1.   As a San Francisco supervisor, he sponsored successful legislation guaranteeing transgender rights and sponsored a study of prostitution laws, with an eye to legalization.

2.   At the time of his death, Mitchell was chairman of the Pacific Basin Institute in Santa Barbara, which sponsors studies on Asian business and society.

3.   Both studies were sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb and adhered to well-established criteria for clinical trials.

4.   Dale is editor-in-chief of Scientific American Medicine, a medical reference volume, which sponsored the study.

5.   He sponsored studies on technology, encouraged peasants to cultivate their own plots of land, and opened certain cities as special economic zones with market incentives and freedoms.

6.   Ms. Martin also said that Dole had sponsored a study that later found that sugar received a disproportionate amount of subsidy.

7.   Six state governments have sponsored studies examining the death penalty, including issues like racial bias and bad lawyering for indigent capital defendants.

8.   The association has sponsored studies to try to derail the legislation.

9.   The Cameroon study was sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

10.   The companies, sometimes indirectly, have sponsored such studies in several states, including Georgia and North Carolina.