21.   Presumably they have reasons for not wanting legal recognition conferred on homosexual couples, but the Times had no room to mention them.

22.   Reform and Conservative Jews, who live mostly in the United States, have been pushing Israel to give legal recognition to their movements.

23.   Someday same-sex couples and their families will achieve the legal recognition and acceptance they deserve.

24.   Some of these families will become test cases in public, painful battles to gain legal recognition of these new arrangements.

25.   The gay community is not focused on same-sex marriages, as some might believe, but has instead focused on the legal recognition of domestic partnerships.

26.   The first step in bringing dead capital alive, according to De Soto, is to provide legal recognition to extralegal customs and relationships that have sprung up.

27.   The Vermont House of Representatives approved landmark legislation this week that will give gays and lesbians the right to seek legal recognition of their partnerships.

28.   While the pair strongly support the legal recognition of same-sex marriages, even in the solemnization of their own union they displayed their own style.

29.   Without legal recognition of both parents, one could lose custody of a child if the other died, or could be denied visitation if the couple broke up.

30.   Pope John Paul II Sunday called for legal recognition for embryos as he pushed on with his campaign against abortion and artificial procreation.