__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

* 2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

Rockstar Games, the controversial game publisher, released the snuff-themed Manhunt in 2003.

It did not take over responsibility for the London Underground until 2003, after the controversial Public-private partnership ( PPP ) contract for maintenance had been agreed.

In 2003 an operating company included over 80 investors, including some of Mayor Daley's friends and neighbors won, under controversial circumstances, a lucrative contract to operate Park Grill, the only restaurant in Millenium Park.

In response to criticisms of the Institute stating that the amendment was a federal education policy requiring inclusion of alternatives to evolution be taught, which it was not, in 2003 intelligent design's three most prominent legislators, John Boehner, Judd Gregg and Santorum provided a letter to the Discovery Institute giving it the go ahead to invoke the amendment as evidence of " Congress's rejection of the idea that students only need to learn about the dominant scientific view of controversial topics ".

There are times in which Cherry tends to be controversial ; for example, in 2003, Cherry stated that the majority of players wearing facial protection in the NHL are French-Canadians and Europeans ( though a study done by a lawyer confirmed Cherry's assertion ).

In a controversial move following the 2003 sexual assault scandal, the words " Bring me men ..." were taken down and replaced with the Academy's ( later adopted as the Air Force's ) core values: " Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.

A series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford ( removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction ), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations.

They were founder members of the FA Premier League in 1992 and survived at that level until 2000, but relocated to Milton Keynes, some 70 miles away in Buckinghamshire, in a controversial move in 2003, being rebranded as Milton Keynes Dons in 2004.

In 2003 and 2004, Riverton Park United Methodist Church located in northeast Cascade View, Tukwila and The Church by the Side of the Road located in south Cascade View hosted controversial homeless camp Tent City.

At the end of 2003, Royal Brunei entered a controversial agreement with Royal Tongan Airlines of Tonga.

In January 2003, Clooney made a controversial joke about the fact that Charlton Heston was suffering from Alzheimer's, and Clooney initially refused to apologize.

In 2003, the Navy, in a controversial move that was protested by many Chamorro people, began a program of extermination to control the carabao population of Naval Magazine.

In 2003, the San Diego Jewish Journal described Lerner as " the most controversial Jew in America ," writing that " He is relentlessly critical of Israel.

Less controversial, however, was the SASR's involvement in the boarding of the North Korean freighter MV Pong Su in 2003.

In March 2003, a controversial Monument of Halabja Martyrs was built on the outskirts of the still largely ruined city.

A plan to build a Tesco Extra store on the Cloffocks proved controversial with much opposition from local people ; a planning application was placed in 2006 by Tesco, after it acquired the Cloffocks site for £ 18 million ; Tesco had been competing with Asda to acquire the site since 2003.

This was not so, however, during the 2003 election, which was the most controversial in recent memory ( see also above ).

Castroneves repeated his Indianapolis 500 win in 2002 despite controversial circumstances involving a late race caution and a pass made by Tracy, and his teammate de Ferran won in 2003.

A recent prominent example of quorum-busting occurred during the 2003 Texas redistricting, in which the majority Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives sought to carry out a controversial mid-decade congressional redistricting bill which would have favored Republicans by displacing five Democratic U. S. Representatives from Texas ( the Texas Five ) from their districts.

She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in The Echo of Thunder ( 1998 ), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in Dash and Lilly ( 1999 ), her frigid society matron in A Cooler Climate ( 1999 ) and her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic The Reagans ( 2003 ).

In autumn 2003, The Late Late Show had a competitor in the Friday evening time slot, with the arrival of competing television chat programme, The Dunphy Show, hosted by controversial broadcaster Eamon Dunphy on RTÉ's main rival TV3.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

More recently, following the passage of a constitutional amendment allowing the stationing of the PNGDF on foreign soil, 80 personnel joined the Australia-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ) in July 2003.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

As of December 1, 2007, all gaming machines with support for $ 100 notes were banned due to an amendment to the gaming laws ; all gaming machines made since 2003 comply with this rule.

A Media Operators Bill and constitutional amendment, intended to restrict media freedom in Tonga, was hotly debated in 2003.

There were additional ratifications and rescissions ; by 2003, the amendment had been ratified by all of the 37 states that were in the Union in 1868:

On 15 October 2003, the Intelligence Services Amendment Bill 2003 was introduced into Parliament by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, as an amendment to the original Intelligence Services Act 2001 ( ISA ).

In 2003, the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress approved an amendment law for strengthening the role of PBC in the making and implementation of monetary policy for safeguarding the overall financial stability and provision of financial services.

Peat is discouraged as a soil amendment by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, and has been since 2003.

In 2003, the White House declined to take a stand on the amendment, although Press Secretary Ari Fleischer relayed that President George W. Bush believed that marriage was between a man and a woman.

" We reaffirm the importance we attach to the General Council Decision of 30 August 2003 on the Implementation of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, and to an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement replacing its provisions.

In 2003, a group of Arias supporters presented an unconstitutionality challenge against the 1969 constitutional amendment forbidding re-election, and this time the ruling in April 2003 struck down the prohibition against non-consecutive re-election This decision was denuncied as a " state blow " or " coup d ' état " by ex-president Luis Alberto Monge.

Prior to a 2002 amendment to the Foreign Service Act ( Section 503 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended by the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 ), United States government employees were required to resign from government service for their period of assignment to AIT.

During his last electoral term, Virolainen supported constitutional amendment proposals that reduced the President's power ( Zetterberg et al., eds., 2003 ; Virolainen 1991 ).

" A 2003 amendment regulates activity among the privately owned areas " in between hills ".

In 2003 he submitted an amendment to reduce the tax cut to $ 350 billion.