Proposition 8 was approved by a majority of California voters in November 2008, and has faced a series of legal challenges ever since.
At a time when the U.S. is confronting some of the worst, most knotty foreign policy challenges ever, with destabilizing revolts in Syria and across the Arab world, and a situation in Afghanistan that seems to grow worse by the day, it is a huge setback for the CIA suddenly to have to replace its director.
Fathers are facing more challenges than ever before - from military dads coming home after deployment to unemployed fathers struggling to make ends meet.
In my research for the book, I interviewed over 75 CEOs and executives at dozens of companies around the world and found them using stories in a much wider range of leadership challenges than I ever expected.
Learning from competitors, clients, and ever changing challenges is the best way to stay ahead of a rapidly changing business environment, and no one benefits more from this osmosis than a salesman.
Yasuni is without doubt one of the most important ecological challenges this human generation has ever confronted.
But despite these challenges, my dad hardly ever missed a day of work.
And certainly, it is true that the United States faces many challenges unlike our nation has ever felt before in our history.
Microsoft faces more challenges to its hegemony than ever, and its stock has almost doubled since the start of the antitrust trial.
But the challenges remain immense if we are ever to achieve a world without nuclear weapons.
"It is not just a challenge for Andy, it is one of the biggest challenges this group of players will ever have faced, " he said.
It was a development driven partly by the increasing complexity of societies founded on agriculture but much more by the organisational challenges of conducting warfare on an ever-greater scale.
On every front, we faced down impossible odds -- and out of the ashes of conflict, America rose more prepared than ever to meet the challenges of the day, sure that there was no trial we could not overcome.
Given all those challenges, whether the proposed market will ever be realized is far from clear.
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These and future video optimization technologies solve the ever increasing supply and demand challenges.
"As passenger and train numbers rise, the number of challenges increase and it becomes more complex than ever to run a reliable and cost-effective railway, " he said.
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As semiconductors shrink to ever-smaller process geometries, the challenges of manufacturing them become increasingly thorny.
The authors observe that the world needs the social sciences more than ever, in order to confront the major challenges facing humanity, such as poverty, epidemics and climate change.
The announcement is a reflection of the challenges facing global automakers as they try to cope with ever-rising government regulations on fuel economy and emissions, as well as rising consumer demands for affordable in-car technology.
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Norton says one of the biggest challenges for Microsoft is whether it innovate rapidly in the ever-changing environment of the Web, pointing out that Google had an "optimized" version of Gmail available for the iPad almost immediately after Apple released the device last month.
She returned to her community just two months after Katrina, but she and her family have been enduring the challenges of moving from one form of FEMA housing to another ever since.
However, despite the ongoing challenges the country faces, Obasanjo said he does not foresee Nigeria ever splitting in two, into north and south.
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While more people aging with HIV are living healthier, more productive lives than ever before, growing older with HIV may present multiple medical challenges.
Staying focused and determined in the midst of an ever-worsening employment picture is one of the toughest career challenges out there, says Eileen Wolkstein, a New York career coach with more than 25 years' experience.
His fear: These are people who have doggedly pursued a single goal without ever developing the kind of critical perspective that will help them face challenges later in life.
That's how we can rise to this moment and transcend the failures of the past, tackle the challenges before us, and leave behind a nation that is more prosperous than ever before.
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The challenges posed by the so-called fiscal cliff are well known, and the opportunity that Congress has had -- the House of Representatives in particular -- to mitigate some of those challenges has been available to Republicans in the House for many months now, ever since the Senate passed an extension of the tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.
And if there was ever a moment to do what America does best, to confront the challenges we face, this is it.
This has made the need for an adequate approach to international business strategy ever more important, so that managers can recognize and successfully address the challenges, and maximize the gains from the opportunities.
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In fact, since 2008 more people than ever before live in urban hubs, and running these increasingly vast enterprises poses serious challenges.
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