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Independent scholars seeking to replicate these studies’ findings must first replicate the data and then replicate the programs.
The modern states of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon thus arose as separate, independent entities.
Eventually, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon became independent countries, modeled on the Westphalian idea of the modern nation-state.
The emergence, after a prolonged and bloody civil war, of an independent South Sudan in 2011, freed the local Christian and animist population from the Arab/Muslim yoke.
The US had argued for years that the renminbi should be included in the SDR only if China opened its capital account, let its currency float freely, and had a more independent central bank.
Despite six years of economic decline and explosive corruption scandals, the country has a thriving free press and a strong independent judiciary, which could bring long overdue political and cultural changes to the country.
At the same time, the impact of technology on politics is relatively independent of regime type.
Al Jazeera – Arabic for “the island” – represented a haven of professional, independent, current affairs programming in a sea of one-sided, government-controlled Arab media.
There were no market prices, no published profit-and-loss statements, and no independent analyses.
Every year, Chile’s finance ministry asks a group of independent experts how fast Chile can grow without triggering inflation or other imbalances.
It may be no accident that independent Ukraine's first history textbook was written in Toronto, not Kiev.
The editor-in-chief of Ukraine’s leading independent news website, Ukrainska Pravda, told CPJ that in the months before his death, Sheremet and his partner, Olena Prytula, the site’s co-founder, had been under surveillance.
In 2007, Nelson Mandela founded The Elders to address just such risks, mandating this independent group of former leaders to “speak truth unto power.”
However, the credibility of such a system relies on the inquisitors’ ability to uphold standards of science that are genuinely independent from special interests both inside and outside the research community.
Between 60 and 80%, according to Russian authorities; around 20%, reckon independent observers.
Around the same time, the newly independent states of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine voluntarily relinquished their nuclear arms, and then joined the NPT.
In politics, fixed deadlines become a force for resolution, often independent of the wisdom of the decision for which a deadline was set.
The same system (recently put in place in Australia as well) has often been used by less democratically inclined governments to suppress independent, vigorous journalism; in Ecuador, for example, newspapers are regularly fined large sums for criticizing the government.
Brown understood that these priorities were essential, not just for the British economy, but also for the long-term prospects of Labour in power; and he entrenched this agenda by giving the Bank of England independent responsibility for keeping inflation low.
An independent Kurdistan could rouse Iran’s seven-million-strong Kurdish minority, while Iran’s Sunni minority (some 10% of the population) includes militant elements that could mobilize against the government.
Why buy a Windows machine when all your colleagues will own Macintoshes and can help you on them but not Windows, and when all the independent software developers will be programming for the Mac’s new Leopard operating system?
But even where such “social fabric” exists, a proliferation of independent efforts often reflects individuals’ passions rather than broad-based capacity.
One such trend is the emergence of independent figures of public moral authority: successful businessmen, respected academics and journalists, famous writers, and influential bloggers.
No independent commission or task force has been created to examine the problem, either.
The country must develop a sensible pricing mechanism, establish fact-based and independent regulation, create an efficient and decentralized supply system, and implement incentives for conservation.
What if Medvedev, after a few years, becomes as independent of his patron as Putin became of Boris Yeltsin, the man who put him on the Kremlin throne?
BRUSSELS – When the architects of the euro started drawing up plans for its creation in the late 1980’s, economists warned them that a viable monetary union required more than an independent central bank and a framework for budgetary discipline.
This can be explained partly by high inflation, which independent analysts put at roughly 25% – more than double the official estimate of 10%.
(Chile’s inflation figures have been criticized, too, though to a much smaller extent, and Chile’s state statistics institute is far more independent of the government than Argentina’s.)
And, while Noyer’s position at the central bank makes him independent, he is championing banking-sector autonomy in a country led by a left-wing government.
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