Then, last spring, over sirloins at our favorite steakhouse in Albuquerque, he told me that he believes gays ought to be able to marry, adopt, serve openly in the military and be protected from every form of discrimination.
By the time he became president of the Urban League, Mr. Walcott and his wife, Denise, had four children: two of their own and two whom they adopted after serving as their foster parents.
If the plan for retroactive reductions is adopted, inmates serving time for certain crack offenses can petition a judge for a hearing on whether they can be freed as a result of having their sentences reduced.
The main character, Winnie, was a young woman who had to support her parents and adopted brother, serving as a reflection of the changing role of women in society.
Yet, even though the Village has explained that the ordinance was adopted to serve those interests, it has never contended that it should be so narrowly interpreted.
We need to develop other coordination agreements that can be adopted to serve the aim of the Paris Agreement, even though they are negotiated outside of Paris.
These results suggest that technologies are adopted to serve comfort or quality objectives rather than to save energy, or that buildings' users confound the designers' intentions.
To reduce the key rekeying cost, join tree and exit tree are adopted and served as the temporary buffers for joining and leaving users.
We have held that the freedom could be overridden "by regulations adopted to serve compelling state interests, unrelated to the suppression of ideas, that cannot be achieved through means significantly less restrictive of associational freedoms".
