Sentences with phrase «after independence in»

The legal system is theoretically based on the common law, inherited from the UK after independence in 1948; however this has been eroded as a result of military rule.

Revealing another aspect of the transition, the haunting photo montage, Untitled 21, from the suite Mémoire, by Congolese artist, Sammy Baloji investigates the impact of industrial development in the Belgian Congo during the colonial era and its demise after independence in 1960.

After independence in 1960, voters from the smaller English - speaking zone opted to join Cameroon rather than neighbouring Nigeria, but they have often felt marginalised by the Francophone government in Yaounde.

It was only after independence in 1947 that the govenment instituted a policy of affirmative action, through its Constitution, to reduce these inequalities.

When Western missionaries largely left India after independence in 1947, he says, God raised up indigenous Indian workers whose efforts are bearing more fruit than churches can harvest.

They were built mostly after Independence in 1948, when the new government's policies of providing primary schools on a vast scale wiped out the missionary institutional efforts prior to that time.

After independence in 1947 most of this real estate passed to the native Christian churches.

Not exact matches

Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont is holed up in exile in Brussels, after declaring Catalonia's unilateral independence from Madrid, and then fleeing possible arrest for sedition.

Catalonia's deposed regional president has said he will attempt to run the region from a new power - base in Brussels after declaring independence from Spain.

Yet there's a new push for a breakthrough in relations, especially after President Alexander Lukashenko has started to display more independence in his dealings with Putin.

After the Enron and WorldCom scandals of 2002, the Sarbanes - Oxley Act was instituted in the United States to, among other things, increase the independence of outside auditors when they review corporate financial statements.

China National Petroleum Corp took a financial hit as unrest flared near its two most important oil fields in South Sudan after the country declared independence in 2011.

Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

LONDON — British financial group Standard Life said Thursday it is drawing contingency plans to move some of its operations out of Scotland in the event it votes for independence — a decision certain to stoke debate about the fate of business after the Sept. 18 ballot.

Some experts argue that you can get a better deal in August, but deals on grills are already steep after Independence Day.

«We gave a lot of attention to how to structure the CFPB and how to protect its independence, because its job is to go after some very powerful forces in the economy,» the Massachusetts Democrat said.

«Today, after welcoming its new directors Ursula Burns and John Thain, the Board voted unanimously to move forward with the proposed investment by SoftBank and with governance changes that would strengthen its independence and ensure equality among all shareholders,» the board said in a statement to TechCrunch.

Both were born after India achieved independence from Britain in 1947, and both came to the United States after the Hart - Celler Act of 1965 abolished national origin quotas.

We anticipate an eventual easing of tensions in Spain over Catalonian independence and view a potential populist government following elections in Italy in 2018 as unlikely after recent changes to the electoral laws.

The deal is expected to lead to some job cuts and is likely to face tough questions from politicians in Scotland where there is increasing pressure for a second independence referendum after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

We reached financial independence in 2012 and I retired from my engineering career soon after.

''... the Zionists with the support of the Ottoman Empire settled in Palestine, then the Jews claimed independence from the ottoman empire and retained control of that part od Palestine which is now Israel...» My understanding was that the Allies took control of Palestinian lands after they defeated the Central Powers, including the Ottoman Empire, in WWI.

But this year, American Independence Day observances will have a decidedly different tone as Americans take seriously the freedom we have after seeing that freedom threatened in an attack.

(CNN)-- Malaysia's first openly gay pastor has chosen Wednesday, coinciding with the country's Independence Day, to get married to his American partner in New York, barely a month after same - sex marriage became legalized there.

Even with free slave labor, USA was still in «toddler» development stages 45 yrs after independence.

After the War of Independence and the founding of the new nation, the Baptists found themselves in an enviable position.

A full 20 years later, after Judas and a successor brother, Jonathan, had died in battle, a third brother, Simon, took over, and through his diplomacy achieved Judean independence, establishing what would become a full century of Jewish sovereignty.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Not long after his summer blockbuster Free State of Jones came out, Matthew McConaughey explained to The Daily Beast that his character «had a moral code rooted in the Bible and the Declaration of Independence: Love thy neighbor as thyself, and all men are created equal.»

