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The medical community is deeply divided, over the issue, and the Catholic Church has been spearheading efforts to raising funds to oppose the proposals, known locally as Measure 16, or the Oregon Death With Dignity Act.

Liberal MP Warren Entsch, who has been spearheading efforts to develop a cross-party bill for same-sex marriage, said he would push ahead with presenting the legislation to parliament next week.

Since 2005, Steve has been spearheading efforts in New South Wales, Australia to honor and seek justice for hundreds of victims of gay hate crimes that ravaged the Australian gay community in the 1980s and 1990s, and took the lives of dozens of men, including Steve's younger brother, Scott, in Sydney in 1988.

The U.K.'s DCMS committee, which has been spearheading efforts to hold Zuckerberg to account, has spent the best part of this year asking wide-ranging questions about the impact of online disinformation on democratic processes.

Kurtzman, who co-wrote two of the recent "Star Trek" big-screen blockbusters and co-created "Star Trek: Discovery," has been spearheading efforts to launch several Star Trek spinoffs on the CBS All Access streaming service, including the return of Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard. Jean-Luc Picard

As leader of the nutrition sector's cluster, UNICEF has been spearheading efforts to strengthen the capacities of cluster members and to promote the harmonization of data collection Child protection UNICEF is working towards the widespread availability of protection services that prevent and respond to violence, exploitation and abuse of children and women.

Several Congressional representatives who have been spearheading efforts to protect the area made it a requirement in budget appropriations that the secretaries of agriculture and the interior come up with recommendations about how to preserve the highlands.

Unite's general secretary Mr McCluskey, who had been spearheading efforts to resolve the leadership crisis, said Mr Watson's actions were an "act of sabotage fraught with peril for the future of the party".

McCalla-Sobers and Lewis have been spearheading efforts to set up The Larry Chang Centre, an LGBT youth homeless shelter named after the pioneering founder of J-Flag.

"The goal is to inform the public, scientific community and media that the upcoming IPCC report doesn't have all the science to make informed judgments," said Jim Lakely, a spokesman for the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Chicago that has been spearheading the efforts.

Ashley LeFevre, a cashier at Peters' Bakery in San Jose, said another employee has been spearheading its efforts to draw in the Pokémon crowd — and has been the one defending the bakery's gym for her own favorite faction in the game, Team Instinct.