Sentences with phrase «introduced civil unions»

There are a number of other countries which have stopped short of allowing gay marriage but have introduced civil unions or registered partnerships for same - sex couples.

One example is Huntsman, who while governor of Utah signed a law introducing civil unions for gay couples.

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A Chilean senator said in June he will introduce a bill that would recognize civil unions among gay couples.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

Polis said lawmakers are pursuing civil unions instead of same - sex marriage legislation because no lawmaker introduced a measure to expand marriage in the state to include gay couples.

On 7 October 2015, Renzi introduced a bill to Parliament that would establish same - sex civil unions and gender - neutral cohabitation agreements.

intends to introduce legislation to make union organizing a «civil right.»

A decade of tremendous change in the art world and beyond, the 1990s saw dramatic upheavals across all spheres, from the rising cultural dominance of grunge to the technological revolution introduced by the Internet — never mind the shifting of geopolitical borders following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavian Federation, and the brutal civil wars raging across Africa.