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"To be resilient is to be independent and to be independent you need to have control of your own resources," said Makdissi.
They abandoned their 2016-vintage promises to be independent of Trump and hold him accountable, and Trump betrayed his 2016-vintage promises to be independent and check the GOP's plutocratic instincts.
Cats may be independent, but they still need our help.
Why didn't they want to get jobs and be independent?
Mike raised Lily to be independent, and she will be.
Four of the company's six directors will now be independent.
And can he really be independent of the White House?
I wanted to be independent at a very young age.
We can be independent, earn the respect of the community.
Under Swiss law, the foundation is supposed to be independent.
First, teach them to be independent and decent human beings.
And be independent in that way as you've so successfully done?
Still, some have questioned whether the Fed really should be independent.
FOX NEWS OPINION Judge Andrew Napolitano: Can the FBI be independent?
And it has to be independent from cultural intricacies and differences.
To be credible, the tribunal must be independent and tough-minded.
If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.
Jupiter may be independent, but in Scorpio, he plays for keeps!
Let me say I personally believe the Fed should be independent.
Experts say police shooting investigations should be independent to ensure objectivity.
I just wanted to be independent and never rely on anybody.
Crucially, the bureau was designed to be independent from political influence.
"Over all, the judges are trying to be independent," Suchanow said.
Any ELN talks would be independent of those with the FARC.
"The message is that they can't be independent," Professor Ying said.
Well, what she's trying to be independent of is her party.
"There are people that want to be independent contractors," says Zaino.
"Law enforcement shld NOT be independent of constitutional oversight," Grassley tweeted.
Simultaneously, artist's work should not be independent of who they are.
And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
So it's not just me who can't afford to be independent.
Could they really be expected to be independent in a year?
Bless they are happy and culture them, be independent by themselves.
The data has to be independent data that justifies the position.
That wasn't a bad thing—we needed more money to be independent.
We are going to be independent, like we're in our own office.
The most blatant is its control of institutions that should be independent.
Our three branches of government are supposed to be independent and separate.
The question was, perhaps inevitably, to be, or not to be, independent.
The call angered China, which does not consider Taiwan to be independent.
They can't be independent, and they need approval from their male guardian.
Having our babies grow up to be independent takes a long time.
The committee would be "independent" but could consist of Facebook board members.
Mr. Corbyn said that any investigation should be "independent" of government officials.
Meanwhile, operations against ISIS would be "independent, but synchronized," the proposal says.
It said the majority of directors on future boards should be independent.
" Instead of seeking credit, Fenelon's family repeatedly urged him to be "independent.
"I want them to be free, to be independent people," Sukur said.
They said he was too close to Mr. Trump to be independent.
The judge assured the senators he would be independent of the governor.
To stay in office, he must show he can be independent-minded.
Because she's a woman reporter in the '70s, she appears to be independent.
She got to hang around with her brain tumor group and be independent.
Vanacker: To be independent of crude oil, I would not make that promise.
The Federal Reserve was created by Congress to be independent of political influence.
He told WREG he would ensure the investigation would be independent and unbiased.
And so, that generally leads us to being — and wanting to be — independent.
DIMON: I AM – I WANT – I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT OF MIND.
The FBI is strong and the FBI is and always will be independent.
Q: Does this kind of charity discourage people from trying to be independent?
One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent.
One group, Demosisto, wants a referendum on whether Hong Kong should be independent.
The CFPB was designed to be "independent," unlike most other standard government agencies.
Softbank will get two and four will be independent, including an independent chairperson.
Figure out where you can be independent and what you need help on.
We are empowering them with living skills so that they can be independent.
The question is whether the Supreme Court can still be independent and nonpartisan.
"A newspaper that can't be independent," she said, "is not a good newspaper."
"I liked the message that it's O.K. to be independent," one woman said.
But the FEC has done little to require that super PACs be independent.
He wants to make sure people can be independent and on their own.
"Law enforcement shld NOT be independent of constitutional oversight," Grassley tweeted last month.
Kiki was the girl who I wanted to be. Independent. Strong. Hardworking. pic.twitter.
They are supposed to be independent, usually either judges or highly respected attorneys.
One such criterion is that a majority of the board directors be independent — i.e.
There have been so many hard things: learning to be independent and a leader.
He said the bank should be independent but political opinions about it were legitimate.
They imagine themselves to be independent, not beholden to one party or the other.
Zuckerberg said the board needed to be independent but also supportive of Facebook's principles.
"It was really difficult to be independent when he went grocery shopping," Steenhout said.
Its team will join Certify and the Abacus product will continue to be independent.
"FBI directors are supposed to be independent," Ryan said of the Trump-Comey interactions.
I've raised them to be independent so no boy tells them what to do.
We just wanted Duck-hee to be independent and live as a normal person.
"The Justice Department is supposed to be independent of the White House," Lee said.
As department stores' troubles have grown, brands' urge to be independent has likewise fortified.
"Testing will be independent whether this is in place or not," Mr. Bach said.
The new hires would be independent contractors, not employees that are eligible for benefits.
Travel teaches you to be independent, make decisions and learn how to get by.
Lloyds is paying for the review but has said its conclusions will be independent.
My parents had a few rules that allowed us to be independent as kids.
Mr. Sessions said he would be independent and would stand up to his boss.
"The committee can't be independent as long as she is a member," he said.
This will all be independent of any objective evidence of tangible improvements for Americans.
Two CEOs will reportedly be independent managers of the company's telecommunications and media businesses.
Rosselló reiterated on Thursday that the death toll review will be independent of politics.
Maffick may technically be independent, but their tone certainly matches the broader Kremlin family.
Skadden produced a report -- intended to be independent -- that said the process was legal.
All of these factors were found to be independent risk factors for dementia onset.
"My parents really wanted us to be independent and work for ourselves," says Adina.
America and the citizens who live within the country are known to be independent.
"Obviously, the desire of every parent is to see their child be independent," she said.
