Although it was not legally recognized until 1982, the CGT was originally formed in 1970 by the Christian Democrats and received external support from the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) and the Latin American Workers Central ( Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores — CLAT ), a regional organization supported by Christian Democratic parties.

Although Kemp coaxed Bush to support a $ 4 billion housing program that encouraged public housing tenants to buy their own apartments, the Democratic Congress allocated only $ 361 million to the plan.

Although the Mekong was established as a border by French colonial forces, travel from one side to the other has been significantly limited only since the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR, or Laos ) in 1975.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

Although the Republican Party and Democratic Party chapters in Puerto Rico have selected voting delegates to the national nominating conventions since the early 1900s, public interest in these processes heightened as a result of the efforts of a group of Democratic statehooders led by Franklin Delano López in 1976 to elect delegates supporting former Georgia Gov.

Although he did not attend the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, his name was put forward as Indiana's choice for president.

Although there is not an explicitly-labeled " left " or " right " designation of the party, it is considered by many to be more right-wing than the Democratic Party but more left-wing than the Republican Party when comparing the parties ' positions to each other.

According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.

Although many observers from the 1880s onward predicted that Yankee politicians would be no match for new generations of ethnic politicians, the presence of Yankees at the top tier of modern American politics was typified by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean ( as well, to some observers, by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Forbes Kerry, descendant through his mother, of the Scottish Forbes family, which emigrated to Massachusetts the 1750s ).

Although considered something of a political joke at first — one Democratic television commercial featured hearty laughter as the camera panned to a TV with the words " Vice President Spiro Agnew?

Although winning the Democratic primary is normally tantamount to election in heavily Democratic Chicago, after his primary victory Washington found that his Republican opponent, former state legislator Bernard Epton ( earlier considered a nominal stand-in ), was supported by many white Democrats and ward organizations, including the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, Alderman Edward " Fast Eddie " Vrdolyak.

Although Southerners disliked the New Yorker Van Buren as well as his intended running mate, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, Van Buren secured the nomination at a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 1835 Democratic National Convention.

Although a growing number of the party's conservatives — especially in the South — had grown increasingly skeptical of Roosevelt's economic and social policies, few of them dared to publicly oppose Roosevelt, and he was renominated easily when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago.

Although not approved by Allies at Potsdam, hundreds of thousands of ethnic German living in Yugoslavia and Romania were deported to slave labour in the Soviet Union, to Allied-occupied Germany, and subsequently to the German Democratic Republic, Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Although closely identified with the Republican Party for virtually his entire adult life, Dewey was a close friend of Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Dewey aided Humphrey in being named as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1964, advising Lyndon Johnson on ways to block efforts at the party convention by Kennedy loyalists to stampede Robert Kennedy onto the ticket as Johnson's running mate.

Although the Tories were re-elected in 1988 campaigning on free trade, they won with only 43 % of the popular vote, compared to 56 % of the vote which went to the Liberals and the New Democratic Party who campaigned mostly against the agreement.

Although the People's Revolutionary Party, the South Vietnamese communist party, was the front's " paramount member ", there were two other parties in the NLF, the Democratic Party and the Radical Socialist Party.

Although Monroe County has voted for the Democratic candidate since 1992, it is a close county in presidential elections ; it was won by the Democratic Party by margins of 5 % in 2008 and 0. 5 % in 2004.

Although Bukharin had not challenged Stalin since 1929, his former supporters, including Martemyan Ryutin, drafted and clandestinely circulated an anti-Stalin platform, which called Stalin the “ evil genius of the Russian Revolution ”.

Although the Panamera will be a 4-door model, Road and Track magazine published a speculative piece in their April 2006 issue regarding the possibility of a new, 928-esque coupe that may debut on a shortened version of the Panamera's platform sometime around 2011 or 2012 model year.

Although the project failed, it served as an almost undisputed platform of Slovene political activity in the following decades.

Although White Dwarf has always served as a promotions and advertising platform for Games Workshop and Citadel products, some of its longer term fans have noted that the current incarnation seems to be more geared towards sales and promotion of new releases than it was in the past.

Although Bryan ran again on a silver platform in the 1900 presidential election, the issue failed to produce the same resonance with the voters.

Although it is often assumed that the text describes Solomon as standing on this platform, the text could equally be read stood next to.

Although there have been plans for a new platform for some time to increase capacity, it was the need to minimise disruption during restoration when other platforms would be temporarily out of use that led to this being built.

Although the platform was eventually supported by several Unix flavours as well as Windows NT and OS / 2, these operating systems generally ran just as well on Intel-based hardware so there was little reason to use the PReP systems.

Although the Great Exhibition was a platform on which countries from around the world could display their achievements, Great Britain sought to prove its own superiority.

Although the elected members of the Legislative Yuan did not have the majority to defeat legislation, they were able to use the Legislature Yuan as a platform to express political dissent.

Although based on the FM platform used by the V36 generation Skyline, the GT-R uses an evolved Premium Midship ( PM ) platform.

Although successful in its goal of bringing games to the Linux platform, the company was eventually forced to close due to financial troubles, with it declaring Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in August 2001, and finally being disbanded in January 2002.

Although he regularly clashed with Whitehouse, the academic Richard Hoggart shared some of her opinions and was present on the platform with her at this first public meeting.

Although several other Linux distributions support the Power Architecture, Yellow Dog Linux was distinguished for its focus on supporting the Apple Macintosh platform before the Apple – Intel transition.

