Sentences with phrase «taken since independence»

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It took an estimated 20 minutes to complete, but for Shin, a graduate student at Yonsei University who has been quadriplegic since birth, it was a step toward greater independence.

Since some might wonder, I'll point out that I'm not technically a professional journalist myself — I'm a professor who dabbles at blogging — but I take my independence seriously, and I assure you that the first time anyone in management at Rogers Media (owner of Canadian Business) tries to tell me what to write in this space, that will be the very last day I write for them.

Nationalism in Egypt has taken an unprecedented turn since the people won their independence.

And so, during the half - century since the Second World War, two global changes were taking place simultaneously: power was shifting from the European nations to the United States; and the third - world nations were asserting their political independence.

«Since taking office in 2015, John Katko has demonstrated that he is the independent, forward - thinking leader the people of Central New York deserve,» said Frank MacKay, Chairman of the New York State Independence Party.

Ghana, as a sovereign state is proud of its freedom and justice it had endured since Independence, and should be sensitive enough especially when taking measures for such a threatening negotiation.

(Spitzer took some heat for this, since he was more than willing to run on the Independence line when he won the AG's race in 2002, even though Fulani was still a force within the party).

Angus has edited the Today programme since 2013, a period that's taken in the Scottish independence referendum, last year's general election and the EU referendum.

The priorities enumerated in the document are a clear indication of the type of independence that Johnson has promised since taking office, with a focus on «strengthening the social safety net, fighting for the middle class and handling taxpayers» money responsibly,» as Johnson put it at a news conference at City Hall.

After its construction, it was named the Golden Jubilee House when Ghana was celebrating 50 years since independence, until the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under the late President John Evans Atta - Mills, took over governance in 2009.

Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long -LSB-...]

«Those schools that are sponsored by academies, you can see the improvement in their results since they were taken over and given that extra independence and that extra assistance.»

She had been living alone since being widowed and though she struggled financially and had to take a convenient job to retain her independence she was shown to be a woman who would not easily succumb to the traditional place of a woman.

Since the reports are numbered, the amount of time it took to reach financial independence through dividend investing will be documented.

Since philosophical cohesion is a prerequisite to effectuating a structure by which partners will agree to be bound, great care must be taken to: (1) determine what the partners want lawyer management to be / not to be, i.e., strong leadership, consensus builders, visionaries, functional managers, etc.; and (2) engage in extensive discussion about the partners» respective expectations for individual involvement in decision - making in defined areas, paying particular attention to those areas likely to challenge the natural independence of lawyers who have already successfully achieved partnership.