The Fed was designed to be independent in order to resist being swayed by politics.
So we wanted to produce something that would be independent from that kind of focus.
"It's a Swiss thing, we like to be independent and informal," says Ms Von Walterskirchen.
And now, they want another say in whether they can be independent, he told CNBC.
These eruptions are fascinating to astronomers, but they are typically thought to be independent events.
I would still be independent, own my content, and make all of the editorial decisions.
He worked really hard to be independent and developed a wonderful career on his own.
The governor promised the commission would be independent, free to chase any leads it found.
It also said that there needed to be independent authorisation for access to communications data.
They have to be independent and not prescribe to any of this gendered bullshit, i.
We say it's time to take matters into our own hands — be independent, you know?
""I'm more than happy for Scotland to be independent if that's what the people want.
"The key may well be independent voters," said Peter A. Brown, the poll's assistant director.
Of the 1003 nominees, three will represent the associations and the rest will be independent.
"The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent, so that does concern me," Collins said.
"The Federal Reserve is set up to be independent of the presidency," Mr. Shelby said.
No. I was ... The only thing is I wanted them to be independent. Mm-hmm.
Our daughters will grow up understanding that they can be strong, they can be independent.
I wanted to find my place in the world, and be independent, useful, and good.
He had explained to the President how important it was that the F.B.I. be independent.
"Then they can work for themselves, be independent and still make a living," she said.
"You'll never understand how important it is to get around and be independent," Drummer says.
The Fed and its policies are intended to be independent of politics, which upset Trump.
Q. Owners used to be independent contractors and you guys ruled somewhat with an iron fist.
Sports Direct said on Friday it did not consider Goals Soccer Centres' advisers to be independent.
Marriage is a great institution, but I think that it's important for women to be independent.
The central bank, which should be independent and technocratic, defers to a leader with crackpot views.
He wanted her to be independent and to make a better life for herself, she said.
LAGARDE: YOU KNOW, AROUND THE WORLD, WE THINK IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT CENTRAL BANKS BE INDEPENDENT.
WADA needs money, and to be independent of the sports officials who currently call the shots.
It called for Europe-wide coordination on security specifications, which would be independent of equipment manufacturers.
It fears that the tribunal, whose composition has yet to be agreed, may not be independent.
However, the National Election Committee, which is supposed to be independent, has supported Hun Sen's practices.
Sessions asked her, 'Do you think you can be independent of the president who appointed you?
The charter's secretariat will be hosted by the OPEC secretariat in Vienna but will be independent.
"There's been a tremendous backlash against the attorney generals who attempt to be independent," he said.
You're all about your relationships today, Aries, but you're also feeling the itch to be independent.
Many want to be independent, but life has a funny way of getting in the way.
"If this is true, how can we possibly conclude this nominee will be independent?" she asked.
This process makes it difficult for the role to be independent of the P5's influence.
"Finding — and keeping — those jobs forced me to be independent and responsible and accountable," he said.
Under Olympic rules, the Cuban baseball federation is required to be independent of the central government.
Could she be independent of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who helped her win election as speaker?
Prosecutors said Mr. Shao managed several Southern California businesses that purported to be independent aluminum importers.
Although the college is supposed to be independent, Mr. DiVincenzo appoints many of the board members.
It is unusual for presidents to openly criticize Fed chairs, who are supposed to be independent.
You have to be independent, you have to always push and fight for what you want.
"We need to teach our children to work and go out and be independent," he said.
They have to juggle making new friends, taking rigorous classes and learning how to be independent.
Training should be: Investigations must be independent, thorough and fair Legislatures must take harassment allegations seriously.
And the third important decision that we took was we want to be independent from Google.
And that a strong nation, like a strong person, helps others to rise up and be independent.
We're running out of mental space where we can be independent of our role in the economy.
We're all trying to be independent, strong women and on the side, we love fashion — we're girls.
For example, says Englar-Carlson, men are expected to be independent, and that's generally a good thing.
"Wenwen has learnt to be independent since she was two-and-a-half years old," Pan said.
Her mother, Celia, was a strong believer in education and encouraged Ginsburg to be independent and studious.
These are not separatists — they have already voted to be independent and Kiev is not their government.
Both have said the commission they're proposing would be independent and modeled after the 9/11 Commission.
But the majority have failed to be independent of the stock market, which was their original purpose.
"More and more people want to be independent of the power companies and rising prices," he says.
Be independent and hold your own hand as you power through responsibilities left on the back-burner.
We need to reduce regulations and expand options for people who want to be independent of government.
People with disabilities just want a chance to be independent, taxpaying, productive members of society, said Dinerstein.
His presence reveals a lot, since the court is supposed to be independent of the executive branch.
Such a contractor should be independent of any particular stakeholder interests and unburdened by conflicts of interest.
I worked for the BBC, which has to be independent and not pushed by any one faction.
However, religion in China must be independent of outside influence and organized within the country, he said.
Ms. James's rivals repeatedly attacked her relationship with Mr. Cuomo and questioned her ability to be independent.
Every time you have chosen to stay dependent, you have made a decision not to be independent.
I went to camp for four years and learned how to look after myself and be independent.
They're trying to be independent so that they won't have to keep being supported by their people.
The justices included two Democrats, two Republicans, and Justice David Davis, who was regarded to be independent.
"Caught in the middle are people who are and who want to be independent contractors," Estlund said.
It is important for prosecutors to be independent of politics, but prosecutors are not above the law.
And boards of directors, half of whose members must be independent, take their legally established responsibilities seriously.
A study from Intuit predicted that 40 percent of American workers would be independent contractors by 2020.
Schuette pledged the investigation would be independent and said an ethics lawyer would watch out for conflicts.
Europe needs new "financial instruments allowing it to be independent from the United States", Le Maire said.
People with disabilities just want a chance to be independent, taxpaying, productive members of society, says Dinerstein.
The participants in the dispute would each appoint a member and the third member would be independent.
The job reduction efforts in GE's units appear to be independent of those divestitures, the sources said.