" Although only directly reflective of the UK market, this was interpreted by some as a serious blow to the N-Gage as a viable gaming platform.

Although remakes typically aim to adapt a game from a more limited platform to a more advanced one, a rising interest in older platforms has inspired some to do the opposite, adapting modern games to the standards of older platforms, sometimes even programming them for dead hardware.

Although construction of the section of the MDR tube route east of South Kensington had been postponed, a partial, long, section of the westbound MDR platform was built along with the two for GNP & BR use.

Although the short title " Stewart Platform " is now used for this jack layout, it would be fairer to Eric Gough to call it a " Gough / Stewart platform ".

) Although the 1955 Hudson used the inner body shell of the Nash, the car incorporated a front cowl originally designed by Spring and the Hudson team to be put on the 1954 Step-Down platform.

Although many people expected Huey Long, the colorful Democratic senator from Louisiana, to run as a third-party candidate with his " Share Our Wealth " program as his platform, his bid was cut short when he was assassinated in September 1935.

* Vendor Lock-in: Although MDA was conceived as an approach for achieving ( technical ) platform independence, current MDA vendors have been reluctant to engineer their MDA toolsets to be interoperable.

Although it had been recommended to ezboard to move towards SQL and away from Smalltalk as early as 1999, the company did not act on these recommendations until many years later when the Yuku platform was developed.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

Although most of the members of the community signed a document issued by Hasan Ali Shah summarizing the practices of the Ismailis, a group of dissenting Khojas surprisingly asserted that the community had always been Sunni.

Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 ( based on agreements made earlier in the century ), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.

Although the NPC generally approves State Council policy and personnel recommendations, the NPC and its standing committee has increasingly asserted its role as the national legislature and has been able to force revisions in some laws.

Although King stated that he had no personal interest in video games as a hobby, he criticized the proposed law, which he sees as an attempt by politicians to scapegoat pop culture, and to act as surrogate parents to others ' children, which he asserted is usually " disastrous " and " undemocratic ".

Although not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, Congress has also long asserted the power to investigate and the power to compel cooperation with an investigation.

Although his father left an estate of nearly fourteen talents, ( equivalent to about 220 years of a laborer's income at standard wages, or 11 million dollars in terms of median US annual incomes ) Demosthenes asserted his guardians had left nothing " except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae " ( 30 minae = ½ talent ).

" Although he later asserted that the magazine misquoted him and the quotation was taken out of context, Stern stood by its story, as did CNN. com in its coverage of the interview.

Although Papon claimed that he had used ordinary trains, and not livestock trains as used by the SNCF in numerous other transfers, the historians asserted that he was trying to prevent any demonstration of sympathy toward the Jews from the local population.

" Although he admitted that what he called " real " mathematics may someday become useful, he asserted that, at the time in which the Apology was written, only the " dull and elementary parts " of either pure or applied mathematics could " work for good or ill ."

Although, as adopted in 1937, Article 3 of the constitution asserted the " right of the parliament and government established by this constitution to exercise jurisdiction " over the whole of Ireland, it also provided that pending the " re-integration of the national territory " Acts of the Oireachtas would not apply to Northern Ireland.

Although traditionally having had ties with the community of Norse settlers in northern Scotland, Scottish rulers had increasingly asserted their sovereignty over the entire mainland.

Although he admitted that MacNeil's departure had been a " colossal fracture " he also asserted that " if ever there was a time to regroup, rethink and re-strategise, it was there and then.

Although it has been asserted that St John was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, his name does not appear on registers for either institution and there is no evidence to support either claim.

Although not the first time that the demand curve had been drawn, it was the first time that it had been proved rather than asserted.

Although it is sometimes asserted in policy debates that heterosexual couples are inherently better parents than same-sex couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children raised by heterosexual parents, those assertions are not supported by scientific research literature.

Although concerns over hazards from allergic reactions have been asserted, the FDA has not banned the use of carmine and states it found no evidence of a " significant hazard " to the general population.

Although his biographer son largely discounted Laing's account of his childhood, an obituary by an acquaintance of Laing asserted that about his parent – " the full truth he told only to a few close friends ".

Although psychiatrists for both the Texas State prosecutors and Yates ' defense lawyers agreed that she was severely mentally ill with one of several psychotic diseases at the time she killed her children, the state of Texas asserted that she was by legal definition aware enough to judge her actions as right or wrong despite her mental defect.

Although Lindsey did not claim to know the dates of future events with any certainty, he suggested that Matthew 24: 32-34 indicated that Jesus ' return might be within " one generation " of the rebirth of the state of Israel, and the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, and Lindsey asserted that " in the Bible " one generation is forty years.

Although by 1975, with the death of the secretary, the original leadership had died out and the jurisdiction of the Paris Group came to a definite legal end ; it is asserted that the tradition has been maintained by the Priory of Dacia, ( which was acknowledged as a legal part of the Union ) together with a number of descendants of the Hereditary Commanders associated with the Russian Grand Priory Association.

Although the Saxon and Dane were, Davis asserted, objects of unpopularity, their descendants would be Irish if they simply allowed themselves to be.

Although Owens was eager to leave the 49ers, the 49ers asserted that Owens ' previous agent, David Joseph, had missed the deadline to void the final years of his contract with the team.

Although the restaurant had been operating under the name " Cordon Bleu " since 1963, and the owners asserted that no one could have mistakenly believed any connection between their " little hick restaurant " with the corporate giant, they felt that taking the issue to court would have bankrupted them.