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He is an active campaigner on local community issues in Cornwall, notably as part of the Lowermoor Support Group for people affected by the Camelford water pollution incident.
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In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.
`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer.
All across the South there are signs that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant attitude toward it.
The Office of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is also active in the field of international trade, assisting Rhode Island firms in developing and enlarging markets abroad.
The Bureau is pursuing an active program to provide a temperature scale and thermometer calibration services in the range 1.5 to 20 Af.
It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.
The company is still broadening its line and is now active on four major fronts.
A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.
The detergent active is that substance which primarily acts to remove greasy soils.
and, indeed, there is no more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active, builder, antiredeposition agent, etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making up a given commercial organic active.
On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.
The finding that the concentration of one of these proteases is increased in thyroid glands from TSH-treated animals suggests that this protease may be active in vivo.
There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.
In general, the approach is more active than passive, more out-reaching than reflective.
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" Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell called for any damages paid out from the libel case to be donated to gay charities, claiming Williams ' legal actions had created the impression that it is " bad to be gay.
William Willett, a campaigner for daylight saving time, lived in nearby Chislehurst for most of his life, and is commemorated by a memorial sundial in the wood.
Currently an owner-occupier in North Great George's Street in Dublin, he is a member of the Irish Georgian Society and is an active campaigner for the preservation of Georgian buildings in the Republic of Ireland.
It is a meticulous recreation of a 40 metre long display which had originally been situated around peace campaigner Brian Haw's protest outside the Houses of Parliament against policies towards Iraq.
Mrs Fawcett was a local temperance campaigner and is buried in the cemetery just a minute's walk from the fountain.
She is a campaigner for Greyhound welfare.
The former chairwoman of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ), Janet Bloomfield ( née Hood ) is a peace and disarmament campaigner.
Her grandfather, Max Sonnenberg, was a member of the South African parliament, and she is a niece of civil rights / anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman.
Fortunately, he has an exact double: a patent-medicine salesman and vaudeville hoofer who is a charismatic campaigner but has no actual political qualifications.
Tariq Ali ( Punjabi, ), ( born 21 October 1943 ), is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator.
* Bishop Graham Charles Chadwick, anti-apartheid campaigner, served in curacy at All Saints Church and is buried in Oystermouth Cemetery.
Mrs Thomas is a campaigner for carers ' rights and a past member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee.
Peter Gary Tatchell ( born 25 January 1952 ) is an Australian-born British political campaigner best known for his work with LGBT social movements.
As a Parkinson's sufferer, MacDonald has been a long time campaigner for Assisted Dying, saying " As someone with a degenerative condition-Parkinson's-this debate is not a theory with me.
He is credited with popularising Mother Teresa and in his later years became a Catholic and morals campaigner.
The faqir of Ipi, an old campaigner among the tribes, is also intriguing.
Yell is reported to have been the consummate campaigner.
The National Organization for Marriage, another active campaigner against same-sex marriage, issued a statement saying “ Today ’ s attack is the clearest sign we ’ ve seen that labeling pro-marriage groups as ‘ hateful ’ must end ".
* Midge Ure ( 1953 – ) is a pop-singer, formerly performing with Slik and Ultravox and a leading campaigner against world hunger, including Band Aid and Live 8.
Her grandfathers were William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley and the cricketer Giles Baring ; Ward is also the great-granddaughter of William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, Governor-General of Australia 1908 – 11, and sister of environmental campaigner and former actress Tracy Louise Ward, Marchioness of Worcester.
At times, prime ministers ' spouses have used their public status to promote charitable causes ; Mila Mulroney was a spokesperson for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and other children's charities, Aline Chrétien was an active campaigner for literacy programs, and Laureen Harper is known for her support of animal welfare organizations such as the Ottawa Humane Society.
John McAllion ( born 13 February 1948, Glasgow, Scotland ) is a former Labour Party convener of Tayside Regional Council, Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ), and a campaigner for Oxfam in Scotland.
He is a sworn republican, an outspoken campaigner for the abolition of hunting, and was an opponent of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In July 2007, Lucas came in eighth place in the New Consumer Magazine Top 100 Ethical Heroes list, behind a number of celebrities including fashion designer Katharine Hamnett ( who came 1st ), Anita Roddick ( The Body Shop founder ), Al Gore ( former US Vice-President who is now a campaigner for action on climate change ) and Jonathon Porritt, a former Green Party politician.
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I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
`` All I have to do to set the record is to go on down.
`` Jed's homestead is on the south bank ''.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.
The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
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