Sentences with phrase «on national independence»

Anti-EU march of Hungarian and Polish nationalists and far right extremists, on National Independence Day Warsaw, Poland, November 2015

In most countries, fireworks displays take place on national independence or unity / reunification days, New Year's Eve, to celebrate successful elections, and during special local and regional celebrations.

Not exact matches

Further evidence comes from the interesting fact that the parchment version of the Declaration of Independence that is on display and kept in the United States National Archives wasn't actually written until July 19th; this being a copy of the approved text that was announced to the world on July 4th, with about 150 - 200 copies being made on paper and distributed on that date (26 of which are still around today, thus pre-dating what is now generally thought of as the «original»).

According to Catalonian authorities, 90 percent of people voted in favor of independence on Sunday, but the national government said the referendum was illegal.

The party, formerly Lega Nord (Northern League) used to campaign for independence for Italy's northern regions but has now focused on national matters, particularly immigration.

Americans will spend more than $ 7 billion on cookouts and other celebrations of the Declaration of Independence, up from $ 6.8 billion in 2016, according to a report by the National Retail Federation.

It has prompted renewed calls from Scottish nationalists for a vote on independence, and members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have complained the national government has not involved them enough its Brexit negotiation preparations.

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Local religious independence and political independence on a national basis, were again being actively intertwined and this progress, laced with the duplicity and corruption common to such affairs, was at the heart of local and international politics during the coming twelve years.

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.

Dressed in his National Guard uniform, the 29 - year - old Yepremian, born on Cyprus of Armenian parents, took the naturalization oath along with 918 other new citizens in a special ceremony the evening of Independence Day.

As well as a direct effect on support for Scottish independence, personality also has important indirect effects, which operate through the influence of personality on things such as a voter's sense of national identity and appetite for risk.

Perhaps, the best answer is that energy independence has never been a simple technical, economic or political solution to the problem of foreign oil dependence; rather, it has been a cultural artifact, a discourse evoking particular American notions of the exceptional nation, American innovation and ingenuity, the can - do spirit, and the very notion of «independence» on which the American national project has been built.

The effect of personality on British identity and the importance of national identity for support for independence again suggests that personality is vitally important to understanding attitudes towards Scottish independence.

However, I do think any Eurosceptic will end up in in reactionary territory were they to take Powell seriously as a prophet on the substance of what «national independence» means, not least because this was already a self - professed reactionary project in 1968 (with Powell believing the British Nationality Act of 1948 was the root of all of our troubles).

In the UK, the issue of Scottish independence has again become topical, as the Scottish National Party (SNP) have recently published a draft referendum bill (on the 20th of October 2016).

The Scottish National Party's commitment had always been to hold a referendum on independence if they were elected to the Scottish Parliament.

The history of Ghana's march to independence is one topic that continues to divide the country especially among members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on one hand and National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Convention People's Party (CPP) on another.

Labour dramatically overturned the Scottish National party's (SNP) majority in the Dunfermline by - election last night, in a move which casts further doubt on Alex Salmond's ability to win the Scottish independence referendum next year.

He also stated that the association was excited by the progress made in the amendment of the Constitution by the National Assembly, adding that the «exercise would greatly remove all constitutional impediments on the granting of autonomy through financial and administrative independence to the Office of the Auditors - General at the federal, state and local governments in the country.»

Yes what a triumph it will be for the National Union of Journalists in particular the over 4000 of them that work for the BBC when Labour wins the next election and effectively turns whatever is left of the UK at that time (given the likelyhood of a referendum on independence for scotland before then) into a one party socialist state.

This year's Independence Day celebration was on the theme, «Building a Better and Prosperous Ghana through patriotism and National Unity».

The first minister based his assumptions on a Scottish government paper released on Tuesday, which sets out the Scottish National party's administration for the oil industry if it secures independence.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) will publish a white paper on a referendum for Scottish independence within two weeks, party sources have confirmed.

Scottish first minister Alex Salmond is set to spark a «national conversation» on Scottish independence.

Perry also spoke about how the closeness of the Hurley vote mirrored a close partisanship on the national and state fronts, as well as a tight Independence Party primary that he won against Kellogg with a 15 - 9 vote on September 15.

Imposing powers on Scotland would be unprecedented and fuel Sturgeon's demands for a second independence referendum, potentially providing the Scottish National party with a further justification for staging one.

To mark Brunei's National Day, which celebrates the country's independence, Captain Sharifah Czarena Surainy, Senior First Officer Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem and Senior First Officer Sariana Nordin flew flight BI081 to the Middle Eastern country on 23 February.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are hosting a debate in the National Assembly on Wednesday calling on the Welsh Government to make representations to the UK Government on the importance of maintaining the editorial, managerial and operational independence of S4C and the need for a sustainable funding basis to protect the future of Welsh - language broadcasting.

Mount Vernon — The Grand Council of Guardians, National Latino Officers of America and the Westchester Latino Officers Association, announced their endorsement for MV Independence Party candidates, Lyndon Williams (County Legislator — F5), Andre Wallace (MV City Council — F9) and Janice Duarte (MV City Council — F8), Saturday on the steps of City Hall.

She submitted them to Frank MacKay, chairman of the Suffolk County, New York State, and National Independence Parties, on July 11, she said.

Today The Scottish National Party launches the campaign for a «yes» vote in the referendum on independence

On this principle rests the independence of Conservative MPs, who are free to be representatives of their constituents and of the national interest, rather than mere party delegates in Parliament.

The Scottish National party needs to get a grip on the country's finances before it throws itself into another independence referendum

If you were perusing opportunities on job boards recently, you may have noticed a somewhat unusual listing: a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Intramural Research (OIR) ad for recent doctorate recipients interested in partnering with an intramural research institute to apply for the NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA), an extramural program we have written about in the past.

Bridges to Independence, a study published by the National Academies in 2005, bemoaned the «very limited data on this contingent.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has modified some of its postdoctoral fellowship programs to foster a greater emphasis on mentoring, training, and independence.

This was a major theme of the recent second COSEPUP convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, and it will be very much on the agenda for a June 16 meeting at the National Academies, on fostering the independence of new investigators.

Or is the ornery independence of the Texas grid a telling example of how regional differences confront the search for national policies on energy?

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Jeffrey D. Rudolf, a postdoctoral researcher on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has been awarded a Pathway to Independence Award (K99 / R00), a highly competitive career transition grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

In the forty - three volumes there was a thread: the United States had consistently professed support for a unified, independent Vietnam but just as consistently aided France in opposing Vietnamese independence, sabotaged the Geneva agreement for national elections, and so on.

Based on the novel that has become the de-facto national book of Azerbaijan and littered with historical figures that led the country's independence movement, this is a story that should be ripe with political and social comments for a tumultuous world today.

In doing so, he involves National Archives employee Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), and soon she is off on an adventure with Gates and Poole as they work to protect the Declaration of Independence and follow a series of puzzles which may lead to an enormous treasure.

Remap, a national charity that helps disabled people achieve greater independence and quality of life, will be integrating with Middlesex Cricket in the KidZania Stadium on 20 - 22 June, looking at blind cricket and the engineerable solutions that need to be created in order to play cricket blind.

Also, several of the resource and institutional variables, such as the school's decision - making responsibility and the existence of national examinations, are measured at the school or country level, further decreasing the independence of individual observations and reducing the number of independent observations on these variables.

On a national scale, educators in more than 15 school districts have successfully declared their independence from the state and national unions» control of their local association.

So on July 4, when most Americans were celebrating our independence from tyrants, delegates at the annual National Education Association convention in Denver passed a business item calling for U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to resign.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.