But both men would be seen as highly political nominees for an agency designed to be independent.
He will have up to four representatives in En+'s board, where eight more directors will be independent.
Tesla considers all of its board members accept for Musk and his brother, Kimbal, to be independent directors.
With this change, 8 of 9 brixmor directors will be independent Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
I had taught him all his life to be independent and curious and to explore on his own.
"We will be independent," Torra said in an interview at his 15th century regional government palace in Barcelona.
The chief statistician is also legally required to be independent: statistics tend not to be decided by committee.
Abby, who has yet to crawl, "is so eager to be independent" and "shows such effort," says Heather.
The bottom line: The only way to be "independent" of the oil market is to not use oil.
Historically, the main argument for central banks to be independent has been that without independence, inflation will return.
This shift will be triggered by another person, as they inspire you take the initiative to be independent.
Under Bolsonaro, the bank will be independent and follow targets by proposed economy minister Paulo Guedes, Lorenzoni added.
Why it matters: The FCC — and merger reviews generally — are supposed to be independent from the White House.
There also is value in having the ability to be independent from the grid, particularly during an outage.
"You start to feel comfortable and gain confidence that you will eventually get a job and be independent."
Like Surnah, her friend Evih wanted to be independent and to contribute to her family, her father said.
" I don't think that the only way to be independent is to say, "This is our last conversation.
"Giving them room to be independent makes for a more enjoyable trip for all of us," he said.
"I call on judges - don't let yourselves be frightened, be independent, be brave, we are strong," he said.
Empowering people with electricity "Everyone should have the option to be independent from the grid," Roig-Morris said.
"We try very, very hard to be independent and nonpartisan," he said at a news briefing in January.
"We hope, for the good of everyone involved, that the investigation will be independent and thorough," they continued.
"Media outlets should be independent and fair, and this decision proves that Bloomberg News is neither," McDaniel tweeted.
"Members of the privacy committee must be independent and will be appointed by an independent nominating committee," it writes.
Jourova said the role needed to be independent from U.S. authorities and empowered to seek information on concrete cases.
We need to learn to be independent individuals who can continue to grow — with or without our romantic partners.
But the promise of electronic music for me was that I could be independent, and not depend on orchestras.
What does it mean for a woman to be independent, even if she's happy as a mother and wife?
Some drivers say it is a great chance to be independent and earn extra cash on their own schedule.
More ambitious than typical free-trade zones, these would be independent jurisdictions with their own laws, courts and police.
Although the CAMP is supposed to be independent, Mr Rahn has "the strong impression that there is government interference".
Party atmosphere at polls Drumbeats about war fall on deaf ears in the capital of would-be independent Kurdistan.
Guinness World Records has not accepted this as there needs to be independent, reliable proof (apparently bodyguards don't count).
I can be independent, ride the bus, leave my apartment and shop daily and never have to drive again!
Edith Crawley was the divisive middle child, who preferred to be independent and find a career of her own.
"Are our opponents really saying that Canada cannot be independent because their largest trading partner is America?" he asked.
But I guess I was in a stage of really wanting to make my own decisions and be independent.
"I know that she wants to be independent, and she's also very good with money and frugal," Haas said.
We can be independent of our husbands," she said, invoking Mao Zedong, "trying to hold up half the sky.
They want to work, be independent, make money, and want sort of everything that the rest of us want.
"It's the way I was brought up, to be independent and look after myself," she told the Lowestoft Journal.
The investigation appears to be independent of special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference during the 2016 elections.
My judicial philosophy is straightforward: A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.
"My generation is getting lazier and lazier—I want to work here, earn money and be independent," she said.
"It's real struggle to be on your own in today's media landscape, to be independent and freelancing," she said.
"When folks get to the box for picking a party, most of them choose to be independent," Henderson said.
Mr. Dodik, who already declared the country's Serb autonomous region to be independent, seems only too happy to oblige.
"As adults, we want to be independent and drive our cars and not live with our parents," Schwartz said.
Many residents "feel like they have to be independent and protect their own lifestyles," said the mayor, Minoru Miyake.
The Japanese mission will be independent of any other nation's deployments in the area, the cabinet office said Friday.
" Reading from the letter, Ambassador Aspelund said "investigations into the killing [of Jamal Khashoggi] must be independent and transparent.
"It's better to be independent," Ms. Kaupa said, cooking outside her small home, where she raises chicken and pigs.
It is the third ban to be imposed on the organization, which wants Kashmir to be independent from India.
Since models are generally considered to be independent contractors, not employees, they lack protection against on-the-job sexual harassment.
It looks more like we're heading to a future where the Apple Watch will eventually be independent from the iPhone.
By insisting all apps are native, Apple may be hinting that the next watch could be independent of the iPhone.
It also says the companies funded groups that purported to be independent and these groups in turn promoted the misrepresentations.
Mrs Clinton promises hers would be independent of government and would choose what to fund "based on merit, not politics".
The material suggested that Indonesia's Papua province should be independent and mocked the nation's state ideology, Pancasila, according to Nurmantyo.
These two were the last firms in the West with even a nominal claim to be independent makers of airliners.
Similarly to other gig economy workers, Mechanical Turk workers are considered to be independent contractors and not employees of Amazon.
Boeing reiterated on Wednesday that the money distributed through the fund would be independent from the outcome of any lawsuits.
" The guide dogs, says Milan, help give disabled vets "a normal life" so they "feel like they can be independent.
By bashing a government official who is supposed to be independent, Trump confirmed fears that he's an authoritarian at heart.
Though the Fed is supposed to be independent of politics, its decisions affect everyone, especially vulnerable populations who need support.
Interestingly, the other beneficiary of the "electability" frame, for now, seems to be independent senator and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
California has deemed at least two Uber drivers eligible for jobless benefits, but has found others to be independent contractors.
"They have this desire to travel and explore and to be independent like I did at their age," Jaques says.
"There's no 9-to-5 with a handicapped person: They want to go to work, they want to be independent."
