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That is why battered women's advocates fought for a Defense Department Task Force on Domestic Violence.
After gay rights advocates fought for five years, the I.R.S. decision let the same rules apply to legally partnered same-sex couples — an estimated 60,000 in California.
The fenced-in area, it turns out, replaces one the county dismantled two decades ago after animal rights advocates fought to have its occupants set free.
Now, though, a growing number of professionals are questioning the effectiveness of the mandatory arrest policies that advocates fought so long and hard for.
A generation later, eyes again turned to the hulking brick tower overlooking the Harlem River when tenants, politicians and housing advocates fought to keep the building in a state-run rent-protection program and out of the hands of real estate investors.
Then, with an earnest sigh, he added "Isn't life just wonderful?" Mr. Trantino, after all, is New Jersey's most notorious murderer, a man whom governors, law enforcement officials and victims rights advocates fought to keep behind bars, even as the state's highest court tried to set him free.
For example, in the 1980s when Mulroney's Conservative government introduced The National Child Care Act, many advocates fought the legislation on the grounds that funding would be available to commercial as well as not-for-profit services, and a child tax credit would be established (White 2001).
And as civil-rights advocates fought for their humanity, self-definition was a fundamental goal.
