
** The Race Relations Act becomes the first legislation to address racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
** Since 1998 China is in the midst of drafting the new Property Law which is the first piece of national legislation that will define the land ownership structure in China for years to come.
** application decrees ( décrets d ' application ), each of which must be specifically authorized by one or more statutes to determine some implementation conditions of this or these statutes ; these constitute secondary legislation and are roughly equivalent to British statutory instruments ;
** autonomous regulations ( règlement autonomes ), which may be taken only in areas where the Constitution of France does not impose statute law ( passed by the legislative branch ); these constitute primary legislation ;
** Independent Crown entities ( ICE ), which are generally independent of government policy, such as the Commerce Commission, which enforces legislation promoting competition
** Virginia House of Delegates give preliminary approval to legislation that would ban the recognition of same-sex civil unions and domestic partnerships.
** In the U. S. state of Virginia, the House of Delegates gives preliminary approval to legislation that would ban the recognition of same-sex civil unions and partnerships.
** Republican lawmakers in the Indiana House of Representatives fail to introduce legislation for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, due to legal maneuvering by Democratic lawmakers in the House's leadership causing the Republicans to miss the 2004 deadline for introducing new legislation.
** Liberals: Paul Martin attacks Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party for their position on abortion and for Harper's support of using the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution to exempt some legislation from being affected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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