Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

Joe Lieberman and Al Sharpton did not believe they could get sufficient support in the state and concentrated their efforts on New Hampshire.

Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton received minimal support ; Joe Lieberman and Wesley Clark had opted not to participate in the Iowa caucuses.

In the past, Towns has been targeted by various Democratic Party constituencies, including factions led by his political rival Al Sharpton, and national and local labor unions, who resent his support for passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which passed the House of Representatives by a razor-thin margin.

Rawlings created several new positions and programs to support undergraduate education, began the construction of several new dormitories, centralized the location of freshmen on campus ( initially protested by Al Sharpton and others due to alleged racial implications ), and promoted stronger undergraduate admissions standards.

Al Sharpton is one of those guys who abused the revolution to support whatever it was he wanted.

The taxpayers of East Greenwich appropriate sums of money, as do other Kent County communities, for the support of the Kent County Memorial Hospital, a regional facility.

The public should understand that whether they support a state hospital or a VA hospital, the tax dollar has to be paid one way or the other.

Kiwanis, American Legion and other groups donate small sums and the mothers do what they can to bring in dollars for its support.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.

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From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

Some types of motions will not be accepted by the court unless accompanied by an independent sworn statement or other evidence, in support of the need for the motion.

Grant restructured the union army, and put other generals in command of divisions of the army that were to support his push into Virginia.

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Two other reasons for this title are that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings, and that he had saved those men that Hadrian, during his period of ill-health, had condemned to death.

The constitution also set out rules in such matters as marriage, divorce and inheritance, guidelines for mutual cooperation and support among Ismā ' īlīs, and their interface with other communities.

But Johnson, with the support of other officials including Seward, insisted that the states, not the federal government, had the right to address the issue of suffrage.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

In 371 BC at a Panhellenic congress of the Lacedaemonian allies, he voted in support of the Athenians ' claim and joined other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis.

Among other things, the high achievement in this area of excellence points to consistently strong advising and support, a logical outcome of Barrett ( Arizona State University's honor college ) investing more in honors staff than any other honors program that " Public University Honors reviewed.

In ‑ plane weather avionics are especially popular in Africa, India, and other countries where air-travel is a growing market, but ground support is not as well developed.

Assembly languages generally have no special support for arrays, other than what the machine itself provides.

This is distinct from technical support and other lines which use ANI so that a computer can automatically display the customer's account on a " screen pop " for the next available customer service representative: the MCI number is intended specifically for ANAC use.

The former astrologer, and scientist, Geoffrey Deans and psychologist Ivan Kelly conducted a large scale scientific test, involving more than one hundred cognitive, behavioral, physical and other variables, but found no support for astrology.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

* Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist political support organization

Even though Bulgaria did not send any troops to support the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Navy was involved in a number of skirmishes with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, which attacked Bulgarian shipping.

The Black Stone in the wall of the Kaaba in Mecca is thought to be a meteorite by some secular historians, but there is little support for this in the scientific literature

In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

" Black tacitism " was in support of princely rule, but " red tacitism " arguing the case for republics, more in the original spirit of Machiavelli himself, became increasingly important.

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A 2001 book by Quebec nationalist writer Normand Lester, Le Livre noir du Canada anglais ( later translated as The Black Book of English Canada ) accused Bennett of having a political affiliation with, and of having provided financial support to, fascist Quebec writer Adrien Arcand.

With the development of a more conservative Black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections.

This was organized by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, composed of British philanthropists who preferred it as a solution to continuing to financially support them in London.

The Steve Biko Institute was founded in Salvador, Brazil to support the education and pride of Black Brazilians.

Macainsh played with John Farnham on his Whispering Jack Tour and with Dave Warner's from the Suburbs, in 1988 he put together and managed a very successful AC / DC tribute band called Back in Black who went on to support Skyhooks on their comeback tour.

They took on causes of the Black Panthers, marching to the Women's House of Detention in support of Afeni Shakur, and other radical New Left causes.

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The NSF established an Office of Scientific Computing in 1984 and, with strong congressional support, it quickly announced a national competition that would fund a set of supercomputer centers like the one described in the Black Proposal.

Besides, 95 % of the respondents support the constant stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol even after 2045, when the time of the corresponding agreement between Russia and Ukraine is up.

During the 1930s, Gelli volunteered for the " Black Shirts " expeditionary forces sent by Mussolini to Spain in support of Francisco Franco's rebellion, and subsequently became a liaison officer between the Italian government and the Third Reich, with contacts including Hermann Göring.

* In 2009, Pakistan Army's paratroopers conducted a combat jump operations during Operation Black Thunderstorm and Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban Forces in North-West Pakistan, to seize control of strategic mountains areas to support Special forces and infantry troops.

Despite this, James continued to retain Black Douglas support allowing him to begin a campaign of political alienation of Albany and his family.

During the assault, Super Six One, one of the Army's Black Hawk helicopters providing insertion and air support to the assault team, was shot down and crashed in the city.

After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, a Byzantine successor state was founded there with support of Queen Tamar of Georgia, the Empire of Trebizond, which ruled part of the Black Sea coast from Trebizond until 1461, when its ruler, David, surrendered to Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

" She called the Black Panthers " our revolutionary vanguard ", and said " we must support them with love, money, propaganda and risk.

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The Black Prince, affected by a dysentery, soon withdrew his support from Pedro.