Sentence examples for defense of proposition from inspiring English sources

At the time, a major issue was whether Mr. Davis should drop the state's defense of Proposition 187, the 1994 initiative that barred illegal immigrants from receiving health care or education benefits.

Gay marriage opponents are already facing a more literal poverty to go with their deficit of compassion: the group behind the defense of Proposition 8 is $2m in debt.

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I will gladly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with others inclined to fight in defense of this proposition.

It's great to be able to compare blogs and tweets from, for example, the pro-gay marriage Courage Campaign and from the Alliance Defense Fund, which is providing some of the legal defense for Proposition 8.

Charles J. Cooper, lead defense lawyer IMPACT OF PROPOSITION 8 "I've only been in love once, and that's with Kris.

Of the other results developed in the group of propositions following the deduction of universal gravity, the most heralded at the time were the defense of Copernicanism in Proposition 12 and the identification of the cause of the tides in Proposition 24 — two topics that Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes had all addressed.

(Cooper later became best known for leading the legal defense of California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, before the law was ultimately overturned).

Needless to say, the ASA has just kicked the legs out from underneath those who say that same-sex couples make inferior parents and dealt a major blow to the legal defense of DOMA and Proposition 8.

This has been evident from the historic passage of the Global Warming Solutions Act under Governor Schwarzenegger ― and later the defense of that law against Proposition 23 ― to the current leadership of Governor Jerry Brown and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon to pass Senate Bill 350.

But Andrew Pugno, a lawyer for the defense, said Proposition 8 had nothing to do with discrimination, but rather with the will of California voters who "simply wished to preserve the historic definition of marriage".