More than a thousand people have attended a service for reconciliation in Scotland after last week's independence referendum.

Seventy one years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Mormons were driven out of Nauvoo, Illinois, which at the time was as large as Chicago, because their beliefs were not consistent with mainstream religions in America.

While Morelos's Constitution of Apatzingán was never put into practice, the plan of Iguala (1821), drawn up by Iturbide after independence, also confirmed the official status of Catholicism as the state religion and denied toleration to all other religions.32 The war for independence, in other words, was reasonably conservative in purpose, especially with respect to the church.

Japan, Taiwan, and Korea are among the nations that defied all expectations of informed foreign observers in the postwar period; by the same token, Burma and Ghana, two of the countries most frequently cited as likely economic successes after independence, did an equally creditable job of disappointing the experts.

Crowds began gathering on the Maidan, Kyiv's Independence Square, in late November 2013 after President Viktor Yanukovych retreated from signing an agreement with the European Union that would have deepened trade relations and opened the way for greater political and military cooperation.

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial subjects: Gandhi was arriving in South Africa after completing his studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years in the future.

But at least for today - Egypt's first Independence Day - Islam has taken a back seat to a very different sort of religion: faith in the power of an oppressed people to grasp after freedom and feel it fresh in their own shaking hands.

«SLOVENIA» TODAY, WHERE COMMUNIST GENOCIDE GOES ON 24/7 FOR CREATION OF GREATER BYZANTINE SERBIA UNDER RUSSIAN FLAG http://sloveniatoday.blogspot.com «SLOVENIA» WHERE GERMANS (also Croatians in Croatia) ARE GETTING WIPED OUT 66 YEARS AFTER WWII OR 20 YEARS SINCE THEIR «INDEPENDENCE» (independence on INDEPENDENCE» (independence on independence on paper only).

Then 14 years after the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed «all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,» the lie was embedded in the U.S. legal structure through the Naturalization Act of 1790, which barred the rights of citizenship from both free and enslaved black people.

As nation after nation in Asia and Africa gained their independence in the l950s, it became apparent to these newly «free» nations that the old political colonialism had largely been replaced by new economic and information colonialism.

At independence in 1957, many predicted racial or religious civil war for the country, and a communist insurgency was put down only after a major struggle.

The Assyrians and Babylonians had long been a political threat to the independence of the Hebrew people before the latter finally succumbed to superior force and were either destroyed or dispersed, in the case of the ten northern tribes, by Assyria, or continued, in the case of Judah, in a vassal relationship even after their return from the Babylonian captivity.

The conflict within the Jewish community reached its apex in June 1948, after the Arab invasion that followed independence, when the Irgun boat Altalena attempted to unload a large shipment of arms.

On the whole, however, the Congress, helped greatly by the moral prestige of Gandhi and Nehru, succeeded in becoming a truly pan-Indian party in the first two decades after independence, able to appease the potentially conflicting interests of Muslims and low - caste Dalits as well as upper - caste Brahmins.

First he argued against taxing the colonies altogether, and then after the fateful breach in 1776 he argued that American independence should be recognized and the war brought swiftly to an end.

By co-operating with various Seleucid kings, the Jewish rulers were able to maintain a relative independence which persisted even after Antiochus Sidetes besieged Jerusalem in 134; the new Jewish king John Hyrcanus (135 - 105) was able to bring about mutual disarmament.

Eastern Sudan, bordering on southern Egypt, retained its independence and Christianity long after Egypt became a province of the Islamic Empire in the first century after the Hijrah.

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.

Save for a brief flash of independence under the courageous Maccabees they were never again to be a free people — at least not until, after nearly two thousand years of dispersion, they established the new state of Israel in 1948.

After a 1 - 4 start they reverted to a ground - oriented attack and eventually finished the regular season with five consecutive wins before losing to LSU in the Independence Bowl.

NC State -4 v. Vanderbilt, in the Independence Bowl: The Wolfpack are a pretty good football team, while Vanderbilt might be inflated after taking down some seriously flawed Ole Miss and Tennessee squads.