• According to a specimen 2011 census on the Office for National Statistics website, they will also ask about "same sex civil partnership status" for the first time.

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  • We further recommend that interns be treated the same as any other employee in terms of probationary status and civil service protections.

    WHITEHOUSE: Testimony of Paul A. Denett

  • Ministers initially agreed that the status of civil partnerships should be reconsidered by 2019, with the scope to do it sooner if approved by Parliament.

    BBC: Gay marriage: Deal to allow bill to proceed in Parliament

  • Two weeks ago, CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, released its annual report on the status of Muslim civil rights in the United States.

    NPR: Fudging the Numbers on Hate Crimes

  • The council's advisory role means it can offer proposals and programs to executive bodies that emphasize women's education, employment and civil, legal and social status.

    CNN: Make Saudi women visible -- boost the economy

  • He said a special adviser was a "special person" who had status as senior civil servant, had access to all governmental papers and who advised at the highest levels.

    BBC: Finance Committee

  • As the third and independent authority of the State, the Egyptian Judiciary is comprised of secular and religious courts, administrative, non-administrative courts and a Supreme Constitutional Court, and penal courts, civil and commercial courts, personal status and family courts, national security courts, labour courts, military courts, as well as other specialized courts or circuits.

    UNESCO: Database 4: Legislation and guidelines

  • He seems to assume that the status distinctions of the Indian Civil Service (an exam-based meritocracy) somehow sprang full-grown from the habit of rewarding Whig landowners with earldoms.

    ECONOMIST: The British empire

  • In the 1960s and 1970s Mexicans' uncertain status bedevilled attempts to create a civil-rights movement as potent as the black one was.

    ECONOMIST: America's population

  • As Kennedy explained, removal of an unauthorized migrant is a civil matter where even if the person is out of status, federal officials have wide discretion to determine whether deportation makes sense.

    CNN: Why 'illegal immigrant' is a slur

  • "It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships, " he said.

    BBC: Justin Welby named as next Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Referring to civil partnerships, he acknowledged that the state had a right to define the status of people in co-habiting relationships.

    BBC: Next archbishop Justin Welby 'humble but firm'

  • Trade unions are insisting that civil servants transferred to the new quasi-government organisations be given the same pay, pensions and status as colleagues who remain behind.

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