On the Middle East conflict, Høybråten said that his view was the same as that of Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Dagfinn Høybråten ( born 2 December 1957 ), is a Norwegian politician and the former leader of the Christian Democratic Party.

Høybråten became active in politics at an early age, and became chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party in 1979.

When he became party leader, Christian conservatives like Finn Jarle Sæle, Kåre Kristiansen and Gunnar Prestegård praised Høybråten for his conservative views.

Dagfinn Høybråten, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party ( KrF ) has contributed to the establishment of this impression.

Dagbladet wrote that Høybråten opposes abortion, even in cases of rape.

After Høybråten announced that he would not seek reelection as party leader of KrF, Hareide quickly emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Høybråten, after the two other apparent candidates, Dagrun Eriksen and Hans Olav Syversen, announced they would not run.

Høybråten was critical of employers advertising positions for non-smokers, since his he felt the issue ought to be fighting tobacco and its adverse health effects, rather than discriminating against people who smoke.

Høybråten received a cand. polit.

Following a 2004 Government reshuffle, Høybråten was transferred to lead the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Dagfinn Høybråten speaking in the Parliament of Norway in 2009.

As Minister of Health, Høybråten was noted for his campaign against tobacco smoking at all public indoor places.

Høybråten has noted his efforts in this field as something he is particularly proud of.

Responding to the articles, Høybråten distanced himself from claims that he was a fundamentalist.

Failing by a margin of 180 votes to win a seat in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1989, Høybråten did not hold a seat in the Parliament of Norway until elected in 2005.

Ahead of the 2005 election, Høybråten was nominated from Rogaland instead of his home county of Akershus.

In 2007 Høybråten serves as the president of the Nordic Council.

On October 2, 2010 Høybråten announced that he would not run for reelection as party leader at the 2011 party conference.

After Dagfinn Høybråten stepped down as party leader, Hareide was unanimously elected to take his place at the 2011 party convention.

Party leader Dagfinn Høybråten hails from Akershus, but he runs on the Rogaland ticket to secure a safe seat.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

The Holy Father would die soon, she said to Carla, so she could translate for Sam, although he had a brilliant doctor, a man who did not need the assistance of those doctors offered by the great rulers of the world.

Less can be said about the Asterales themselves with certainty, although since several families in Asterales contain trees, the ancestral member is most likely to have been a tree or shrub.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.

Whorf described a workplace in which full gasoline drums were stored in one room and empty ones in another ; he said that because of flammable vapor the " empty " drums were more dangerous than those that were full, although workers handled them less carefully to the point that they smoked in the room with " empty " drums, but not in the room with full ones.

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

Many names meant something along the lines of " wild man " or " hairy man " although other names described common actions it was said to perform ( e. g. eating clams ).

As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.

Jefferson was reputedly unhappy with his royalties ( although Williams said that Jefferson had a bank account containing as much as $ 1500 ).

Wegener said that of all those theories, Taylor's, although not fully developed, had the most similarities to his own.

Ware said that Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Spain and the US had no conservative parties, although they had either Christian Democrats or liberals as major right-wing parties.

She is said to have committed suicide, although Suetonius hints that Caligula actually poisoned her.

Cézanne, although only nine years younger than Pissarro, said that “ he was a father for me.

The historicity of this story is questioned by most scholars, although John Robert Moore later said that " no man in England but Defoe ever stood in the pillory and later rose to eminence among his fellow men ".

Farinelli was said to have been impressed, although Alberti was an amateur.

As ecosystems are defined by the network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment, they can come in any size but usually encompass specific, limited spaces ( although it is sometimes said that the entire planet is an ecosystem ).

We are dealing with this: Would a stable mind depart from the opinion handed down by so many men famous for holiness and miracles, depart from the decisions of the Church, and commit our souls to the faith of someone like you who has sprung up just now with a few followers, although the leading men of your flock do not agree either with you or among themselves – indeed though you do not even agree with yourself, since in this same Assertion you say one thing in the beginning and something else later on, recanting what you said before.

He never explained its meaning, leading to many different interpretations being presented, although it has been claimed that shortly before his death he said it stands for Alles Erdreich ist Österreich untertan ( English: All the world is subject to Austria.

He visited the Naples conservatory, and, although less than four years senior to Mercadante, he said to the Director Niccolò Zingarelli, " My compliments Maestro – your young pupil Mercadante begins where we finish.

Altogether, Stephenson is said to have produced 16 locomotives at Killingworth, although it has never proved possible to produce a convincing list of all 16.