(1) Will Halm's oldest daughter is one of the first generation of IVF babies born via surrogacy to gay dads.
(2) As a lawyer, Will Halm is proud to note that, of all the parental orders he has written, asserting parental rights for gay couples, no court has overturned a single one.
(3) If you had to contrive a family to illustrate historical changes in gay parenting law, it would be Halm, an attorney specialising in fertility law, his partner, Marcellin Simard, and their children.
(4) Static photographic evidence of the occurrence of cyclovergence is presented that supports and extends the result of Crone and Everhard-Halm (1975).
(5) When Halm and Simard had their first child, they were told by psychologists that they would be inadequate parents.
(6) 'To hear, "You are the legal parents" in a court of law, that was significant': Will Halm and Marcellin Simard with Harley, Luc and Malina.
(7) In California, Will Halm and his partner were the first gay dads in a surrogacy case in the US to win the right to have their names on their child's birth certificate, after a legal battle in 1998.
(8) "That judgment in 1998, with our second child, was really a critical point," Halm says.
(9) Photograph: courtesy of Will Halm In the US, commercial surrogacy is legal and therefore slightly less complex, depending on which state you're in.
(10) Halm's mother started to make comments on which of the two dads the baby looked like.
Holm
Definition:
(n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
(n.) An islet in a river.
(n.) Low, flat land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
(2) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(3) Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat, said: “Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson cannot be here tonight.
(4) We examined the brains of 3 cases of OPCA [2 with striato-nigral degeneration (SND) and 1 without SND], 1 case of pure autonomic failure (PAF) without pathology of OPCA or SND, as well as 36 controls including 2 cases of Holmes' type cerebellar cortical atrophy and 2 cases of Joseph's disease.
(5) Northampton toiled manfully to seek a way back into the tie with Holmes, two-goal hero from the first match, making a number of threatening runs.
(6) Although only a small fraction of the yield of that of the murine Engelbreth-Holm, Swarm (EHS) sarcoma, the yield of the human basement membrane-producing tumors could be increased by rendering the mice lathyritic.
(7) Pronase-released glycopeptides of isolated laminin, from a mouse Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor, were fractionated using a combination of gel permeation chromatography and Con A-Sepharose affinity chromatography.
(8) David Holmes, chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, warned yesterday that inter-cultural adoptions were risky.
(9) The viability and morphology of RPE was improved by using a serum-free medium containing a bovine pituitary extract in conjunction with an extracellular matrix coating derived from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumors.
(10) "I do hope they don't insult her by offering her a suffragan [assistant] bishop's job," says the Rev Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, another prominent campaigner for women's rights in the church.
(11) The life of Oliver Wendell Holmes was selected as the subject for a lecture in the 1974 History of Medicine series at Yale University School of Medicine because, as the Latin subtitle of the essay suggests, he represents a fortunate and uncommon, but by no means unique, synthesis of the practical and aesthetic, of science and the humanities.
(12) They raised the issue of Holmes's sanity , a matter that could be key to avoiding the death penalty.
(13) Photograph: Barry J Holmes for the Guardian After Stockholm, they moved to a tiny house in west London with no living room or kitchen, and shared a mattress on the floor.
(14) Holmes's attorney Jonathan Wolfe told People magazine : "This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family.
(15) The Guardian has learned that Holmes, a close colleague of Adams, was close friends with Davidson and had partnered with him.
(16) Freeman's dependable, capable Watson unlocks this modern Holmes, a man who now describes himself as "a high-functioning sociopath".
(17) For his part, Holmes remained utterly silent, sitting with his eyes closed in the drawing-room.
(18) The study revealed satisfactionary accuracy of following scales: Al-Hampton, Am-Holmes, MAC-MacAndrews, SAL 1, SAL 2-Paluchowski.
(19) The present cases support a relationship between the ophthalmoplegic variant of the Guillain-Barré syndrome and acute postinfectious encephalomyelitis (brainstem encephalitis) on the one hand, and idiopathic autonomic neuropathies such as the Holmes-Adie syndrome and pandysautonomia on the other.
(20) Holmes Wilson, co-director of the Fight for the Future advocacy group, said: “Thanks to the second largest online protest in history, nearly 4m comments, White House and FCC phone lines ringing off the hook, and even nationwide street protests, President Obama finally gets it, and can say so.” He said the FCC should reclassify internet service, under Title II of the Communications Act, to give it “common-carrier” status, which would give the FCC far wider powers of regulation.