Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

[...] We're really proud of what we've done, whether critics like us or not, whether we've won Grammys or not, whether any of that stuff.

" A tax " is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority " and is " any contribution imposed by government [...] whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name.

He became a minor celebrity during the two months of volcanic activity preceding the eruption, giving interviews to reporters and expressing his opinion that the danger from the volcano was exaggerated, saying " I don't have any idea whether it will blow [...] But I don't believe it to the point that I'm going to pack up.

On each occasion the allegation that there had been a policy of ' recruit to dilute ' was rejected, however, at first instance the judge described the Names as the innocent victims [...] of staggering incompetence and at appeal the Court found that representations that Lloyd's had a rigorous auditing system were false ( 376 of the judgment: [...] the answer to the question [...] whether there was in existence a rigorous system of auditing which involved the making of a reasonable estimate of outstanding liabilities, including unknown and unnoted losses, is no.

" During a parliamentary debate in Britain on 6 December 1977, Foreign Secretary David Owen replied in the negative when asked " whether Her Majesty's Government intend to recognise travel documents issued by the authorities of [...] Bophuthatswana for the purpose of admitting visitors to the United Kingdom.

[...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

According to some interpreters the " in -" of " in-existence " is to be read as locative, i. e. as indicating that " an intended object [...] exists in or has in-existence, existing not externally but in the psychological state " ( Jacquette 2004, p. 102 ), while others are more cautious, affirming that: " It is not clear whether in 1874 this [...] was intended to carry any ontological commitment " ( Chrudzimski and Smith 2004, p. 205 ).

[...] In fact, I don't know whether I like even being called a Christian.

[...] Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen.

[...] I must know whether America is right or wrong.

A good big lion will weigh about 400 lb [...] the hybrid in question, weighing as it does no less than 467 lb, is certainly the superior of the most well-grown lions, whether wild-bred or born in a menagerie.

Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children that are slaves by birth [...] should by virtue of their baptism be made free, it is enacted that baptism does not alter the condition to the person as to his bondage or freedom ; masters freed from this doubt may more carefully propagate Christianity by permitting slaves to be admitted to that sacrament .”

It is enacted that all servants [...] which shall be imported into this country either by sea or by land, whether Negroes, Moors North Africans, mulattoes or Indians who and whose parentage and native countries are not Christian at the time of their first purchase by some Christian [...] and all Indians, which shall be sold by our neighboring Indians, or any other trafficking with us for slaves, are hereby adjudged, deemed and taken to be slaves to all intents and purposes any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding .”

: The cause of this universal fog is not yet ascertained [...] or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing, to issue during the summer from Hekla in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds, over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain.

Historian John Birkenmeier notes that: " Byzantium's lack of a navy [...] meant that Venice could regularly extort economic privileges, determine whether invaders, such as the Normans or Crusaders entered the Empire, and parry any Byzantine attempts to restrict Venetian commercial or naval activity.

According to Baird ( 1992 ), Schenzinger's version is a " thinly veiled parallel to Resurrection ": When his comrades were gathered around his death bed and wonder whether he is still alive, there " suddenly [...] is a scream.

[...] In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.

In those big stone houses [...] some could easily have hidden in the cellars and back rooms, keeping quiet when the paratroopers went in to check and yell out a warning.

In 2006, Entertainment Weeklys website EW. com gave the overall series ( the review was made early after the fifth season premiere ) a grade of " A -", with the author saying " Scrubs is the trickiest comedy on TV [...] A likable, daffy, buoyant series that would be a big annoying mess if it weren't done just right, Scrubs is the very definition of nimble ".

[...] When they have got together a great quantity of milk, which is as sweet as cow's as long as it is fresh, they pour it into a big skin or bottle, and they set to churning it with a stick [...] and when they have beaten it sharply it begins to boil up like new wine and to sour or ferment, and they continue to churn it until they have extracted the butter.

No big scene [...] Music in opera is far too predominant.

