21.   Some activists believe that gays in powerful positions have a responsibility to acknowledge their homosexuality in order to increase public awareness and acceptance.

22.   Some activists believe Harshbarger moved too slowly in dealing with cases of employer violations of prevailing-wage laws.

23.   Still, longtime party activists believe the tension over Dole will melt in the spotlight of the convention.

24.   This has been enough to make conservative activists believe that Dole would make a tolerable president.

25.   While many activists believe that anti-gay crimes are on the rise across the country, statistics are difficult to come by.

26.   Activists believe the anonymity of the Hamburg baby slot will encourage frightened parents to give up their babies rather than leave them in unsafe locations.

27.   Activists believed Tang was doing nothing illegal and were trying to find a way to protest his detention, he added.

28.   AIDS activists believe the conservative white rulers of apartheid-era South Africa were unwilling to rouse themselves to fight a disease associated mainly with blacks and homosexuals.

29.   But human rights activists believe many cases go unreported.

30.   But some activists still believe that current or former military agents killed Gerardi over his accounting of wartime abuses.