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Opposition parties have not been banned, and the courts have not lost their independent authority.
The code of conduct on the field – where we expect players to give their all under clear rules that are swiftly enforced by independent referees – is fundamentally the same as what we expect from governing bodies off the field.
For starters, FIFA must introduce truly independent board members to the governance process – people who will ask hard questions and challenge the organization’s executives.
In the world of for-profit companies, investors are increasingly demanding better corporate-governance standards and more diverse boards that include independent members.
Countries as diverse as Peru, Vietnam, and Mexico would have signed on to labor laws enshrining workers’ rights to form independent unions and engage in collective bargaining, as well as intellectual property protections to defend against counterfeiting and unfair subsidies to state-owned enterprises.
But independent forecasters disagree here, too.
But independent forecasters are more pessimistic.
The independent Institute of Fiscal Studies calculates that the Chancellor could run cumulative current deficits of nearly £50 billion between now and the end of the cycle in 2005/06 without breaking the Golden Rule, rather than the £2.7 billion the Treasury currently projects.
So only if the most pessimistic independent forecasts are accurate is it conceivable that the Chancellor will break his Golden Rule in this cycle.
Consider Somalia, whose people, unlike those of most other newly independent African states, had roughly the same linguistic and ethnic background.
Today, its northern region, Somaliland, exists as a de facto independent state, though it lacks international recognition or United Nations membership.
In Yugoslavia, Slovenes, Serbs, and Croats managed to carve out independent republics, but the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina were less successful, and were subjected to a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” by both Croatian and Serb forces.
Google is perhaps the purest example of a company that transforms purchase intentions into income; most other “Internet” companies offer something of independent value on the other side of those searches.
With so-called “mini-grids” – smaller, localized power utilities – independent producers can electrify remote communities faster and more cheaply than traditional utilities can.
Everywhere the recipe is roughly the same: delegate policy to a group of competent people - the central bank - by making them formally independent from political pressure and providing them with a clear, explicit mandate.
That task does not differ from monetary policy and can be delegated to an independent body.
Each country should regain full control of its fiscal policy but delegate its macroeconomic component, decisions about deficits or surpluses, to an independent Fiscal Policy Committee given the long-run mandate of stabilizing, or in some countries reducing, the size of the public debt.
For most healthy men, however, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) – a leading independent panel of experts on prevention and primary care – has publicly recommended against widespread PSA tests.
Historical knowledge can help people to recognize certain patterns of behavior – attacks on an independent judiciary, for example – that have led to tyranny in the past.
One possible vehicle for accomplishing this is the independent councils that the EU’s so-called fiscal compact has now made mandatory for every country in the eurozone.
Independent national authorities would be better placed not only to assess implementation risks, but also to advocate for structural reforms.
They were especially persuasive in Britain’s former colonies, notably in newly independent African states.
It was important to make the new outlines of power clear: the State is independent from the Party.
The IMF would be freed from its political straitjacket, and like the new European Central Bank, should be independent of national governments.
Of course, von der Leyen knows that the formation of an independent European force isn’t really what the US president had in mind.
After the government seized influence over the independent television networks, NTV and TV6, Russia's media became vastly duller.
With a strong civil society, a free media, robust political opposition, and an independent judiciary, South Africa is well positioned for a turnaround.
What the EU learned from the subsequent four years of Balkan disasters under its management is now being tested by another major turning point and potential crisis – when and how Kosovo is to become independent.
If Russia does veto the Ahtisaari plan, the EU’s united facade will likely fracture, with many European countries refusing either to join the US in recognizing an independent Kosovo without the UN’s blessing or to send a supervisory mission there.
An independent report has chronicled 12 separate episodes of government meddling with court rulings.
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