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But you know Bang-Jensen launched an active campaign against us in the press.
He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
It was only after the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire in 1994 that the Continuity IRA became active, announcing its intention to continue the campaign against British rule.
In September 2005, as part of its campaign to demonstrate that the military allowed open homosexuals to serve when its manpower requirements were greatest, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military ( now the Palm Center ), a reported that army regulations allowed the active duty deployment of Army Reservists and National Guard troops who claim to be or who are accused of being gay.
The Munch Museum currently serves at Munch's official Estate, and has been active in responding to copyright infringements, as well as clearing copyright for the work, such as the appearance of Munch's The Scream in a 2006 M & M's advertisement campaign.
Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.
Starting in 1984, the government launched a scorched-earth campaign to drive a wedge between the villagers and the guerrillas in the remote areas of two provinces of Kurdistan in which Kurdish guerrillas were active.
To this wage, a legionary on active campaign would hope to add the booty of war, from the bodies of their enemies and as plunder from enemy settlements.
Though Themistocles was no doubt politically and militarily active for the rest of the campaign, no mention of his activities in 479 BC is made in the ancient sources.
He resettled to the Kiryat Arba settlement in the West Bank, and was politically active for years – he saw Rabbi Meir Kahane as a hero, and had been Kahane's campaign manager when he ran for the Israeli parliament through Kahane's Kach party.
As was common practice at the time, Grant remained home in Galena during the campaign, and left most of the active campaigning and speaking on his behalf to his campaign manager William E. Chandler and others.
The campaign owed a great deal to Florence Harding, who played perhaps a more active role than any previous candidate's wife had in a presidential race.
Although Harding was committed to putting the " best minds " on his cabinet, he often rewarded those persons who were active and contributed to his campaign by appointing them to high federal department positions.
The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.
During the ensuing campaign, King's tuberculosis, which he believed he had contracted while in Paris, France, denied him the active behind-the-scenes role that he might otherwise have played, although he worked hard to assure his region's voters that New Hampshire's Pierce was a " northern man with southern principles.
In addition to the priority campaign areas Friends of the Earth International has a number of other campaign areas which are active internationally.
In June the PCI gave its approval, and ultimately active support, to a campaign against President Giovanni Leone, accused of being involved in the Lockheed bribery scandal.
Declaring that Florence would be the New Jerusalem, the center of world Christianity and " richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever ", he instituted a puritanical campaign, enlisting the active help of Florentine youth.
The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.
* He protested against the death penalty, dedicating his seminar in his last years to the production of a non-utilitarian argument for its abolition, and was active in the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Following Jiang Zemin's 1999 ban of Falun Gong, then-Minister of Education Chen Zhili launched an active campaign to promote the Party's line on Falun Gong within all levels of academic institutions, including graduate schools, universities and colleges, middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens.
He was also active in the " Make Poverty History " campaign during early 2005, in the lead-up to the G8 summit in Scotland, and is the patron for UK-based charity Street Child Africa.
During the 1980s, Denver was critical of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Administration, but he remained active in his campaign against hunger, for which Reagan awarded Denver the Presidential World Without Hunger Award in 1985.

active and sought
Slovenia has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace ( PfP ) and has sought to demonstrate its preparedness to take on the responsibilities and burdens of membership in the Alliance.
The coalition was committed to free trade ( as opposed to the high tariffs the Conservatives sought ), free collective bargaining for trades unions ( which Conservatives opposed ), an active social policy that was forging the welfare state, and constitutional reform to reduce the power of the House of Lords.
The Moral Majority sought to mobilize conservative Americans to become politically active on issues they thought were important.
Kolbe " who in his active days had never sought compensation " after the war retired in Switzerland on a modest CIA pension.
For example, Tsuji avoided active engagement in politics and sought after a form of ataraxia, which he was apparently able to experience through vagabond wandering and Egoism.
The Akali Dal, a Sikh-dominated political party active mainly in Punjab, sought to create a Punjabi Suba (" Punjabi Province ").
He became active in local politics and advocated against blue laws promulgated by Calvinists who sought to restrict gambling and travel.
In his works, he sought to synthesize the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world.
Briggs was active in many areas, and his advice in astronomy, surveying, navigation, and other activities like mining was frequently sought.
He sought a guerilla war and active reprisals against the rebels but was frustrated by British Commander-in-Chief General Clinton.
Hyoscyamine was one of the active principles in many of the " flying ointments " used to obtain flying sensations sought by users of these compounds.
The group sought to persuade the SNP to take an active left-wing stance, arguing that it would win more support, and were highly critical of the established SNP leaders.
The association also sought to increase the resources available to the scientific community through active advocacy of science.
Remaining Galleanists either sought to avoid arrest by becoming inactive or going underground, or remained active.
The concept sought to strengthen and rebuild public confidence in the reserve forces while saving money by reducing the size of the active duty force.
In practical terms, the total force policy sought to insure that all policymaking, planning, programming, and budgetary activities within the Defense Department considered active and reserve forces concurrently and determined the most efficient mix of those forces in terms of costs versus contributions to national security.
Mark Fettes, in Steps Towards an Ecology of Language ( 1996 ), sought " a theory of language ecology which can integrate naturalist and critical traditions "; and in An Ecological Approach to Language Renewal ( 1997 ), sought to approach a transformative ecology via a more active, perhaps designed, set of tools in language.
Walker's Appeal sought to undermine racist ideology, encourage black self-help through education and religion, exhort readers to take an active role in fighting their oppression, and press white Americans to uphold the self-evident truth that all men are created equal.
However, by the end of the first browser war, the Internet suite market dwindled to one or two competitors every few years ; in reaction, alternative routes of profit or funding were sought ( Opera Software, for example, moved away from offering the Opera Internet suite with embedded advertisements to a completely ad-free product ), and Mozilla ( spun out of Netscape ) began to separate the Mozilla Application Suite into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but development of suite continued with Seamonkey internet suite and after several years it is very active and under Mozilla umbrella.
When Learn Television sought to use new multimedia technologies to create a more active learning experience, the company teamed up with Follett Software Company and developed " That's a Fact, Jack!
He was an active participant in the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, an organized faction which sought to transform the SPA into a revolutionary socialist organization.
The Communist Party has sought to play an active role in the US labor movement since its origins as part of its effort to build a mass movement of American workers to bring about their own liberation through socialist revolution.
In 50 BCE he was elected consul for the following year alongside Claudius Marcellus, as opponents to Caesar < ref > Caesar, < i > B. G .</ i > 8. 50, and was an active and vocal participant in the increasingly hysterical scenes < ref > Meier p. 341-346 ; Plutarch, < i > Pomp .</ i > § 59 ; Caesar, < i > B. C .</ i > i. 1-5 in the senate in late 50 and January 49 as Caesar sought to secure a safe consulship whilst a reactionary group of senators sought to have him stripped of command.

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