Sentence examples for granting health from inspiring English sources

He's for civil unions, and in favor of granting health insurance and inheritance rights to same-sex couples, and says the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

But she used her first veto as governor to block a bill that would have prohibited the state from granting health benefits to same-sex partners of public employees.

He mentioned several recent moves at the state and local level around the country to pass legislation granting health benefits and other legal rights to the partners of gay workers.

Yesterday morning, Mr. Pataki not only promised to urge President Bush to loosen restrictions on illegal immigrants, but highlighted his administration's policy of granting health and social services to people regardless of their immigration status.

On Apr. 2 President Bush helped clear the way by signing an order granting health officials the power to quarantine patients with SARS, adding it to a list of killers such as smallpox, cholera and Ebola.

If that wasn't enough to shake up the more relaxed management practices of the 1990s, Perot has also reinstated drug testing and reversed the company's previous policy granting health benefits for same-sex partners.

Then, earlier this year, Mr. Bruno quietly granted health benefits to gay partners who work for the Senate.

The Philharmonic previously granted health benefits and a clause that allows musicians to be paid if a concert is canceled.

(The Persuasion Problem) 3) Even if we did agree to grant "health" primacy in any discussion of medicine, it is difficult or impossible to define it with rigor.

The labor officials, from Local 254 of the Service Employees International Union, hailed the agreement, saying it was hard to persuade the cleaning companies to grant health coverage to any part-time workers.

Rather than being something that we take for granted, health is now targeted and mediated by way of medical technologies and thereby standardly subjected to various regimes in which we change our life style and preferences in order to stay healthy or even becoming more healthy (meaning having better numbers as regards the bodily functions that we measure).