The five-day trip through Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon was designed to portray Mr Harper as a man who is both comfortable in, and in control of, the two-fifths of Canada that lies north of the 60th parallel.

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The four-man, eight-woman jury convicted Lay and Skilling of misleading investors with false statements designed to hide Enron's tottering finances.

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His newest project is the Anniversary watch, a wristwatch designed by Daniels to commemorate the invention of the coaxial and made entirely by Mr. Smith and his three-man team.

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His Equality (Marriage) (Amendment) Bill is designed to provide legal protection for those who back the current definition of marriage - he points to the case of a man demoted at work for comments on Facebook that gay marriage was "an equality too far" - and he wants to make sure people like teachers, foster carers and others are not disciplined for their beliefs.

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That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

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