Sentences with phrase «political independence of»

The political independence of OERI needs to be safeguarded.

Last week former Met police commissioner Lord Imbert - a man who knows a thing or two about policing - wrote a letter to The Times condemning the proposed new scheme on the grounds that it would undermine the crucial political independence of the police.

The principle of non-intervention further says that no state should interfere in the political independence of another state.

Following Andrew Rawnsley's resignation today from PoliticsHome, we also feel that the decision to sell a majority stake in PoliticsHome to Michael Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, will not ensure the continuing political independence of the website.

All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

«It can not be force used against the territorial integrity or political independence of another State because the actor State is merely occupying its own territory.»

Jennings relied on the UN Charter definition of aggression as force used against the territorial integrity or political independence of a state.

Despite his choice, Vladimir was determined to assert his political independence of Constantinople.

This could best be accomplished, it was thought, by firmly establishing the political independence of central banks and by setting inflation targets in order to control expectations.

Not exact matches

Political instability in Spain continued with hundreds of thousands of protesters gathering in Catalonia's capital Barcelona over the weekend to protest against a resurgent independence movement that has been gathering steam in recent days.

But given the looming political uncertainty of Catalonia's push for independence, will this last?

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.

This is part of the long - running worry that the new monetary policy activism inspired by the financial crisis threatens central banks» political independence.

Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including George Osborne's speech on Scottish independence, all three main UK parties ruling out a currency union with an independent Scotland, and reaction

This is not full independence — the Minister of Finance has the legal authority to override the Bank in extreme circumstances — but it's been enough so that when the Governor of the Bank of Canada speaks, people know that there are no unspoken partisan political considerations through which his message should be filtered.

Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

A high degree of independence and insulation from day - to - day political pressures is important for a central bank.

Central bank independence, or monetary policy autonomy refers to a central bank's ability to conduct monetary policy without political interference, that monetary policy decisions are made purely based on economic and financial conditions to achieve publicly - stated objective (s) of a central bank.

By moving beyond legal reasoning to resolving questions of moral and political values, the Court loses the characteristics of impartiality and independence from politics that are fundamental to its legitimacy.

According to this subtle blend of political doctrine and poetic vision, the function of the French state is to maintain in unity, independence, and prosperity a pre-existing nation with definite features.

In other words, mainstream political science has insisted upon the logical independence of fact and value, such that only propositions about facts can be properly called true or false, and the study of political facts is «value - neutral» or «value - free.»

World Vision subscribes to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality and therefore rejects any involvement in any political, military or terrorist activities and maintains its independence as a humanitarian aid agency committed to serving the poor, especially children.

This vast region — practically the entire southern hemisphere — gained its political independence and set out in pursuit of «development»: the industrialization, technology and affluence of the First and Second worlds.

Since Islam does not make a distinction between the secular and the religious, and since a large part of the Muslim world has but recently attained political independence and is now playing a significant role in world affairs, this re-examination of Islamic law is all the more urgently needed.

Again and again German priests and monks insisted that missions among the Slays on their eastern borders must be conducted by them, and opposed the use of translations of the sacred books and the liturgy into Slavonic, presumably because it would encourage Slavic political and ecclesiastical independence of their rule.

The people of the nations that have newly won independence from imperial control are exhilarated by the prospect of a brighter future in the political firmament, and peoples whose resources have long been exploited for the enrichment of others now see their own prospects for material improvement happier than ever before.

If they prove themselves worthy of public confidence by maintaining high standards of competence, if through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisted.

The principles of academic freedom and of relative independence for education within the political structure do not exclude or excuse those who teach from active participation in political life.

But first we may note that the very fact that the temple was chosen as the stage for this demonstration made it clear at once that his aims, though he had been acclaimed as a king, were not political; it was the worship of God, not the independence of the Jewish state, that he was concerned with.

Indian Secularism emerged as a basic political ideology in the course of the Indian national struggle for independence.

All of us in our varied ministries tend to be awed by the structures and potency of the establishment of Baal, even though we know, somewhere down there in the timid, secret resources of faith, that all the stuff of Baal doesn't make God — power, technological sophistication, machismo, sex, political, military, and economic domination, energy independence (ha!).

Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism by Peter C. Myers University Press of Kansas, 265 pages, $ 34.95 As predictably as the calendar pages turn, each time I taught American political thought, whenever we got to the Declaration of Independence, some student would report....

The religious dimension was not ostensibly very evident save for inferred loyalties from the intervention of the Orange Order and from a group of independence supporters advertising their faith to encourage fellow Catholics to join their political cause.

Allen offers the case that the Declaration of Independence is a syllogism for political equality, rather than a manifesto of unlinked assertions.

The issue of independence has shaken the political establishment and the rise of the UK Independence Party promises further radical independence has shaken the political establishment and the rise of the UK Independence Party promises further radical Independence Party promises further radical realignment.

As should be our commitment to the political principle articulated in the Declaration of Independence: «To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.»

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

Person recounts, for instance, the feud between Kirk and political theorist Harry Jaffa over the character of the American founding and the political import of the Declaration of Independence.

The Maccabean Revolt, under the leadership of Mattathias» sons, led ultimately even to an uneasy political independence which was not brought to a conclusive end until Rome annexed Palestine in 63 B.C.

As events at this summer's Republican National Convention in San Diego show, the putative alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party offers little solution; and the truth is that grave dangers exist regardless when the independence of a religious mission is married to a particular political party's agenda.

But in the democratic world that would have led to more compromise by the dominant power, eg England's support of the Scottish Assembly, the USA's recognition of some Native American «reservation» independence, or Canada's political support of French language.

(Rabbi) Mayer Schiller Monsey, NY... Our moral order and political system which the judiciary is busily undermining are the fruit of «the laws of nature and of nature's God,» the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

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.

But they have altered the fundamental fact that the economic system of late industrial America can not be reconciled with the fundamental American ideology of economic independence as the basis of political order.

The Declaration of Independence points to the sovereignty of God over the collective political society itself when it refers in its opening lines to «the laws of nature and of nature's God» that stand above and judge the laws of men.

Nicaragua's strategy of nonalignment and mixed economy is based on a belief that greater independence is possible to the degree that Nicaragua is able to diversify its economic and political relationships.

The liberal regime never repudiated the civil religion that was already inherent in the Declaration of Independence and indeed kept it alive in our political life even though the Constitution was silent about it.

When these countries attained political independence in the 50s and 60s, the whole question of the path of development open to them came into question.

Christians must feel a deep sense of shame that many of the peoples of the East have begun to feel secure only after they have won their political independence.