In 2010, a lawsuit filed in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans ( LCR ), the nation's largest Republican gay organization, went to trial.

The largest bloc, led by Lodge, comprised a majority of the Republicans.

Democrats were still the largest political party with more than 42 million voters ( compared with 30 million Republicans and 24 million independents ).

Additionally, Jones ' changed views on the war and other issues angered many Republicans in his district, which has the largest military presence of any in North Carolina.

The Republicans gained a net of 12 seats from the Democrats, the largest swing since 1958, and gained control of the Senate, 53-46.

Although the South remained for the most part solidly Democratic, the Republicans now held more than 90 % of the seats outside the South, giving them their largest majority of the 20th century.

While conservatives controlled the largest number of elected positions for Republicans, progressive politics had been what brought many voters to the polls.

The largest bloc, led by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, comprised a majority of the Republicans.

Republicans won no seats previously held by Democrats in either the House or the Senate for the first time since the party's founding, and it was the largest seat gain for the Democrats since the 1974 elections.

The House had a Republican majority, and the Republicans were the largest party in the Senate.

The proposed C & O-B & O railroad would make it the hemisphere's second largest.

He set in motion a historical trajectory that in few decades would lead to one of the largest empires in history.

It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all.

* 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.

JBK has pushed the concept of " regional " heathenry as opposed to national " internet heathenry ", and has formed an active network of " Midwest Tribes " which if organized would be one of the largest organizations in America, regularly drawing attendance of over 200 to their yearly event ( Lighting Across the Plains ).

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

The researchers estimate that the river — known as a submarine channel — would be the sixth largest river in the world if it were on land based on the amount of water flowing through it.

Fitch said Cyprus would need an additional € to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank ( Cyprus's 3 largest banks ) to the Greek financial crisis.

Before the impact, models of Jupiter's atmosphere had indicated that the break-up of the largest fragments would occur at atmospheric pressures of anywhere from 30 kilopascals to a few tens of megapascals ( from 0. 3 to a few hundred bar ), with some predictions that the comet would penetrate a layer of water and create a bluish shroud over that region of Jupiter.

It was announced in February 2011 that the company name would revert to Meritor, Inc. Cummins, Inc. is by far the region's largest employer, and the Infotech Park accounts for a sizable number of research jobs in Columbus proper.

Denmark's general coastline is much shorter, at, as it would, among other geographical features, not include most of the 1, 419 offshore islands ( each defined as exceeding 100 square meters in area ) and the 180 km long Limfjorden, which separates Denmark's second largest island, North Jutlandic Island, 4, 686 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in size, from the rest of Jutland.

Since military upkeep took the largest portion of the imperial budget, any reforms here would be especially costly.

The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park — the world's largest — would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes.

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

He chose to take his vocabulary from Romance and Germanic, the languages that were most widely taught in schools around the world and would therefore be recognisable to the largest number of people.

In this model, companies would often distribute most of their products and services free of charge, so they can reach the largest possible audience.

Shortly after it burned down in 64 CE, Vespasian began its replacement, later known as the Amphitheatrum Flavium ( Colosseum ), which seated 50, 000 spectators and would remain the largest in the Empire.

Rupert's Land would eventually be Canada's largest land purchase in the 1800s.

Later on, and more influentially, he published Radio News, which would have the largest readership among radio magazines in radio broadcasting ’ s formative years.

New York, the second largest state and a bastion of anti-federalism, would likely not ratify it if Virginia rejected the constitution, and Virginia's exclusion from the new government would disqualify George Washington from being the first president.

The largest whales-baleen whales, a group which includes the blue whale-eat plankton and " it is commonly said that this species would be choked if it attempted to swallow a herring.

This would bring the German fleet to a strength where it could contemplate challenging France or Russia, but would remain clearly inferior to the world's largest fleet, the Royal Navy.

It has been obvious to the assessors, particularly those in shore communities, that boats comprise the largest category of tangible personal property which they have been unable to reach.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

Most of our largest cities have one or more separate vocational or technical high schools.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

Juveniles may also have had different lifestyles than adults, filling predator niches between the enormous adults and the smaller contemporaneous theropods, the largest of which were two orders of magnitude smaller than adult Albertosaurus in mass.

Today, the three largest US American Ásatrú organizations have specifically denounced any association with racist groups.

In recent years the largest of the trees, Kirk's " Minister's Pine ", has been damaged by vandals who have hammered coins into the bark.

The largest advantage of wind power is that larger wind turbines have a lower per-watt cost than solar cells, provided there is wind.

The class Cheilostomata have the largest number of species, possibly because they have the widest range of specialist zooids.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

Cephalopods such as the octopus and squid have the largest brains of any invertebrates.

In general, smaller animals tend to have larger brains, measured as a fraction of body size: the animal with the largest brain-size-to-body-size ratio is the hummingbird.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

They treated comradeship as of the greatest importance, those among them being the most feared and most powerful who were thought to have the largest number of attendants and associates.

Approximately 700 people lived at Birka when it was at its largest, and about 3, 000 graves have been found.

The second-floor galleries have a selection of the Museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo.

At in length and or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed.

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.

While David Kessler and Peter Temin consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first to have exceeded a population of over 1 million, George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1. 2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first with a population of over one million.