A pastoral letter from the pope, who was born in Poland, read in churches across the country last weekend called on Poles to cast their ballots for joining the union, and called Poland's planned membership "an act of historic justice".
North Korea has declared South Korean membership an act of war as well.
Rather than policing and correcting their own membership, they act like wounded, cornered animals, lashing out at critics from the outside.
Most are uninterested in the history of my membership in ACT UP, but a few, like Jake, are curious, even insistent.
If translated to larger geographic scales, our results would imply that the extent of variation in uniparentally inherited genetic markers, which are typically associated with historical migration on a continental scale, could equally likely be the result of many small and different cumulative effects of social factors such as clan membership that act at a local scale.
The membership list acted as the sampling frame comprising names, dates of birth and contact details of 4,322 people who have expressed an interest to take part in research.
The oath linked party membership to the act of advocating "the overthrow of the government by force or violence," but these are two different things.
The Palestinians have yet to determine whether to seek full membership — such an act faces a threatened American veto in the Security Council — or to petition the General Assembly for enhanced observer status.
They are mortal, provisional, finite and inclusive, since membership is an act of choice not an accident of birth.
In 1961, the Supreme Court, in a 5 4 decision, upheld Scales' conviction, finding that the Smith Act membership clause was not obviated by the McCarran Act, because the Smith Act required prosecutors to prove first, that there was direct advocacy of violence; and second, that the defendant's membership was substantial and active, not merely passive or technical.
