All members of the group were openly gay and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues.

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

* Black September – Black September was a group formed by leading Fatah members in 1971, following the " Black September " events in Jordan, to clandestinely organize attacks that Fatah did not want to be openly associated with.

Some parties openly profess their focus on a particular group ; for example, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's focus on the Dravidian population, and the Shiv Sena's pro-Marathi agenda.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

The fifth season of the show was a radical departure from the storyline of the previous seasons, with the Taelons being replaced by a new and more openly hostile alien race, a group of energy vampires called the Atavus.

Mutiny is a conspiracy among members of a group of similarly situated individuals ( typically members of the military ; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians ) to openly oppose, change or overthrow an authority to which they are subject.

A group of players who were openly hostile toward Bradman formed during the tour.

Combat 18 is an openly neo-Nazi group that is devoted to violence and is hostile to electoral politics, and for this reason Sargent split decisively from the BNP in 1993.

Rundstedt led a group of senior officers in opposing the appointment, on the grounds that Reichenau was too openly a supporter of the regime.

One such group, the Ku Klux Klan, is the most widely known organization that openly practiced acts of violence and segregation based on race.

The White League, a paramilitary group with chapters across the state beginning in 1874, openly disrupted Republican gatherings and intimidated blacks to repress their vote.

In 1944, a group of parents complained to the court that the leaders of the League were openly telling their daughters to have illegitimate children.

On October, 13 2001 the party openly split into three factions: The progressive wing around Bert Anciaux, which would later become the Spirit party, the conservative nationalist wing around Geert Bourgeois and a centre group opposing the imminent split.

Efforts to honour his life and work on the 60th anniversary of his birth were abandoned in September 2006 following the protests of a radical Islamic group on the archipelago, Uamsho, who said he had violated Islam with his openly gay lifestyle.

Among American left-wing groups, a caucus may be an openly organized tendency or political faction within the group,

When the group openly pleads for ' unitary urbanism ', as defined by Constant and Debord, Constant joins the SI.

The group included members of other Trotskyist tendencies who were able to organise openly within its ranks to gain support for their views.

By 1910, the only group which openly claimed descent from the right wing gathered only nostalgic royalists, and from 1924 on the term " right wing " practically vanished from the parliamentary right's glossary.

This, coupled with pressure from a group around leading industrial activist Brian Behan, led them to form the Socialist Labour League in 1959, independent and for the first time openly Trotskyist, although still with most of its members in the Labour Party.

The group, or more appropriately, the man who most openly opposed the White Revolution and the Shah himself was Ruhollah Khomeini.

Dr. Parnas has joined the group of scientists which openly criticize the number-of-publications-based approach towards ranking academic production.

The group was a " charity " that openly supported fighters against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Hofstadter also noted that " sexual freedom " is a vice frequently attributed to the conspiracist's target group, noting that " very often the fantasies of true believers reveal strong sadomasochistic outlets, vividly expressed, for example, in the delight of anti-Masons with the cruelty of Masonic punishments.

There are also some scientists who have expressed grave reservations about the idea that the brain forms representations of the outside world at all: influential members of this group include psychologist J. J. Gibson and roboticist Rodney Brooks, who both argued in favor of " intelligence without representation ".

Basic constructions, such as the fundamental group or fundamental groupoid of a topological space, can be expressed as fundamental functors to the category of groupoids in this way, and the concept is pervasive in algebra and its applications.

Pissarro agreed with the group about the importance of portraying individuals in natural settings, and expressed his dislike of any artifice or grandeur in his works, despite what the Salon demanded for its exhibits.

Pissarro now expressed his opinion to the group that he wanted an alternative to the Salon so their group could display their own unique styles.

Drew Pinsky has expressed a different opinion, saying that he can help by being in group meetings with others and is not part of the staff, but part of the patients of this second season.

The concentration of hydroxide ions can be expressed in terms of pOH, which is close to 14 – pH ,< ref group = note > p ( OH ) signifies the minus the logarithm to base 10 of

However, when printed on paper, the IBAN is expressed in groups of four characters separated by a single space, the last group being of variable length as shown in the example below:

The presence of continuous symmetries expressed via a Lie group action on a manifold places strong constraints on its geometry and facilitates analysis on the manifold.

In addition to their abstract properties, group theorists also study the different ways in which a group can be expressed concretely ( its group representations ), both from a theoretical and a computational point of view.

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

* multicast delivers a message to a group of nodes that have expressed interest in receiving the message ;

In the 1980s and 1990s, The Urinals, Manic Street Preachers, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and R. E. M., expressed a fondness for the group.

Nicks appeared in the video for " Bootylicious " and in an episode of MTV's Making The Video that featured it, in which she expressed her admiration for both the song and the group.

Grade of service is the probability of a call in a circuit group being blocked or delayed for more than a specified interval, expressed as a vulgar fraction or decimal fraction.

An imperial audience was arranged for a group of iconodule clerics, including Theodore, at which however Michael expressed his attention to " leave the church as he had found it.

( Inversion and unit are needed to get the right notions of homomorphism and so that the group laws can be expressed as equations.

; Sense of Identity: The drive for a sense of identity is expressed nonproductively as conformity to a group and productively as individuality.

This is expressed by the Jordan – Hölder theorem which states that any two composition series of a given group have the same length and the same factors, up to permutation and isomorphism.

“ The determination expressed in the diverse policies to give this unfortunate group the help it needed was among the most humane and important initiatives of the 1964-70 government .”

A few months after the exclusion, in the context of judicial prosecution against the group by the German state, Debord expressed his esteem to Gruppe SPUR, calling it the only significant artist group in Germany since World War II, and regarding it at the level of the avant-gardes in other countries.