Because domestic partnerships in the United States are determined by each state or local jurisdiction, there is no nationwide consistency on the rights, responsibilities, and benefits accorded domestic partners.

Thus, they have no more and no fewer benefits accorded to them than members of other faith communities.

If there is to be a debate about welfare benefits, argues Sinfield, it must include the benefits accorded to the well-off, such as mortgage relief.

They also face - some of them willingly - possible legal battles in their home states if they seek to have their marriage recognized or to apply for benefits accorded married couples.

He worked hard to have the Confederate Marine Corps receive the personnel, supplies and other benefits accorded to other branches of the military.

In Kazakhstan, for instance, Mr. Nazarbayev recently questioned some financial benefits accorded foreign companies, and government officials reacted sharply to the recent State Department human rights report, which was critical of Kazakhstan.

Mutualistic interactions are best visualized as positively sloped isoclines, which can be explained by the fact that the saturation of benefits accorded to mutualism or restrictions posed by outside factors contribute to a decreasing slope.

In particular, the divide between the largely secular Israeli majority and a strictly Orthodox minority has re-emerged this week as Parliament takes up measures relating to benefits accorded to highly observant Orthodox Jews.

The Israeli Interior Ministry today hastened to provide the militia members many of the benefits accorded immigrants here, including work visas, health insurance, temporary housing and help in finding jobs.

'Privilege tonnage', a benefit accorded ships' officers, allowed him a measure of cargo space for private trade.