Oliva Jr. ( b. 1936 ), Victor ( 1938 – 2007 ), and Claude ( b. 1946 ).

On 26 April 2004, the Standing Committee of National People's Congress denied the possibility of universal suffrage in 2007 ( for the Chief Executive ) and 2008 ( for LegCo ).

On May 7, 2007, pardon was denied ; regular parole was later granted on November 24, 2008.

In December 2007, the Libyan state oil company Tamoil denied media reports about involvement in oil exploration in Western Sahara.

In 2007, after being denied a request to hold a parade, a small group of LGBT people tried to hold a small gathering.

The Bureau's role was denied for decades but was finally proven in 2007.

In the local elections of 2007, many local councillors from the major parties were displaced by independent candidates whose main issue as a group is the construction of a road bypass which they believe is being deliberately denied by the Lincoln-centric members of the Lincolnshire County Council.

Adobe denied these rumors in 2001 ,< ref > later releasing Framemaker 8 at the end of July 2007, Framemaker 9 in 2009, and Framemaker 10 in 2011.

" In September 2007, Mila Dravnel, the woman who sold the photographs, recanted her allegations against De La Hoya and denied the authenticity of the photographs.

Joy's request to change the religion listed on her MyKad was denied by Malaysia's Supreme Court in 2007.

A 2007 court defeat brought the issue back into the public eye, as a village owned rental parcel was denied eminent domain.

In October 2007 the US District Court ordered the parties first to take their challenge to the Omaha Tribal Courts, as part of the " tribal exhaustion doctrine " established by federal precedent, and denied the plaintiffs ' request for dismissal.

In subsequent years other women have entered the contest ; though Kelley Cain, Krystal Thomas, and Maya Moore were denied entry into the same contest in 2007.

He has denied the suspicion, but Japan Boxing Commission banished him on 27 July 2007.

Rumours have circulated since 2007 that the show would return for a full length series or special but nothing has ever been confirmed or denied.

In 2007, a Northern Ireland sex shop was denied a license by the Belfast City Council.

The District Court denied the motion, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, where oral arguments were heard on April 24, 2007.

Huang had reportedly asked to resign by March 2007, but the request was denied ; but thereafter his normally powerful position became purely ceremonial.

On 4 May 2007, Hook announced on Xfm that he and New Order singer / guitarist Bernard Sumner were no longer working together, effectively spelling the end for the band ; the band later denied disbanding.

An article in the Daily Telegraph stated that a woman was denied entry into England at some time prior to 2007 for giving her reason for visiting as wanting to go to Gateshead.

According to commentators at AbsoluteRadio. co. uk, the courts denied Ms Ambrose's claim as without merit and she was awarded only $ 16, 000. 00 per the Court of Appeal of Ticino 19 December 2007 ( 11. 2004. 49 ) in compensation with the remainder of the estate divided amongst Palmer's five children and UNICEF, to which Palmer donated a large charitable contribution.

In January 2007, Jillette took the " Blasphemy Challenge " offered by the Rational Response Squad and publicly denied the existence of a holy spirit.

The defendants attempted to seek shelter under California's anti-SLAPP statutes but in early 2007 the appeals court denied them SLAPP protection.

In September 2007 Sturrock was linked with the vacant managerial position at Championship side Leicester City, but this was denied by Swindon.

Upon his return from Japan, Fletcher denied that the " mistakes " by his administration were illegal and called the investigation by Stumbo " the beginning of the 2007 governor's race ", an allusion to Stumbo's potential candidacy in 2007.

Azeri GDP grew 41. 7 % in the first quarter of 2007, possibly the highest of any nation worldwide.

The per capita GDP in 2007 was by far the highest of any province in Canada at C $ 74, 825 ( approx.

* The world income per head has increased by more over period 2002 – 2007 than during any other period on the record.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

The Food and Drug Administration regulations in are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0. 5 milliroentgens per hour ( mR / h ) ( 0. 13 µC /( kg · h ) or 36 pA / kg ) at a distance of from any external surface ; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.

They won their last 14 of 15 games, including 11 in a row, the most of any team in the 2007 season and an all-time franchise record.

When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

In a December 5, 2007 article on Mutato Muzika, LA Weekly reported that " After touring sporadically over the past decade but not releasing any new material, Devo are spending December at Mutato trying to create an album ’ s worth of new material and contemplating a method of dispersal in the post-record-company world.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

The early Late Miocene Nakalipithecus nakayamai, described in 2007, and perhaps also its contemporary Ouranopithecus, are basal members of this clade, not assignable to any of the three extant tribes.

To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.

In April 2007, the Malaysian Foreign Ministry parliamentary secretary Ahmad Shabery Cheek said Malaysia and other Asean members had decided not to defend Burma if the country was raised for discussion at any international conference.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2005 ), The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2007 ), and The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English ( 2008 ) give a secondary meaning as " any blind, unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy.

( 2007 ) it means the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use.

In 2007 electricity production rose to 70 TWh, and exports reached 64 TWh which put Paraguay in second place worldwide as an exporter of electrical power ( And in the first place as a net exporter since France, the Number one exporter in the World with 67 TWh, also imports 10 TWh, while Paraguay does not import any ).

This transfer of power may occur for any reason the president considers appropriate ; in 2002 and again in 2007, President George W. Bush briefly transferred presidential authority to Vice President Dick Cheney.

In his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 7 July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI stated that the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal was never juridically abrogated and that it may be freely used by any priest of the Latin Rite when celebrating Mass without the people.

A 2007 poll commissioned by the Center Against Racism ( 2008 ) found a worsening of Jewish citizens ' perceptions of their Arab counterparts: For instance, 75 % of Israeli Jews would not agree to live in a building with Arab residents, 60 % would not accept any Arab visitors at their homes, 40 % believed that Arabs should be stripped of their right to vote, and 59 % believe that the culture of Arabs is primitive.

Since 2007, there has not been any significant mining by the Russian state-owned Arktikugol in Barentsburg.

On October 16, 2007, Raimi stated that: " I don't have any news on ' The Shadow ' at this time, except that the company that I have with Josh Donen, my producing partner, we've got the rights to ' The Shadow.

In late August 2007, Sony released an email to customers of its Online Music Store ( Connect ) stating that Sony would shut down the service and begin to phase out the ATRAC codec on any future version of the Walkman portable device.

An HCE in 2008 is defined as an employee with compensation of greater than $ 100, 000 in 2007 or an employee that owned more than 5 % of the business at any time during the year or the preceding year.

In 2007, Taco Bell offered the " Steal a Base, Steal a Taco " promotion — if any player from either team stole a base in the 2007 World Series the company would give away free tacos to everyone in the United States in a campaign similar to the Mir promotion, albeit with a much higher likelihood of being realized.