The warring views on cloning were intended to frame the debate as the Senate prepares to vote in coming weeks on what sort of ban to impose on the cloning of human embryos.

有关克隆问题的争论是在为参院的辩论定调子，参院准备在几周后进行投票，以决定对人类胚胎的克隆实施何种禁令。

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His friendliness to blacks, according to Webster Brooks, the political director of the National Black Republican Leadership Council, is intended to increase his share of the black vote in the mid-west, which could provide the margin of victory in the region that traditionally decides the election.

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Labour's manifesto said clearly that the party intended to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.

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The 2005 vote was one of the final steps in a peace process intended to end years of fighting between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-controlled army.

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