The Australian Broadcasting Commission (called the Australian Broadcasting Corporation after 1983) remained very important as a sustainer of orchestral music and sponsored most of the somewhat meagre amount of quality television.
The United States sponsored most of the original studies that brought global warming to the world's attention, back in the nineteen-seventies, and it is still the leading contributor to climate research.
The organization sponsored most of the judges who have had recent difficulties, including Justice Barron, and it has long supported the district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, who is handling the inquiry into Justice Barron.
But Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who sponsored most of the Senate's criminal-penalties provisions, called the House bill a "weak echo" of his legislation's language.
The American military initially sponsored most of the Awakening Councils but has been handing responsibility for managing and paying them to the Iraqi government with the promise that members will be hired into permanent government jobs.
The federal legislation, sponsored most recently by Representative Maurice D. Hinchey of New York and Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, both Democrats, has been introduced every Congressional session since 1989.