Others, like whether it's more important for children to be "independent" or to have "respect for elders," are more subtle.
The agency is loathed by Republicans because its authority is intended to be independent of the White House and Congress.
Others, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, reiterated that the bureau was meant to be independent from political influence.
I feel that students need to be independent in their work in order to express themselves and their own personality.
Where, they ask, does it—and fellow tech giants—derive the legitimacy to be independent actors on the international stage?
Also, there was consensus that if the board was really to be independent, Facebook would not be selecting its members.
The government has enforced the law, under the Spanish Constitution, and there is no way for Catalonia to be independent.
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Wray, Trump's nominee for FBI director, defends the Russia probe and vows to be independent.
Uber, thumbing its nose at lawmakers, said that it would continue its current model of having drivers be independent contractors.
In general, presidents avoid commenting on decisions made by the Fed, which is designed to be independent of political interference.
"She was at that age where was just learning how to be independent, and now she's dependent again," Palacios said.
The attorney general is supposed to be independent and stand above politics, but Barr looks weak and sycophantic to Trump.
This is like the case: "The FBI will always be independent," Comey asserted during the beginning of his testimony Thursday.
"We welcome Attorney General Barr's belated acknowledgment that the DOJ's law enforcement decisions must be independent of politics," they wrote.
His repeated, public threats against AT&T loom over his administration's regulatory review — an investigation that's supposed to be independent.
Kingsnorth estimates the world will need 75,000 tonnes of rare earths per year to be independent of China by 2025.
Supervised by the provincially-operated coroner's office, the inquest will be independent from the provincial and municipal police services, Edwards said.
Wikipedia graphic / Puerto Rico government data The big problem with this idea is that Puerto Ricans don't want to be independent.
He will have up to four representatives in En+'s new board of directors, where eight more directors will be independent.
DIY has taught us to be independent, to be responsible, and to go out and do the things that we like.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be independent, it&aposs not supposed to be supreme of all the branches of government.
WADA this week said it was crucial that Kenya's anti-doping body be independent and function properly as soon as possible.
Prior to that time there was little thought that the institution would be independent from the demands of the Treasury Department.
"Supplementing them while they get their feet on the ground is a great gift but the goal is to be independent."
"Humanitarian action needs to be independent of political, military or other objectives," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.
As I told the Committee during my hearing, a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political pressure.
At least, I thought I would be independent, not get married and have kids, but it changed when I got older.
" Former director James Comey also defended the agency, tweeting his own past remark: "The FBI is, and always will be, independent.
His life was my life and now I've had to let him go a little bit and let him be independent.
The 2 nations certainly would like to be independent, but today neither one's vast tech economy can function without the other.
Nuclear fight Democrats consistently tried to tie Gorsuch to Trump, suggesting he won't be independent from the President who nominated him.
And someone that always thought of how best to be independent and protect the institution and country he worked for first.
According to the filing on Thursday night, three board members will be independent and nine will be appointed by controlling shareholders.
However, the entrepreneur soon realized that for Apoll01 to be successful, it would have to be independent from the university system.
More importantly, the point of a special counsel is to be independent of the political offices of the Department of Justice.
I happen to believe, in my heart of hearts, you can't be independent and nobody's going to BELIEVE that you're independent.
The whole process would be independent of the current income tax system and likely run on a different schedule, Mann said.
Democrats praised Trump's nominee, saying they believed he could be independent of the president and any attempts to politicize the bureau.
Of course it would be independent, Mr. Pound wrote in a letter the month before the agency was established in Switzerland.
The position was previously held by a deputy national security advisor but will be independent of that group in Trump's administration.
This creates a tension where we have to weigh our emotional desires with our identity and our need to be independent.
But a similar tactic is still used by politicians and political groups to create partisan sites that appear to be independent.
"Of course we need to run the business as though we're going to be independent, and we're planning accordingly," Woodman said.
That was lonely, but it shapes my frustrations with my own party, my willingness to be independent of my own party.
We trust judges to be independent of the influence of good friends, of parents, of spouses, and decide on the law.
It has played an important role in Democratic politics, even as it is legally required to be independent from the party.
With this retrospective, MoMA asks whether the personal and the political can ever be independent in screen portrayals of black relationships.
To emphasize that prosecutions should be independent of politics, criminal charges are brought in the queen's name rather than the government's.
"We teach our students to be independent thinkers," Janet Conner-Knox, who handles public relations for Wilson Preparatory Academy, told CNN.
Two years earlier he'd moved things along when he met with Palestine to try establish a way Palestine could be independent.
While executive board members are meant to be independent of their country of origin, they are put forward by national governments.
Such an official creates a company in the relative's name which appears to be independent but is controlled by the official.
" And, he added, "they may play to the stereotype of trusting boys to be independent and able to care for themselves.
"We want the I.O.C. to be independent, nothing to do with politics," Gerhard Heiberg, a longtime I.O.C. member from Norway, said.
And the big twist is that the board will be independent of Facebook — funded by it, but accountable only to itself.
As I told the Committee during my hearing, a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political pressure.
And he has done little to assure ordinary citizens that their institutions — the police, the judiciary, the press — can be independent.
"Undeniably, the CFPB was intended to be independent, but it is part of the executive branch," Kelly, a Trump appointee, said.
Kladov said Russia's industry would continue to follow international standards on regulation and aircraft safety, but would strive to be independent commercially.
But I knew I wanted to move to another city, be independent, and to make as much cash as fast as possible.
"I wanted to give women the power to be independent and have control of their daily lives," Wadstrom said in an interview.
Sobotka has said any new minister must be independent enough from Babis to allow for an impartial probe of the tax issue.
I don't want her to leave my house and not have training on what it is to feel like to be independent.
Another vote in 2014 asked whether voters wanted Catalonia to become a state and if they wanted that state to be independent.
"Even kids who have grown up with families and have gone to college — very few can be independent at 21," Feild says.
