However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* Animal ( 2005 film ), US film by David J. Burke with Ving Rhames and Terrance Howard

The defense budget in 2005 totaled 1. 16 billion US Dollars.

Armenian dram per US dollar-310. 00 ( 2008 ), 457. 69 ( 2005 ), 533. 45 ( 2004 ), 578. 76 ( 2003 ), 573. 35 ( 2002 ), 555. 08 ( 2001 ), 539. 53 ( 2000 )

In 2005 the World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

In 2005 the US government body NIMH published the results of a major independent ( not funded by the pharmaceutical companies ) multi-site, double-blind study ( the CATIE project ).

In November 2005, the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the joint development of the AGM-88E AARGM missile.

** Bahamian dollars per US dollar-1 ( 2008 ), 1 ( 2007 ), 1 ( 2006 ), 1 ( 2005 ), 1 ( 2004 )

Communaute Financiere Africaine francs ( XAF ) per US dollar-481. 8 ( 2007 ), 522. 59 ( 2006 ), 527. 47 ( 2005 ), 528. 29 ( 2004 ), 581. 2 ( 2003

Chilean exports to the United States totaled US $ 9. 3 billion, representing a 37. 7 % increase compared to 2005 ( US $ 6. 7 billion ).

Exports to the European Union were US $ 15. 4 billion, a 63. 7 % increased compared to 2005 ( US $ 9. 4 billion ).

Exports to Asia increased from US $ 15. 2 billion in 2005 to US $ 19. 7 billion in 2006, a 29. 9 % increase.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

However, in October 2004, the Cuban government announced an end to this policy: from November US dollars would no longer be legal tender in Cuba, but would instead be exchanged for convertible pesos ( since April 2005 at the exchange rate of $ 1. 08 ) with a 10 % tax payable to the state on the exchange of US dollars cash — though not on other forms of exchange.

Colombian pesos ( COP ) per US dollar-2, 243. 6 ( 2008 ), 2, 013. 8 ( 2007 ), 2, 358. 6 ( 2006 ), 2, 320. 75 ( 2005 ), 2, 628. 61 ( 2004 )

This was followed by Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Two ( 1934 ) ( 2004 ; published in the US as The Bloody Crown of Conan ) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three ( 1935 – 1936 ) ( 2005 ; published in the US as The Conquering Sword of Conan ).

A 2003 compilation album, Classic Masters, was released only in the US, while 2005 saw the release of the album She Will Have Her Way, a collection of cover versions of Crowded House, Split Enz, Tim Finn and Finn Brothers songs by Australasian female artists.

* 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

Although Weah was still threatening to take his claims to the Supreme Court if no evidence of fraud was found, Johnson-Sirleaf was declared winner on November 23, 2005, and took office on January 16, 2006.

* 2005, Supreme Court Building, Singapore

In Florida, the state Supreme Court held in 2005 that no-contest convictions may be treated as prior convictions for the purposes of future sentencing.

In 2005, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

In February 2005, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections ' unwritten practice of racially segregating prisoners in its prison reception centers – which California claimed was for inmate safety ( gangs in California, as throughout the U. S., usually organize on racial lines )— is to be subject to strict scrutiny, the highest level of constitutional review.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

School vouchers are legally controversial in some states ; in 2005 the Florida Supreme Court found that school vouchers were unconstitutional under the Florida Constitution.

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 outlined plans for a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to replace the role of the Law Lords.

Female live-in partners have economic rights under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 subject to following conditions as laid by Honourable Supreme Court of India in case of D. Velusamy v D. Patchaiammal:

Michaëlle Jean reciting the oaths of office as administered by List of Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada | Puisne Justice Michel Bastarache on 27 September 2005

On May 31, 2005, in the case Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously reversed Andersen's conviction due to what it saw as serious flaws in the jury instructions.

The Virginia Supreme Court made this point clear in the case of Martin v. Ziherl 607 S. E. 2d 367 ( Va. 2005 ).

* Rebisse, Christian ( 2005 ) Rosicrucian History and Mysteries ( translation of Rebisse, Christian ( 2003 ) Rose-croix histoire et mysteres ) Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, San Jose, California, ISBN 1-893971-05-8

* Castle Rock v. Gonzales ( 2005 ), a U. S. Supreme Court case

In June 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a Quebec law preventing people from buying private health insurance to pay for medical services available through the publicly funded system and this ruling does not apply outside the province.

2389, was introduced in Congress in 2005 which, if enacted into law, would have stripped the Supreme Court and most federal courts of the power to consider any legal challenges to government requiring or promoting of the Pledge of Allegiance.

* Kelo v. City of New London, 2005 U. S. Supreme Court case on eminent domain

In light of its gains in the three 2005 elections and government appointments, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council became one of Iraq's most powerful political parties and was the largest party in the Iraqi Council of Representatives until the 2010 Iraqi elections, where it lost support due to Nuri Al-Maliki's political party rise.

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, casts his ballot at a poll station in Baghdad in the January, 2005 election.