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Among and bills
Among the defeated bills was one allowing merchant ships to arm themselves, and another allowing the US government to make direct arms sales to the allies.
Among the most notable of the successful bills was the Commonwealth Electoral Bill 1924, which introduced compulsory voting for federal elections.
Among the bills sponsored by Shelby over the years have been bills to make English the sole language of the federal government, to limit federal government spending by statute, and to provide a moratorium on certain forms of immigration.
Among the bills that Bereuter sponsored is the Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004.
Among the bills that did pass the session were a mandatory seat belt law, a law requiring children under 16 years old to wear a helmet when operating an all-terrain vehicle, and legislation allowing the Ten Commandments to be posted on Capitol grounds in a historical context.
Among other important bills, the commission adopted the Law on Social Development and Family Allowances, which gave the country a non-contributory pension scheme, which now covers more than a hundred thousand elderly ( citation required ).
Among his constitutional duties are signing the bills into the law, appointing the ministers on the recommendation of the prime minister and appointing various other state officials: generals, professors, judges, rectors, procurators and such.
Among the bills he vetoed included the building of a statewide system of state roads, a cause he supported, but chose to sacrifice for fiscal prudence and accountability.
Among other subjects, he introduced bills to regulate the use by slaveowners of " manager slaves " and to acquire the Alamo as a state monument.
Among notable bills he introduced were for appropriating $ 100, 000 for a federal building in Saginaw and $ 25, 000 for an Indian school at Mt.
Among the bills sponsored by Congressman Brooks were the Single Audit Act of 1984, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1991, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
Among the 300 or so bills he has authored or co-authored, he is most proud of eventual laws that:
Among the relief bills he introduced was a request to reimburse Solomon Warner US $ 2227. 50 for hardware and gunpowder that had been taken from him during the American Civil War.
Among the few pieces of legislation that passed during the session were bills reorganizing the highway department, making the state Board of Charities a partisan entity, and further removing the Fish and Game Commission from the control of sportsmen.

Among and fostered
Among some groups, such as Jews, the ubiquitous use of such an official nationality on identity papers and records was viewed as a factor that fostered discrimination against them.
Among the many reasons for Diamond to receive this award it was cited that he fostered dialogue between Jewish and Muslim students.

Among and while
Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended.
Among leaf litter frogs in Panama, frogs that actively hunt prey have narrow mouths and are slim, often brightly coloured and toxic, while ambushers have wide mouths and are broad and well camouflaged.
Among the neo-Platonists and eventually their Christian interpreters, Aphrodite Ourania figures as the celestial Aphrodite, representing the love of body and soul, while Aphrodite Pandemos is associated with mere physical love.
Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.
Among much broader goals, the Lollards affirmed a form of consubstantiation — that the Eucharist remained physically bread and wine, while becoming spiritually the body and blood of Christ.
Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).
During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.
Among the Indian leaders, Gandhi emphatically insisted on maintaining a united India and for a while successfully rallied people to this goal.
Among contemporary poems teikei ( 定型 fixed form ) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while jiyuritsu ( 自由律 free form ) haiku do not.
( Among other things, Presentation Manager placed X, Y coordinate 0, 0 at the bottom left of the screen like Cartesian coordinates, while Windows put 0, 0 at the top left of the screen like most other computer window systems.
Among several others, they highlight the fact that maintaining a judicial system, a fundamental requirement of the civil right to due process before the law and other rights relating to judicial process, is positive, resource-intensive, progressive and vague, while the social right to housing is precise, justiciable and can be a real ' legal ' right.
Among undergraduate fields of study, science, technology, engineering, math, and business generally offer the highest wages and best chances of employment, while education, communication, and liberal arts degrees generally offer lower wages and a lower likelihood of employment.
Among his written works there are Siete años enterrado vivo en una de las mazmorras de Gomezuela: Horripilante relato de un resucitado ( 1932 ) and Mis prisiones, mis destierros y mi vida ( 1929 ) which talk about his many adventures while living his life as an adventurer, activist and vagabond, as well as his thought and the many times he was imprisoned in different countries.
Among these men was Heracles ' servant Hylas who was gathering water while Heracles was out finding some wood to carve a new oar to replace the one that broke.
Among semantics of language, lexical semantics is most robust, and to some extend the phrase semantics too, while other types of linguistic semantics are new and not quite examined.
Among the indicators that might be used to establish an initial minimum wage rate are ones that minimize the loss of jobs while preserving international competitiveness.
Among other changes, its young hero was given a newly-invented aristocratic mentor ( played by Granger ), while the role of the working class Elzevir Block was minimized.
Among other things, the lawsuit sought an injunction to prevent the Buccaneers and Panthers from wearing their uniforms while playing in California.
Among his sons, Giacomo ( died 1379 ) was created cardinal by Gregory XI in 1371, while Nicola ( August 27, 1331 – February 14, 1399 ) obtained the counties of Ariano and Celano.
Among those who believe in supernatural beings, some believe there is just one God ( monotheism ), while others, such as Hindus, believe in many different deities ( polytheism ) while maintaining that all are manifestations of one God.
One interesting result Eysenck noted in his 1956 work was that in the United States and Great Britain, most of the political variance was subsumed by the left / right axis, while in France, the T-axis was larger, and in the Middle East, the only dimension to be found was the T-axis: " Among mid-Eastern Arabs it has been found that while the tough-minded / tender-minded dimension is still clearly expressed in the relationships observed between different attitudes, there is nothing that corresponds to the radical-conservative continuum.
Among the numbers 1 to 6, the numbers 2, 3, and 5 are the prime numbers, while 1, 4, and 6 are not prime.

