Word: although
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...although members of the Trust's Student-Faculty advisory committee have said they want to steer clear of funding groups' operational costs, preferring instead to give money for specific events, Radcliffe Rugby's $400 was granted for "general team expenses...
...Although Texas is by no means the only state in which such abuses can be found, it is very easy to point an accusatory finger at the public official charged with ensuring the integrity of the Texas justice system. However, from the perspective of those who are sentenced to die, it is truly unfortunate that any attack on the Texas death row has been characterized as an attack on Bush and lost amid the general election-year hubbub. Fixing a justice system that takes innocent lives should not be a political issue, as the Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan...
...decision that the constitutional right to a lawyer is satisfied even if the court-appointed lawyer is asleep. The court rejected an appeal from the Texas courts in which the lawyer appointed to represent Calvin Burdine in a capital case had slept through a large portion of the trial. Although the facts were uncontested, and although other appeals courts have found that a sleeping lawyer is constitutionally equivalent to no lawyer at all, the 5th Circuit found that Burdine did not deserve a new trial. It argued that Burdine could not prove that the specific segments of the trial...
...Then as now, the Israelis were able to contain the rebellion through force, but they were unable to end it - and the continued application of force was hurting Israel politically. That led the Israelis to begin tentative informal discussions with the PLO in 1989. Although the Palestinian delegates to the initial formal talks in Madrid in 1991 came from the West Bank and Gaza rather than from PLO headquarters, they all took direction from the leadership in Tunis...
...although any orange juice company is free to add the potassium claim to their own marketing materials, Tropicana has achieved a real coup by being first - in no small part because they actually wrangled a ruling out of the FDA in under 10 years...