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India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had hoped that caste consciousness would wither away after independence.
January 30 marked the 68th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, who fought not merely for independence, but also for a more just, equal, and moral India.
Neither track of Palestinian politics – resistance or negotiation – offers hope of achieving independence.
New Life in Old AgeZURICH – Many of us have seen our aging parents or grandparents lose their independence.
Such efforts are also vital to find ways to stem more effectively the deterioration of people’s productivity and independence, by preserving their physical strength, mental acuity, and senses like hearing and vision.
And Milorad Dodik, the Kremlin-backed leader of its constituent Serb Republic, Republika Srpska, has been toying with the idea of a referendum on independence.
For Poland and other Eastern European countries, whose independence and democracy are based on the current global status quo, this can be a matter of life or death.
And now, though Britain was a signatory of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukrainian independence, only France and Germany attend any serious negotiations.
Kosovo’s recent unilateral declaration of independence sharpened the Chinese government’s anxieties over the protests in Tibet.
Although supporters of Kosovo’s independence argue that it sets no international precedent, China’s rulers fear otherwise.
The West has historically stressed two bright lines with respect to Taiwan: no independence and no use of force by China.
But, in view of Kosovo’s independence against the will of Serbia and without UN sanction, these bright lines have become blurred in China’s eyes.
An unequivocal reaffirmation of that understanding, particularly by the United States in the light of its role as primary backer of Kosovo’s independence, is now needed if China is to be reassured that its unity will not be called into question.
For this reason, central banks changed their statutes to ensure greater independence from the government.
Yet political independence can lead to a complete lack of political accountability.
But now, after three decades in which political independence has exposed central banks to intellectual capture, a bit of rebalancing is necessary.
Russia has breached Article 2 of the UN Charter, which enjoins member states to “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
These two regions have now proclaimed their independence, and Moscow has given its blessing to a secession that is likely to be the stepping stone to incorporation by Russia.
A woman who does "man's work," shows too much independence, or stands up to men is overly masculine, "hombruna."
For the presidential election to choose a successor to President Eduard Shevardnadze, scheduled for January 4, 2004, offers the country its first real hope since independence in 1991.
The remarkable leaders of the independence generation – such as Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta – received advice from the world’s top economists.
To define Russia's interests, begin with the basics: securing national independence and unity.
Today, no one threatens Russia's independence, despite paranoid rants to the contrary.
If central banks attempt to exit their aggressively accommodative policies without complementary actions to restructure debt or restore demand, growth, and investment, growth will suffer – as will central banks’ credibility, or even their independence.
Such action will probably have to wait until the political consequences of low growth, high inequality, mistrust of international trade and investment, and the loss of central-bank independence become too great to bear.
It took politicians with vision and diplomatic skills to craft the political entity that emerged after independence.
At the same time, major shifts began occurring in the Third World, and accelerated in the post-war decades: independence in India, liberation in China, decolonization in Asia and Africa, nation building and industrialization in Latin America.
Taming Politicians on Both Sides of the AtlanticDespite occasional grumbles from politicians, no one seriously doubts the European Central Bank's independence, or that monetary policy within the euro zone is therefore well insulated from political pressures.
US fiscal resolve has been tested at least five times: at independence, in the war of 1812, during and after the Civil War, and in World War I and World War II.
The EU today operates something like the US under the Articles of Confederation, which defined the US’s ineffectual governing structure after independence from Britain in 1781 but prior to the adoption of the Constitution in 1787.
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