" AllMusic wrote, " Since the Manics deliver these charged lyrics as heavy guitar-rockers, the music doesn't always hit quite as forcefully as intended ", stating that the " relatively polished production and big guitar sound occasionally sell the music short, especially the lesser songs ", but calling the band's passion " undeniable, even on the weaker cuts [...] Debut albums rarely come as ambitious as the Manic Street Preachers ' Generation Terrorists.

" Hot Press reviewer Peter Murphy described the album as " an emotionally forthright record " and called it " a record of at least two minds: scuffed rooming-house madrigals [...] contrasted with big, fat, bleeding heart ballads.

Leagues O ' Toole has described it as an " enormously successful, award-winning, established brand [...] aimed at a young audience out for a good time, a post-Leaving Cert rite of passage perfect for acts with big singalong tunes that sound great in the mud ".

" For me it's a great victory to have a big red box, the first red box in any studio feature [...] it's right in your face: You're not allowed to see this in our country.

The air in the areas where we could find an apartment big enough for us at a reasonable price is frightful [...] you cannot make any noise.

The new version, described by Steinman to the press as " a big, Wagnerian musical with lots of humor [...] a lot of it is pure Mel Brooks and a lot of it Anne Rice " and to the by-invitation-only audience as a musical for " people who think musicals suck ," was met with a mixed reception.

Allmusic describes rap metal as having " big, lurching beats and heavy, heavy riffs " that " occasionally [...] as if the riffs were merely overdubbed over scratching and beat box beats ", and described rap rock as having a more organic sound, characterizing many songs in the genre as rock songs in which the vocals were rapped rather than sung.

[...] Watching over the scene [...], Carol II exclaimed to his intimate assistants: — I don't have a big enough tooshie for all the politicians to kiss!

[...] It was a big mistake.

It is so big [...] She's just so ...

[...] It's the big regulatory issue of the next 10 years: how politicians deal with Google.

[...] on another occasion they had him drink before the show, big drinks.

Jean Rosenbluth of Los Angeles Times praised the song, saying " Houston's elegant ' Exhale ( Shoop Shoop )' [...] exude maturity without resorting to the relentlessly big vocals that characterize so many R & B records aiming for adult audiences.

[...] Mr. Holbrooke can do quite easily and unconsciously what Strauss has only done half a dozen times in his career-he can write a big, heartfelt melody that searches us to the very bone ; and the musicians who have this gift as their birthright have a charmed life among a thousand shipwrecks.

[...] He was a big fan of the show.

[...] We were at that point where everyone in a band wants to get, right where the financial stuff isn't going to be such a big deal, where we'd be able to tour and take personal space, but our relationships had deteriorated so much by that point.

[...] It does a better job than the two big singles of delineating the boundaries of Madonna's determined shallowness, an act that confounds Philistines today and made the appreciation of her musical skills a lot harder than it took these critics to dismiss Cyndi Lauper as the real charlatan.

I just went about my business and did things my way [...] You start messing with my music, I get mean " In 1972, his recording contract was nearing an end.

The business interests are represented by two general stores, a fine hotel, drug store, restaurant, livery, meat market, blacksmith shop, saw mill, flouring mill, numerous fruit packers and shippers and other pursuits [...] with a bright present, a prosperous and large future lies before the town.

Eric Erlandson also responded to the rumors, saying, " There is no Hole without me [...] on a business level.

Frankly, I find it kind of flattering, not threatening [...] To be honest, I believe that if the music industry had used downloading and file sharing properly, it would have increased their business, not eaten into it.

According to activist Guy Aoki " if that was his intention, he failed miserably ,” and “ what you had instead was every character going on for pages about how unfair Japanese business practices are [...] the book was a very one-sided view of what the Japanese are doing, saying that there's reason to not trust them and not like them.

With business partner Rebekah Hay, she announced in 2010 that she would be opening Pammy's " the world's first legal bordello [...] exclusively for female clients.

Senior headman Ingwafa complained in 2008 that " Oshikango [...] is on the verge of being sold completely to Chinese business people ".

Unfortunately pop, is often about eye-candy [...] It can be hard to be eighteen and to be in this business, your album is huge, and these people twenty years your senior are seeing you as a product.