Overview: Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1984, Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2010.

Telus is active in Canadian professional golf as title sponsor of the Telus Open and the Telus Skins Game.

They became politically active in San Francisco's first gay political organization, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, which influenced Dianne Feinstein to sponsor a citywide bill to outlaw employment discrimination for gays and lesbians.

Its mission statement of 2000 committed the Fraunhofer Society to being a market and customer-oriented, nationally and internationally active sponsor organization for institutes of the applied research.

He was the main sponsor of the bill that created the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was active as an advocate for mass transportation initiatives and domestic legislation facilitating and conforming to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

According to an analysis published by Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution in 2008 Pakistan was the worlds ' most active ' state sponsor of terrorism including aiding groups which were considered a direct threat to USA.

McCarthy returned to Kansas City, Missouri where she sat on a number of boards and was an active fundraiser and sponsor for a variety of cultural and political activities.

The very active Graiguenamanagh Historical Society also sponsor a series of talks and lectures at this venue during the winter season.

In North America, Castrol has been an active sponsor of NHRA drag racing.

However in 2006, Congress enacted legislation to sponsor a pilot program to offer matching contributions to new active duty enlistees.

NREL is also an active organizer and sponsor in the DOE ’ s Solar Decathlon.

The brewery Hofbräuhaus, the tent's sponsor, has been active in Oktoberfest since 1955.

Phonak was the title sponsor of the UCI ProTour team Phonak Hearing Systems, active between 2002 and 2006.

In some places though, a wider purpose has been taken on, that of promoting the town's products or tourism ; and in some few cases, a very active and socially conscious Pro Loco will sponsor publications, scholarly research, or the restoration of local monuments.

The project was funded partially through a grant from the Ford Foundation, which at the time was an active promoter of Alliance for Progress, John F. Kennedy ’ s initiative to sponsor economic and social development in Latin America and counterbalance Communist influence in the region, particularly in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution.

Annie was an active member of the community and in 1966 her aspirations turned political, when Mrs Arkinstall of the Federation of Women's Associations agreed to sponsor her application to stand as an independent candidate in the Council by-elections.

The measure resulted in ten percent of New Zealand's active blood donors at the time to become ineligible to donate blood.

Advanced networking features in switches and routers combat these issues through means including spanning-tree protocol to maintain the active links of the network as a tree while allowing physical loops for redundancy, port security and protection features such as MAC lock down and broadcast radiation filtering, virtual LANs to keep different classes of users separate while using the same physical infrastructure, multilayer switching to route between different classes and link aggregation to add bandwidth to overloaded links and to provide some measure of redundancy.

At Jupiter, the outboard ( 11 m ) set of sensors could measure magnetic field strengths in the range from ± 32 to ± 512 nT, while the inboard ( 6. 7 m ) set was active in the range from ± 512 to ± 16, 384 nT.

The tael is a legal weight measure in Hong Kong, and is still in active use.

This concentration is also greater than many cities of northern China, long known for their high levels of air pollution, in which concentrations were above 200 up until a few years ago when active measure were taken to reduce levels of harmful particulate matter.

She took active part in the government of the country, at least in the measure that it was tolerated by the all-powerful minister Sosibius.

: Many times, the apparently active resistance encountered in subjects is no more than an unconscious measure of testing the hypnotist's willingness to meet them halfway instead of trying to force them to act entirely in accord with his ideas.

Some devices use active methods to measure ( such as sonar, laser, or radar ); others measure distance using trigonometry ( stadiametric rangefinders and parallax, or coincidence rangefinders ).

Tournament organisers and chess clubs send game results and appropriate fees to the ECF which then compiles ratings that measure the playing strength of active players.

A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection measure, consisting of a water supply system, providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, onto which fire sprinklers are connected.

It represents a measure of diffuse, nonradiative heating of the coronal plasma trapped by magnetic fields over active regions, and is an excellent indicator of overall solar activity levels.

The building of the King's School for boys, and the Queen's School for girls ( both in Chester ), was due in a great measure to the active interest which he took in educational matters.

At around the same time, Angelo Mosso tried to measure blood flow to the active brain by asking a subject to lie on a finely balanced bench with its fulcrum in the middle, expecting increase in brain weight from blood flow to tilt the bench.

The physiological blood-flow response largely decides the temporal sensitivity, that is how well we can measure when neurons are active, in BOLD fMRI.

Lorentz-effect imaging tries to measure the physical displacement of active neurons carrying an electric current within the strong static field.

It can also be seen that public and private playgrounds act as a preventative health measure amongst young people because they promote physical activity at a stage in children ’ s lives when they are active and not yet at risk from opting out of physical activity.

The ballot measure was an effort of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, a conservative group active in Oregon politics in the 1990s.

Soon after, he was seized by an illness which terminated his active career, and died, leaving the regency to the aged Polyperchon, passing over his son Cassander, a measure which gave rise to much confusion and ill-feeling.

A fire hydrant ( also known colloquially as a fire plug in the United States or as a johnny pump in New York City, because the firemen of the late 19th century were called Johnnies ), is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, suburban and rural areas with municipal water service to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire.

In the various series, shields function primarily as a defensive measure against weapons fire from other ships ; these shields also generally block the use of transporters while active.

Jay Blumler presented a number of interesting points, as to why Uses and Gratifications cannot measure an active audience.

He stated, " The issue to be considered here is whether what has been thought about Uses and Gratifications Theory has been an article of faith and if it could now be converted into an empirical question such as: How to measure an active audience?

The enzyme unit should not be confused with the International Unit ( IU ), an unrelated measure of biologically active substances.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

-- This budget will provide in the fiscal year 1961 for the continued support of our forces at approximately the present level -- a year-end strength of 2,489,000 men and women in the active forces.

-- About 30% of the expenditures for the Department of Defense in 1961 are for military personnel costs, including pay for active, reserve, and retired military personnel.

Traditionally, rates of pay for retired military personnel have been proportionate to current rates of pay for active personnel.

A guy can be an active and successful hot rodder for years without becoming even remotely involved with mathematical problems ; ;

Exclusive of esthetic values, such as high- or low-foam level, perfume content, etc., the requirements for the organic active used in washing textiles are high.

Thus, for aqueous media, we can think of the idealized organic active as an oleophilic or hydrophobic surface-active agent, and of an idealized builder as a oleophobic or hydrophilic surface-active agent.

Thus, for non-negative changes in the basic wage rate, the industry becomes the active wage-setter, since any increase in the basic wage rate can occur only by reason of industry acquiescence.

For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.

-- Glycerinated muscle, in the presence of the physiological agent ( ATP ) responsible for delivering energy to the mechanochemically active proteins of muscle, has been shown to undergo a contraction which is highly sensitive both to temperature and to solvent composition in mixtures of alcohols and water.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

" After the war, nationalists, especially those who had been active in the Continental Army, complained that the Articles were too weak for an effective government.

It is therefore better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement, but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.

But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".

The Russian A-35 anti-ballistic missile system for defense of Moscow was established in 1971, has been improved since, and is still active.