Some companies, recognizing that some people don't want to be independent contractors, have already made the switch from 1099 to W-2.
According to a securities filing on Thursday night, three board members will be independent and nine will be appointed by controlling shareholders.
"I forced myself to walk again, to do things on my own and be independent to look after my brothers," she said.
"She had the ambition to be independent, to provide for her kids and family, no matter what it took," her sister wrote.
But he has also been tough on institutions like the judiciary and congress, which are supposed to be independent of the presidency.
" But he added: "You can rest assured as long as I have anything to do with this, the foundation will be independent.
Almost all of the very many economists I know think that the Fed, a very large employer of economists, should be independent.
Mulvaney has hired political aides to help reshape the agency that Democrats designed to be independent of White House and congressional influence.
Since 1864, national policy has dictated that bank regulators be independent from the political process exemplified by the lobbyist-influenced appropriations process.
Truck drivers who own their own trucks and want to be independent must be made employees or find another line of work.
The junta appointed the election commission and has interfered with the work of what are supposed to be independent agencies and institutions.
While Libra is meant to be independent of Facebook, the social networking giant has clear plans for making money from the venture.
" But he added: "You can rest assured as long as I have anything to do with this, the foundation will be independent.
In January, the head of China's courts, Zhou Qiang, railed against any notion that judges should be independent of Communist Party control.
"Humanitarian aid needs to be independent of political, military, or other objectives," UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reportedly told press in New York.
The most certain way for international broadcasting to be independent of government control is for it to operate within the private sector.
While the couple have said they want to be independent financially, they also want to keep most of their splendid royal perks.
"The court is saying the head of this agency is supposed to be independent," said Paul Bland, executive director of Public Justice.
I wanted to make my own money and be independent but also keep the potential of being a mother and staying home.
Democrats say neither man is a serious choice for the central bank, which is supposed to be independent of the White House.
It paints a picture of the image the new administration wants to project, which might be independent, glamorous, aspirational, sparkly or multicultural.
Sidewalk Labs says the data trust it proposes would be independent, controlled by neither it nor the Canadian agency overseeing the new development.
Once we are multiplanetary the risk goes down tremendously—now there will be independent, self-sufficient groups of humans spread across vast distances.
Last time I was here I told this committee that a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political pressure.
Kornilov told the interviewer that the websites, being launched separately in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, would be independent portals steering clear of politics.
Instead, he gave her six phrases as a parting gift: self-esteem, self-respect, love yourself, be strong, be independent and be confident.
It will be independent of Facebook, though the social-media firm will supply lots of Libra users and could end up holding sway.
The strong pro-democracy result reportedly spooked Beijing, with multiple Chinese officials insisting afterward that Hong Kong could never be independent of China.
This riled COFINA holders who believe the board plans to side with GO creditors, and feared the COFINA agent would not be independent.
Should Smith be independent, like a boy, or was it her portion, as a girl, to wait for Jesus to take the wheel?
Yet NSF said Loans at Home would be independent and added it expects an agreement in principle to be reached with the CMA.
"Advanced sensors and camera capabilities will enhance the iPhone; eventually there could be independent hardware offerings, perhaps iGlass," UBS analyst Steven Milunovich said.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, the committee's chairman, said Barr's previous service as attorney general showed that he can be independent of the president.
The government's merger reviews, however, are supposed to be independent from political influence — and the potential for White House interference riled Minnesota Sen.
I brought my children up like my parents brought us up when we were young: to be independent, kind, honest, considerate and polite.
The company will also gain the right to appoint two members to Mosaic's board of directors, one of whom is to be independent.
It will shrink its board of directors to 15 from 21, and a majority of those directors must be independent from the organization.
It needs to be independent of the circles of malevolence and disorientation that the Democratic House and the president have drawn around them.
"We will be independent and fact based ... TheCityUK will play a very important part and we will be working with them," Hodson said.
Last time I was here, I told this committee that a federal judge must be independent not swayed by public or political pressure.
"Media outlets should be independent and fair, and this decision proves that Bloomberg News is neither," Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
My view is that we must be independent — a republic — but we have to reinvent democracy and all our social and political systems.
The first Democratic senator elected from Alabama in over 20 years, he must show he can be independent-minded to stay in office.
Countries where central banks are deemed not to be independent from political influence have seen a hit on their currencies — most recently in Turkey.
But Institutional Shareholder Services, a major proxy advisor firm for stock shareholders, considers only five of Tesla's nine directors to be independent, including Denholm.
The FAA does not conduct crash investigations, and its findings on the proposed fix for the 737 Max will be independent of the probes.
Its mission is two-fold, aiming to fight the stereotype that recycled means ugly and help women in Africa's last absolute monarchy be independent.
None of the groups or individuals identified in the proposals have been transparent about their funding and have often claimed to be independent voices.
Diamondback and rivals Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and Concho Resources will likely not be independent companies three to five years from now, he said.
The series has raised a lot of questions about what it means to be independent, self-made, and successful, and that's a worthy discussion.
Prior presidents have been less vocal in public about their disagreements with the path of monetary policy, thought to be independent of political pressure.
Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, aimed to assure senators on Tuesday that he would be independent on the bench.
Lyft cites a recent survey that says over 80 percent of its drivers prefer to be independent contractors because of the flexibility it affords.
But Democrats seized on the reported conversation as a violation of longstanding traditions holding that the FBI must be independent of the White House.
" Later, Comey said he explained "why it was so important that the FBI and the Department of Justice be independent of the White House.
She explains that her African American father came from the civil rights era and believed that it was important for them to be independent.
In a conversation with his wife earlier this year that was recorded for The Daily Caller, the justice said he strives to be independent.
The central bank system was designed to be independent of the administration so it could foster maximum employment and stable prices without political influence.
One encouraging finding from Schwab's survey is that young people want to be independent and are open to financial guidance — especially from their parents.
Everyone seems much happier this way, and we think it's a great way to help teach our kids to be independent and financially responsible.