Among and minority
Among the minority, in Trent, that showed opposition to these books ' inclusion were Cardinals Seripando and Cajetan, the latter an opponent of Luther at Augsburg.
Among its first duties was the forcible seizure of tithes during the " Tithe War " on behalf of the Anglican clergy from the mainly Catholic population as well as the Presbyterian minority.
Among DuMont's minority programs were The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, starring Asian American film actress Anna May Wong, the first U. S. television show to star an Asian American, and The Hazel Scott Show, starring pianist and singer Hazel Scott, the first U. S. network television series to be hosted by a black woman.
Among other challenges, the consensus scoring criterion means that it is impossible to create items ( questions ) that only a minority of respondents can solve, because, by definition, responses are deemed emotionally " intelligent " only if the majority of the sample has endorsed them.
Among the three new council members were two minority council members.
Among all mixed unions in 2006, 247, 600 couples were in unions involving a visible minority person and someone who was not a visible minority.
Among them are several thousand Utsuls in southern Hainan province, who speak an Austronesian language ( Tsat ) related to that of the Cham Muslim minority of Vietnam, and who are said to be descended from Chams who migrated to Hainan.
Among the questions on which Chinese nationalists have disagreed is what policies would lead to a strong China, what is the structure of the state and its goal, what the relationship should be between China and foreign powers, and what should be the relationships between the majority Han Chinese, minority groups, and overseas Chinese.
Among the variants of the Jesus myth theory, the notion that Jesus never existed has little scholarly support, and although some modern scholars adhere to it, they remain a distinct minority ; virtually all scholars involved with historical Jesus research believe that his existence can be established.
Among the earliest modern Hebrew writers was a small minority of writers who were born in the Land of Israel.
Among language minorities in the United States – for example, groups such as Mexicans, Koreans, Italians, Chinese, or deaf users of sign language – the minority language group itself has a “ we ” or “ insider ” view of their cultural group as well as a “ they ” or “ outsider ” view of those who do not share the values of the group.
Among prominent subscribers to the project were members of the prominent internationalized Jewish minority in Egypt.
Among the 80, 000 inhabitants, for example, of Hulme, the poorest and most neglected district of the city, is to be found only a tiny minority of persons of much education and refinement, these being with rare exceptions doctors, or ministers of the various religious denominations, and their wives "
Among members of the white minority community, theatre has a large following, with numerous theatrical companies performing in Zimbabwe's urban areas.
Among the Shi ' a minority, some have their origins in different parts of South Asia, while others are adherents of the Shia Ismaili sect from East Africa.
Among other things who augmented the discord between father and son, Frederick lifted several regulations on Henry during his minority years who reduce his authority, and on the other side, the action of Count Egeno V of Freiburg, a staunch enemy of the Emperor, who became in the most important of Henry's advisers.
Among Filipino politicians, she is among the minority not from politically connected families.
Among the most significant of the changes were new quotas mandating that certain percentages of delegates be women or members of minority groups.
Among the minority peoples of Burma, including Chins, Karens and Kachins, there was a mixture of anti-Bamar, anti-Japanese and pro-British sentiments.
Among ethnic minority populations, Puerto Ricans the rate of asthma is 125 percent higher than non-Hispanic white people and 80 percent higher than non-Hispanic black people.

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