This goal was rapidly met with great success, as the nation joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004, and held the Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2009.

Until the 216th assembly met in Richmond, Virginia in 2004, the General Assembly met once a year ; since 2004, the General Assembly has met biennially in even-numbered years.

In June 2004, the General Assembly met in Richmond, Virginia and adopted by a vote of 431-62 a resolution that called on the church's committee on Mission Responsibility through Investment ( MRTI ) " to initiate a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.

This started in the early 90s ' and was only met with a similar motivated competitor in 2004 called REM FM.

Initially they met annually, but according to a UN press release from their session in 2004:

The WTO working party on Yemen met in 2004 and twice thereafter to discuss Yemen's accession ; negotiations are expected to take several years.

In an article in the December 2004 edition of the magazine Royalty Digest: A Journal of Record Peter de Malama wrote that his cousin, Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama, an officer in the Imperial Russian Cavalry, met Tatiana when he was wounded in 1914 and a romance later developed between Tatiana and the young man when he was appointed an equerry to the court of the Tsar at Tsarskoye Selo.

In 2004, Israeli officials met with Kurdish political leaders.

Oldsmobile met the same fate in 2004 after being more slowly phased out over four years.

Later in the case of In re O ' Donnell-Lamont ( 2004 ), the court affirmed an Oregon statute requiring a presumption the parent acts in the child's best interests to be met prior to applying the best interests of the child standard, placing both parties on equal footing.

Although referendums were held in 2004 to give citizens the opportunity to overturn the amalgamation, in the end none of the former municipalities met the threshold vote conditions for de-merger, and the status quo prevailed.

At the 2004 annual general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation, which is the largest member of the governing coalition, deputy chair Badruddin Amiruldin cautioned against questioning the Bumiputras ' special rights, which met with approval from the delegates: " Let no one from the other races ever question the rights of Malays on this land.

The Progressive Conservative caucus last officially met in early 2004.

After the checking stage, a regular planned management review is conducted to ensure that the objectives of the EMS are being met, the extent to which they are being met, that communications are being appropriately managed and to evaluate changing circumstances, such as legal requirements, in order to make recommendations for further improvement of the system ( Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand 2004 ).

The Scottish Parliament met in the Assembly Hall between 1999 and 2004, with a public access from Mylne's Court ( now obliterated )..

In his book, Cary Grant: Grant's Secret Sixth Marriage ( 2004 ), Marc Eliot claims Grant had a sexual relationship with Scott after they met on the set of Hot Saturday ( 1932 ).

On 24 December 2004, Constantine and Anne-Marie and members of the former royal family visited the Presidential Mansion ( the former Royal Palace ) in Athens where Constantine met President Costis Stephanopoulos, who gave them a tour of the palace.

The nine cities that submitted bids before that date also met the 15 January 2004 deadline for submission of the first phase questionnaire.

In 2004 Stephen Harper privately met with Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe and New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton in a Montreal hotel.

* 1912 – Julia Child, American chef and author ( d. 2004 )

* 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster ( d. 2004 )

* 1908 – M. M. Kaye, Indian-English author ( d. 2004 )

* 1925 – Thea Astley, Australian author ( d. 2004 )

* 1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author ( d. 2004 )

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

The term was used by author John Perkins in his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, where he described corporatocracy as a collective composed of corporations, banks, and governments.

In 2004, author Joe Tomlinson classified extreme sports into those that take place in air, land, and water,

In 2004 Scott Kellum published a detailed analysis of the literally unity of the entire Farewell Discourse and stated that it shows that it was written by a single author, and that its structure and placement within the Gospel of John is consistent with the rest of that gospel.

* 2004 – Alexandra Ripley, American author ( b. 1934 )

* 1928 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author ( d. 2004 )

* John Dinges John Dinges was a correspondent for the " Washington Post " in South America from 1975 to 1983, author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents ( The New Press 2004 ) and with Saul Landau Assassination on Embassy Row ( Pantheon 1980 ), ( Asesinato en Washington, Lasser 1980, Planeta 1990 )

* 1917 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian soldier, author, and politician ( d. 2004 )

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

** Iris Chang, American author ( d. 2004 )

* January 16 – Susan Sontag, American author ( d. 2004 )

Susan Carroll, the author of Women Voters and the Gender Gap, states that the increase of women influence on political behaviors is due to four main categories: women outnumber men among voters ; significant efforts are underway to increase registration and turnout among women ; a gender gap is evident in the 2004 election as it has been in every presidential election since 1980 ; and women constitute a disproportionately large share of the undecided voters who will make their decision late in the campaign.

He is the author of a number of books about intelligent design, including The Design Inference ( 1998 ), Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology ( 1999 ), The Design Revolution ( 2004 ), The End of Christianity ( 2009 ), and Intelligent Design Uncensored ( 2010 ).

* The Best American Science and Nature Writing ( editor and introduction author, 2004 ) ISBN 978-0-618-24698-4

According to an article by Geraldine Bedell, published in The Observer on Sunday 25 July 2004, " Pauline Réage, the author, was a pseudonym, and many people thought that the book could only have been written by a man.

Dragon's Lair ( 2004 ) by the same author features the young Llywelyn before he gained power in Gwynedd.

In Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race ( 2004 ), author Maureen Mahon states: " In the 1980s, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Prince were among the African American artists who crossed over ...

* 2004 Barney's Version was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2004, championed by author Zsuzsi Gartner.

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, ( July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004 ) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.