"A new wider review must be independent and should examine oversights failure and the impact of policies on the culture of Home Office operations."
In reality, the main emotional allegiance is not to "Europe" but still to citizens' nation-state or region (or would-be independent nation-state).
The courts will be independent and more efficient than the existing system, according to a separate statement by Zoltan Kovacs, the Hungarian government spokesman.
Bachelet's spokesman Rupert Colville had no immediate comment, but activists said that any visit would have to be independent and credible with full access.
And while Kennedy's opinion predicted that outside money would be independent of the politicians that super PACs supported, the opposite has been the case.
"The Senate is going to want promises that this person will be independent of the White House and not be a toady," he said.
Democrats seized on her firing to say that Mr. Sessions is too close to the president to be independent or stand up to him.
In some areas I sense that China try to build on its capacity because they want to be independent from the global value chain.
Even though antitrust decisions are supposed to be independent of political influence, Mr. Trump didn't hesitate to weigh in when the deal was announced.
The last time I was here I told this committee that a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political pressure.
"That time will come, and when it does I have no doubt that the people of Scotland will choose to be independent," she said.
The second, which appears to be independent, reported that around 10 percent of patients could not have the tube safely placed in their bodies.
But they'd welcome anything that could help him function as independently as possible "because I think that's what he really wants, is to be independent."
"You can make some really good money and be able to support a family, and heck, even be independent if you're that kind of woman."
It would almost be a test to see if Republicans can truly be independent from Trump and still be successful in the current political environment.
But the ruling did not require that this reviewer be independent of the prison system, nor did it determine any criteria for the reviewer's qualifications.
Bandwidth is the first work in a trilogy, although each novel will be independent, set in the same universe but with different characters and themes.
Campaigns and party committees are not allowed to coordinate with allied outside groups that are supposed to be independent, such as super PACs and nonprofits.
"For its investigations to be credible, the commission must be independent and able to conduct its work in a transparent and impartial manner," Shamdasani said.
Wray's work is cut out for him: he has to convince the Senate that he'll be independent of Donald Trump, who nominated him last month.
The connection between poor health and being sedentary may be independent of the link connecting more physical activity with improved health, Young told Reuters Health.
"I want her to be independent — to be able to live in the realm of what she wants rather than what she needs," he says.
But the dual assignments have been challenged by shareholders who believe board chairmen should be independent of the company executives they are assigned to oversee.
"These are ... always provisions that cannot be independent of political developments," he said, adding that was why it always had to be monitored very closely.
So being ... I don't wanna give the wrong impression, however, that's just to make sure our listeners understand that I do try to be independent.
The human rights advocates said a CBSA oversight mechanism should be independent from political interference, external to the agency and equipped with adequate legal power.
But a new study in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology suggests that the effect of statins on infection may also be independent of diabetes.
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has long been embroiled in a debate over the status of its drivers: Should they be independent contractors or full-time employees?
The institution needs to be independent or the central bank could be politicized to either benefit or discredit the interests of the party in power.
Like other accountability offices, such as the Office of Accountability at the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, EXIM's office should be independent, transparent and accessible.
While podcasts can be independent pursuits, they may also be picked up by networks like Radiotopia, which shares resources like sales staff and grant money.
Richard Shelby of Alabama, a senior member of the Banking Committee who has raised concerns about whether Shelton would be independent from the White House.
As I told this Committee the last time I appeared before you, a federal judge must be independent, not swayed by public or political pressure.
By having someone else do the work for you, you are not learning how to be independent or how to take accountability for your actions.
But more important, we taught her to be independent and to value her self-worth, assuring her that she would always be special to us.
Even men who play traditional gender roles in their personal lives tend to want their daughters to be independent and high-achieving, research has found.
The agreement established that SQM board decisions and the company's operations would be independent of both parties, the two sides said in a joint statement.
"The U.S. president believes Germany dominates the European Union and wants Britain to be 'independent'," Riley-Smith and Hope noted, citing anonymous "well-placed" sources.
Tax department inquiries are designed to be independent of the governor's office, which isn't supposed to have any involvement in or knowledge of their proceedings.
Still, she speculated that the finding could be procedurally useful for the department if it later sought to deem Uber drivers to be independent contractors.
" On the subject of West's support for Trump, the Grammy-winning rapper tweeted, "Black people don't have to be democrats," and "Next President gon be independent.
In an election, the guesses don't tend to be independent but are guided by the conventional wisdom of newspapers, websites such as fivethirtyeight and opinion polls.
What they're saying: PBMs "don't need to be independent entities with their own profit margins ... that adds costs," former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said in 2017.
Clinton has denied soliciting support from a super PAC, and she has rejected the notion that those who take donations from Wall Street can't be independent.
Critics immediately questioned how the review could be independent if it was being conducted, in part, by current company executives (including one of its own lawyers).
Prosecutorial decisions are supposed to be independent of political considerations, so Trump's recent friendliness should not be controlling once the new attorney general is in office.
Men are also expected to be independent, in control, and powerful, which can make it hard for them to admit to an experience they didn't want.
The program lays out higher standards of transparency, internal audits and apolitical leadership, including a requirement that at least 30 percent of board members be independent.
Mr. Puigdemont may be an accidental leader, but he is a purposeful proponent that Catalonia — prosperous and distinct in culture, history and language — should be independent.
Sanders urged the Republicans in Congress to hold Trump "accountable for his actions" and said that next FBI director must be independent of the White House.
"His refusal to recuse himself from all potential safety matters involving the Takata airbag crisis raises serious questions about his ability to be independent," Nelson said.Sen.
So if the agency cannot be independent, it should be struck down in it entirety (or, at least, it should be prevented from bringing enforcement actions).
"If my community empowers itself, and learns to be independent and not be dependent on the government, we could change many things," Mr. Vega, 30, said.
Though it is not unprecedented, it is unusual for a president to try to influence the Fed, which is supposed to be independent of political influence.
History and logic argues that a small number of men in an insulated agency should not be independent in making decisions that impact the whole nation.
