The threat to the family stalking the land was not women's liberation but an expansive government seeking to intrude upon and regulate the private sphere.
Those inappropriate requests included donor lists and expansive questionnaires seeking details about a group's relationship with elected officials past, present and future.
The proposal stopped short of the expansive system sought by President Obama and many gun-control advocates.
The difference is that the Taliban's agenda is more expansive — it seeks to overthrow the Pakistani state — and their operations are run by remote control from the tribal belt along the Afghan border.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday expanded benefits to same-sex partners of military personnel to include a range of services offered at various posts and bases, but it withheld more expansive benefits sought by gay and lesbian couples — in particular medical and dental coverage and housing allowances.
En route to Europe they have helped to bring out the best and the worst in the Turks (across the secular-religious divide), where abusive employment of informal labour and racist rhetoric coexists with social activism and expansive charitable organisation seeking to mitigate the Syrians' woes.
The animosity became so severe that Mr. Freeh, seeking an expansive investigation, ordered his agents to strike out on their own to interview White House and Democratic Party officials.
Catholic teaching has a rich and expansive vision that recognizes seeking peace, caring for the poor, the unborn, the immigrant and our environment -- "promoting the common good in all its forms" in the words of Pope Benedict XVI -- are all integral.
With this language, Congress denied the president the more expansive authority he sought and insisted that his authority be used specifically against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
"Belying Hezbollah's claim to be a domestic Lebanese 'resistance' organization, its expansive global network seeks to extend its malign influence, and the influence of Hezbollah's patron Iran, through the Middle East and beyond," Mr. Cohen said in a statement on the Treasury Web site.
