Sentence examples for extending domestic from inspiring English sources

For a decade, the same intrusive Congress barred the city from extending domestic partnership rights to gay people.

And while he had implied earlier that he supported extending domestic partnership benefits to employees of city contractors, he said yesterday, "I don't think the city should insist that all its suppliers have domestic partner benefits".

But Vote for Marriage NC has failed to mention that on 27 separate occasions, lower courts in Ohio assumed they were barred from extending domestic violence legal protections to those couples before the state's Supreme Court definitively resolved the issue.

Mr. Bloomberg gave an interview to gay newspapers last week in which he gave qualified but clear support to extending domestic-partnership benefits to employees of city contractors.

About 58 percent of Fortune 500 companies extend domestic partner coverage to employees with same-sex partners, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

A group of City Council members called on New York City Transit to extend domestic partnership benefits to all employees yesterday.

The Bush administration and Senate Republicans are seeking to extend domestic national security subpoena powers now held only by the F.B.I. to both the C.I.A. and the military.

Yet Mr. Gensler has met fierce resistance — from banks, some C.F.T.C. commissioners and regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission — to his plan to extend domestic rules to foreign affiliates of American banks and to foreign banks operating in the United States.

Although the city extends domestic partnership benefits to its employees, New York City Transit has argued that as an independent agency it is not bound to do so, city officials said.

Mr. Allen was working at Mobil at the time of the merger with Exxon, and was involved in persuading Mobil's former chairman, Lucio Noto, to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and to extend domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples.

Some companies extend domestic partner benefits to one area, like bereavement leave, as a test, says Ilse de Veer, a benefits consultant with Mercer Human Resource Consulting.