I will promise that there will be a review to make sure that there is no racism on this department and that it will be independent.
Those who were physically inactive at baseline were significantly less likely to be independent at that point, compared with those who were physically active at baseline.
Maybe her rages are experiments to make certain that she can trespass my will — that she can be independent — and that I will still be there.
Correction: An ACLU spokesperson has informed us that Laura Murphy is no longer with the civil liberties organization and her work with Facebook will be independent. [Axios]
It certainly sounds reasonable that a board -- and by extension its chair -- should be independent from the top management of the company to better assess things objectively.
The terrible twos, of course, refer to that period of time during which a child begins struggling between relying on their parents and wanting to be independent.
In particular, those who subscribed to the idea that men should be "playboys," have power over women, be independent, and be in control had worse mental health.
There are ways in which black women are socialized to be independent and take care of their own stuff, but also engage in extraordinary or excessive caregiving.
Wray said he'd be independent, would run the agency without outside influence, and would rather resign than comply with an order he felt was illegal or immoral.
It also proposed that the majority of directors, including the chairman of the board, be independent, outside directors and that the role of company chairman be abolished.
FIFA statutes dictate that members must remain neutral in politics and religion, avoid all forms of discrimination and be independent and avoid any form of political interference.
After all, judges don't — or shouldn't —wear blue or red jerseys, but only black robes, meaning they should be independent and focus solely on interpreting the law.
It sits just steps away from the boundary of the would-be independent state of Kurdistan that Iraqi Kurds are seeking following the independence referendum this week.
In Michigan, it owned or operated at least five stations—branded as CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox—that appeared to be independent and competing with one another.
I wanted the clues to be independent of the films and their subjects, but since many of the theme movies were biopics, I couldn't pull it off.
Evidence showed that Harper's aides effectively took control of the leadership of the Senate, which is supposed to be independent, and provided Conservative senators with scripted lines.
But she was telling young working-class girls: Get a job, turn it into a career, work really hard, date around, make something of yourself, be independent.
Bird says fleet managers, which may be independent entrepreneurs or local mom and pop bike rental shops, for example, can also collect and charge the scooters themselves.
Because Dunn was an only child, she says Joleen raised her to be independent, and had regular conversations with her about what would happen if Joleen died.
I knew from the beginning that I needed education and a job to be independent and the third thing that triggered me was having my own home.
Asked by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, if he believed either prospective nominee to the board would be independent, Mr. Powell declined to comment.
"The issue is, a charter revision commission should be independent, it should be a wide base of appointments from different entities of city government," Ms. Brewer said.
"When I started doing the project, the first thing that came to my mind is really helping more people be independent," MacNeil said in the announcement video.
Hensarling led House Republican efforts to investigate the CFPB, gut the agency's powers and impose congressional oversight over the regulator designed to be independent from lawmakers' whims.
Hopefully, this conclusion — that the CFPB must be independent — will help with legal challenges to the current, industry-co-opted and politically driven leadership to the agency.
"We can't rely on the infrastructure of today, so we have to… think about the opportunity to be independent of the grid whenever we can," she said.
Being a feminist used to mean supporting strong women, from all walks of life, who aren't afraid to be independent and live life on their own terms.
She also repeated the Fed's strong opposition to proposals that policymakers worry could give elected officials influence over what are supposed to be independent Fed interest rate decisions.
Respect, not just in terms of every aspect around my comfort and vulnerability and talked through and thought through, but I was also given space to be independent.
Now Gorsuch will have to field questions about Trump's views on the judiciary, and whether he can be independent from the man who appointed him to the bench.
" THE RULEBOOK: IT PAYS TO BE INDEPENDENT  "In the general course of human nature, A POWER OVER A MAN&aposs SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL.
In the eyes of its critics, the two-party system turned into a "partidocracy", capturing institutions from universities to public broadcasters and regulatory bodies that should be independent.
The unplanned coupling of systems originally meant to be independent has often been identified as a threat to resiliency ("Brittle power: energy strategy for national security", Lovins, 1982).
The new body, proposed by Mr. Fillon, would consist of the heads of government, with its own secretariat, and would be independent of the EU Commission in Brussels.
OBAMA: Well, I've made a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn't appear like I'm meddling in what are supposed to be independent processes for making these assessments.
Of course, not only Japan but also other countries such as South Korea and the countries of NATO will be facilitated to be independent in a good meaning.
During the Senate testimony, he repeatedly and convincingly affirmed his own independence and the ongoing need for judges to be independent from everything but the Constitution and law.
Before they split, Jolie and Pitt donated $8.4 million to the foundation in 2008, though Jolie also partners with organizations which help orphaned and abandoned children be independent.
Clinton also proposes to eliminate the type of super PACs, with their unlimited contributions and spending, that pretend to be independent but are custom tailored for individual candidates.
The ridesharing company considers its drivers to be independent contractors rather than employees, which implies that they do not receive benefits like insurance, health care and sick leave.
You need to make your own money and be good at your job so that you can be independent and leave your partner at any time you want.
But since Wilson-Raybould was also the attorney general, she had the final say over the country's prosecutorial arm, which is supposed to be independent of political influence.
These parties felt like the first time we could all be independent and say exactly what was on our minds: talking about the future, our problems, our parents.
At their second private meeting, the president told Mr. Comey it would be their last, since impartial justice requires an F.B.I. director to be independent of the president.
"I believe Mueller will be independent, he will be thorough and he will be fair," said Representative Elijah Cummings, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
The ECJ said on Wednesday that, for Poland's courts to be independent and impartial, they had to "exercise their functions wholly autonomously, shielded from external interventions or pressure".
He does not imagine that Hong Kong can be independent, noting that 50 years after the handover from Britain the promise of one country, two systems will expire.
And once the decision to move forward is made, the investigation must be independent, thorough, and fair:   Investigative decisions should not be in the hands of partisan officials.
