His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

At a regional conference in July 2009, officials expressed increased concerns that water levels are dropping.

In December 2009, Namibia's Foreign Minister, Marko Hausiku met with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin and noted the economic, science, technical and cultural agreements in place between the two countries and expressed a desire to improve the trade relations.

Spanish news outlets expressed outrage over the Sovereign Bay project in January 2009, particularly over the fact that infill material to create the quays and breakwater was reportedly coming from Spanish quarries in Andalucia.

A number of international organizations have expressed concern with Guatemala's current economic status in 2009.

2009 compared transcriptional profiles using short-oligonucleotide microarrays ( Affymetrix Porcine GeneChip ) to survey differentially expressed genes between parthenotes ( 2 maternal genomes ) and control fetuses ( 1 maternal, 1 paternal genome ) An intriguing study surveying the transcriptome of murine brain tissues revealed over 1300 imprinted gene loci ( approximately 10-fold more than previously reported ) by Illumina RNA-sequencing ( RNA-Seq ) technology from F1 hybrids resulting from reciprocal crosses.

While being interviewed for a February 2009 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Kurzweil expressed a desire to construct a genetic copy of his late father, Fredric Kurzweil, from DNA within his grave site.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has expressed admiration for the film and has cited it as an influence on his 2009 war epic, Inglourious Basterds.

" Washington Post reporter Suzanne McGee called for Wall Street to make a sort of public apology to the nation, and expressed dismay that people such as Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein hadn't expressed contrition despite being sued by the SEC in 2009.

In Portugal's September 2009 parliamentary election, the Left Bloc won 558. 062 votes, which translated into 9, 82 % of the expressed votes and the election of 16 ( out of 230 ) deputies to the national parliament.

LCC had student protests and sit-ins in November 2009, as students expressed anger over proposed course closures and staff redundancies.

In 2009 the college was inspected by the Bishops ' Inspection: it was commended in some departments but the inspectors expressed “ No confidence ” in practical and pastoral theology.

Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, " At Last ", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama.

In October 2009, Gleeson expressed fear that, should the Irish Film Board be abolished as planned by the Irish State, the production may fall through, but in 2011 confirmed that he had secured funding.

According to the indictment, Furrow expressed no regrets for any of his crimes ; however, in an August 2009 letter sent to the Los Angeles Daily News, he expressed remorse for the shootings and claims to have renounced his neo-Nazi views, stating " a life based on hate is no life at all ".

Tensions between the society and the Holy See reached their height in 1988, when Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops against the orders of Pope John Paul II, resulting in a declaration of excommunication against the bishops who consecrated or were consecrated, an excommunication remitted for those still alive in January 2009 with a hope expressed that all members of the society would quickly return to full communion.

In October 2009, however, Gleeson expressed fear that, should the Irish Film Board be abolished as planned by the Irish State, the production might fall through.

In September 2009, the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, expressed a similar view, saying it would lead to more lending for business and households.

Vasiliy Aleksanyan, former vice-chairman of the company, who is suffering from Aids, was released on bail in January 2009 after being held in inhuman conditions condemned by the European Court of Human Rights. 3 Lastly, Svetlana Bakhmina, deputy head of Yukos's legal department, who was sentenced in 2005 to six and a half years ' imprisonment for tax fraud, saw her application for early release turned down in October 2008, even though she had served half of her sentence, had expressed " remorse " and was seven months pregnant.

In September 2009, Steve McFadden ( Phil ) and Danniella Westbrook ( Sam ), Kemp's onscreen siblings, also expressed their desire to have him back on the show.

In a 2009 audio commentary for the Blu-ray edition of the film, Parker and Stone expressed shock at how little the character was used, and agreed that any South Park movie made today would demand he play a role in the plot.

On Wednesday 20 May 2009, supporters of the resolution instead agreed to accept language urging Democrats to " stop pushing our country towards socialism and government control ", thus ending a fight within the ranks of the Republican Party that reflected the divide between those who want a more centrist message and those seeking a more aggressive, conservative voice, such as the one expressed by the Tea Party movement.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

In September 2009 criticism over the seven-figure salaries earned by various coaches at Arizona's public universities ( including ASU ) prompted the Arizona Board of Regents to re-evaluate the salary and benefit policy for athletic staff.

In 2009, " Don't Dream It's Over " was ranked number fifty on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, voted by the Australian public.

On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing — and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with " Space Oddity "— EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.

On 22 January 2009, Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, announced that the company would be accepting edits and additions to the online Britannica website from the public.

* Roadsworth: Crossing the Line ( 2009 ) is a Canadian documentary about Montréal artist Peter Gibson and his controversial stencil art on public roads.

In 2009, he underwent heart surgery, details of which were never made public, but he was known to have developed pneumonia postoperatively.

In 2009, Hong Kong raised 22 percent of worldwide initial public offering ( IPO ) capital, becoming the largest centre of IPOs in the world.

In 2009, five companies operate franchised public bus services.

As of 2009 the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong reports that there are 584, 000 licensed vehicles in Hong Kong and about 2, 050 kilometres of public roads.

* Article 6 of Act No. 76 of 2009 regulating publicity and advertising in municipal areas states: ( a ) The following shall be deemed an infringement of this regulation: ( i ) The inclusion in publicity or advertisements of material that offends national or religious sentiment or public morals or that is prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.

* 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

For instance, Dave Cole is a contemporary sculpture artist who practiced knitting as graffiti for a large-scale public art installation in Melbourne, Australia for the Big West Arts Festival in 2009.

As discussed by Reinhart and Rogoff ( 2009 ), excessive debt, public and private, internal and external, has repeatedly led to financial crises in almost all countries throughout the last two centuries.

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

In August 2009 Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz visited Tripoli and issued a public apology to Libya for the arrest of Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

* 2009 – William Refshauge, Australian soldier and public health administrator ( b. 1913 )

After having lost $ 4. 3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company was divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011.

Hart has been married since 1990 to lawyer and environmental activist Caryl Hart, who obtained her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2009 on the topic of climate change and public lands.

On 16 June 2009, the Pave the Way Foundation announced that it would release of 2, 300 pages of documents in Avellino, Italy, dating from 1940 to 1945, which the organization claims show that Pius XII " worked diligently to save Jews from Nazi tyranny "; the organization's founder, Krupp has accused historians of harboring " private agendas " and having " let down " the public.

There were approximately 53, 500 public houses in 2009 in the United Kingdom.