Several smaller cities in other regions have chosen openly gay mayors, among them Providence, R.I., Portland, Ore., and Cambridge, Mass.
"Even in the West," it said, "mainstream media would not choose to openly pick a fight with the government".
Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don't choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.
Madeleine Albright said that as a diplomat she has learned that it is unwise to choose favorites openly, but she did admit that she got a laugh out of the recent cartoon showing a woman trying on clothes in a store and being given this hard-line sales pitch: "Madeleine Albright kicked butt in that suit".
While these suggestions may apply to many overly bearing women, not all buxom females may agree with this analysis and may choose to openly flaunt their "Gifts of God".
Thus far, Carl C. Icahn is the only party interested in Nabisco that has chosen to openly state his position.
When the Book of Discipline was amended in 1996 to include specific language to prohibit marriage equality, our leaders chose to openly discriminate against our own brothers and sisters in Christ by prohibiting ministers from conducting ceremonies that celebrated same-sex unions.
In 1970 he rewrote the election rules for the Democratic Party: mayors, bigwigs and labour barons lost their backroom power to choose delegates, and openly contested primaries replaced them.
The one member of the Murdoch management team who did, however, choose to speak openly was James Murdoch, who strode into a restaurant a block from News Corp headquarters, ordered a bourbon on the rocks, and answered questions.
In the past several years, however, Ms. Fedotova said she had noticed a slight increase in tolerance toward homosexuals in Russia, as more and more of them choose to live openly.
