The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

From necessity, they are also inspired by the `` hard-sell '' attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste of his advertising.

'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.

Schools and community groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, and to organizations in member communities.

So as to not influence the funding of the archaeological excavations, Christie would always pay for her own board and lodging and her travel expenses, and supported excavations as an anonymous sponsor.

AEGON has replaced ABN AMRO as the new head sponsor for a period of at least seven years.

Atari was a sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympics and planned to push the 7800 aggressively in time for Christmas that year.

Many of the SIGs, like SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGCSE and SIGCOMM, sponsor regular conferences which have become famous as the dominant venue for presenting innovations in certain fields.

In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Cable & Wireless sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main sponsor, Digicel.

In 2011, Budweiser became the sponsor for Kevin Harvick.

Dealers that sponsor infomercials on shortwave radio are notorious for such sales pitches, most notably Discount Gold & Silver Trading on WWCR, which proclaims graded coins, in direct contradiction to their pricing history, as having appreciated more than non-graded coins, or as not likewise being " opinion coins.

The YMCA ( Young Men's Christian Association ) is also a popular sponsor for youth cheerleading leagues, as well as numerous other sports leagues.

Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.

They employ the majority of the academic staff, are responsible for teaching and sponsor the research schools and institutions.

In addition, Humble Oil was a major promoter and broadcast sponsor for college football in the Pacific-8 ( now Pac-12 ) and Southwestern conferences.

Enzo Ferrari wasn't initially interested in the idea of producing road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari ( literally " Ferrari Stable ", and usually used to mean " Team Ferrari ", it is correctly pronounced ) in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena.

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor prize suppliers, who in turn usually do so for the purposes of product placement.

Hezbollah has a military branch known as Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (" The Islamic Resistance ") and is the possible sponsor of a number of lesser-known militant groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself, including the Organization of the Oppressed, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, the Organization of Right Against Wrong, and Followers of the Prophet Muhammad.

Oyster cards ( the ticket-free system for London Underground ) are now given with wallets sponsored by IKEA who also sponsor the tube map.

Henry VIII's cousin once removed, Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, stood sponsor for Mary's confirmation, which was held immediately after the baptism.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

In this condemnation were included not only the Ecthesis ( the exposition of faith of the Patriarch Sergius for which the emperor Heraclius had stood sponsor ), but also the typus of Paul, the successor of Sergius, which had the support of the reigning Emperor ( Constans II ).

Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the liberalising Obscene Publications Act, responsible for establishing the " liable to deprave and corrupt " criterion as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and for specifying literary merit as a possible defence.

Nominations are received from the member states ' governments, who sponsor the nomination through the election process and are responsible for withdrawing their candidate as they see fit.

As a TGWU official, Brown was an attractive candidate to Labour constituencies seeking a candidate, as the TGWU would sponsor him and pay election expenses.

As the sponsor, she was one of the 31 who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 election.

The Citizens ' Debate Commission ( CDC ) is a nonpartisan American organization, formed in 2004, that was established to sponsor future general election presidential debates.

Immediately following the 2005 provincial election, Schmidt registered the party with the City of Vancouver and the District of Saanich to sponsor candidates in the November 2005 municipal elections.

He kept pressing the issue and, after Humphry Berkeley ( Conservative MP for Lancaster ) lost his seat in the 1966 general election, Abse became the main sponsor for the legalisation.

It had long been the wish of his father Urthog to have young Martok become an officer and so he enlisted the aid of officers he had earned the respect of and eventually was able to get one to sponsor his son to the Klingon academy.

Glass had been the House sponsor of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ( the Glass-Owen Act ) and considered himself “ the father of the Federal Reserve System .” The various versions of his Glass bill consistently sought to ( 1 ) expand branch banking and bring more banks and activities under Federal Reserve supervision and ( 2 ) separate ( or regulate the mix of ) commercial and investment banking.

First elected to the state senate in 1969-70 to a seat occupied by his father, Robert P. O ' Bannon from 1950 – 1970, he was the primary sponsor of legislation reintroducing the death penalty.

Anna is described by Bede as almost a saintly figure and the father of a most religious family, who brought about the conversion of Cenwalh of Wessex, and Æthelwold was the sponsor of Swithelm of Essex during his baptism.

The child is considered born past " first generation limitation " and the parents ( the father ) would have to sponsor the child to Canada to become a Permanent Resident, ( a lengthy process which may take from one to four years ) even though the child has four other siblings who are Canadian citizens by the same parents.

He has never been a father nor was he a heroin addict, but is now a recovering alcoholic with Killer Croc as his sponsor.

The secret sponsor of the tournament and owner of the Mishima Zaibatsu is finally revealed to be Jinpachi Mishima, the father of Heihachi, and who was missing for the past fifty years.

His father had been taken into favour by Tsar Nicholas I, owing to his fidelity on the occasion of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, and Grand Duke Alexander ( later Tsar Alexander II ) stood sponsor at the boy's baptism.

The sponsor was his father, Arietto Paletti, a rich Milanese businessman, who had made his fortune with a building company and importing Pioneer Hi-Fi equipment to Italy.

Brown, Sr., U. S. Congressman for Kentucky ; lawyer ; first sponsor of sales tax and civil rights legislation in the Kentucky House of Representatives ; and father of John Young Brown, Jr.

A call comes in while Craige is out checking equipment: a woman, Rose Ellington, wants to sponsor an expedition to discover the pyramid that her archeologist father never found.

* See Bell Telephone Company for Thomas Sanders ( U. S. businessman ), Alexander Graham Bell's first sponsor and partner in Cambridge / Boston, and the father of one of Bell's students

He also has a standing Sunday night dinner with his sponsor, Jim Faber, who eventually becomes a surrogate father figure.

Grissom began his racing career as a youth, working on cars with his father Wayne, who was a sponsor of short track drivers in their homestate of Alabama.