"We're for central bank independence but we're also for cooperation," he said, referring to the need for central banks to be independent from government interference in setting monetary policy.
I think I've demonstrated throughout my career the ability to be independent, to not be afraid to express contrary views, and that's what I've told everybody here at Uber.
Some of these people have voted for Democrats in the past but have not been politically engaged, while others consider themselves to be independent and have supported both parties.
"The Chinese government is getting the message (from the US) -- 'You don't really care about human rights' -- which should be independent of other political and economic talks," she said.
I try to be independent; you want to be a centrist, but both parties tend to go so far to the base that they're not worried about the center.
Whatever his intentions, the Philippine president's decision regarding Diokno is seen by some analysts as another example of Duterte politicizing an institution that's supposed to be independent and neutral.
I've always had this entrepreneurial spirit, even when I was a kid — the desire to be independent, build my own house, drive my own car, own my own stuff.
In an interview with Reuters last month, Ince said Erdogan was driving the country "to the cliff", saying foreign relations had suffered and monetary policy needed to be independent.
Notably, DeepMind also does not specify whether or not the "experts" it here envisages being needed to audit its data centers/infrastructure would be independent of the company itself.
He thinks pharmacy benefit managers have some value in the drug pricing process, but "they don't need to be independent entities with their own profit margins...that adds costs."
Even as the lawyers condemned Mr. Barr on Sunday, they said they welcomed his rebuke of Mr. Trump and his assertions that law enforcement must be independent of politics.
Despite America's deep divisions, our political, intellectual, and media elites seem to agree on at least one thing: that the Department of Justice should be "independent" of the president.
But since Wilson-Raybould is also the attorney general, she also has the final say over the country's prosecutorial arm, which is supposed to be independent of political influence.
Having someone else perceive you as hardworking or smart doesn't necessarily contribute to a long-term sense of worth, nor does it help people be independent or have meaningful relationships.
One of the most unnerving consequences of Rajan's decision is the growing influence of government over monetary policy, an area meant to be independent from political pressure, according to strategists.
It's been a magic formula, knowing what we don't know and how to get past that to be independent thinkers, that has been the formula that has worked for us.
" When asked whether Trump understood why it was important for the Fed to be independent from political pressure, he replied, "This might be a good time for a no comment.
More to the point, can a supposed masterpiece — a cinematic experience deemed worthy of the year's greatest honor — really be independent of the person most centrally responsible for its realization?
Puigdemont, Clara Ponsati and Toni Comin called the ruling a "flagrant violation" of their rights and "proof of collusion between the judiciary, which should be independent, and certain political interests".
Uranus inspires you to be independent and rebellious, so you're going to feel like a bit of an outcast on Wednesday evening as the moon squares off with this planet.
FERC commissioners are expected to be independent and neutral on issues such as energy fuel sources in the matters they oversee, including interstate natural gas pipelines and bulk electricity markets.
Democrats emerged from the closed-door meeting signaling that they are not yet willing to walk away from the committee's investigation, but stressed that the probe has to be independent.
The device would be independent from Apple's iPhone or other mobile devices, with its own built-in display, OS (dubbed 'rOS' internally), and a new custom processor, per the report.
All judicial nominees -- especially for the nation's highest court -- face doubts that they are willing and able to be independent from the President who nominated them to this lifetime post.
Mr. Trump's query was an unusual and overtly political one for a discussion with a senior official in the Justice Department, which is supposed to be independent of political influence.
Safety experts say it is unusual for one of the parties to help fund an investigation, required by U.N. rules to be independent to ensure trust in any safety recommendations.
And their indifference — my folks didn't show up at baseball games, that sort of thing — gave me a fierce need to be independent, to not count on them for anything.
My mother and grandmother taught me to be independent and I owe my feminist education to them, because they told us that we could do whatever a boy could do.
"THE FBI is honest, the FBI is strong and the FBI is and always will be independent," declared James Comey, a former director of the agency, at a recent congressional testimony.
The way each side treats the women in their midst is also at odds: Patrice is shown to be independent and intelligent, in full control of her actions and her beliefs.
Yet the structure of the industry needs further reform; only 40% of the trustees (the people responsible for looking after investors' interests) are required to be independent of the fund manager.
"In fact, we found that survivors who were treated in more recent decades were more likely to be independent as adults than survivors who were treated in earlier decades," Brinkman added.
Like HCAN (and unlike the group that became Organizing for America), it should be independent of the White House but well organized and able to pressure wavering legislators and reward supporters.
Charlotte Hogg, who was named to sit on the BoE's most powerful policymaking committees this month, was challenged by lawmakers to show how she would be independent from established BoE thinking.
Our oil wealth creates the potential for the U.S. to be "independent of any need to import energy from the OPEC cartel or any nations hostile to our interests," Trump says.
"We got equity, not taxpayers' money, and we were given enough equity for us to be independent, which we are today, and we have to show profit," he was quoted saying.
It recommended that a majority of directors be independent and recommended that the role of company chairman should be abolished, while an independent, outside director should be chairman of the board.
But the real losers of this debacle may be independent booksellers, which once again are seeing Amazon reap the benefits of having a monopoly-like hold over the electronic books market.
A spokesman for Canadian Energy Minister Jim Carr described the delay of the review as unfortunate, but added it was crucial that the NEB showed itself to be independent and neutral.
First, a mother who, by her example, made reading a delight and counseled me constantly to "be independent," able to fend for myself, whatever fortune might have in store for me.
The remarks by the two politicians, who have argued that Hong Kong should be independent from China, were widely seen as acts of defiance — and catalysts for a renewed political crisis.
It is safe to say in every part of the country voters want to elect people who will be independent of Trump and who will stand up to him when necessary.
Clearly some countries, namely those that are not veto-wielding members of the Security Council, want a secretary general who can at least occasionally be independent of the Council's political pressures.
" Palin said she still wants to be in "some positions here to get that message out there, how important it is to be independent, get out there and work for yourself.
And Philip Morris recently launched the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, which, like the TIRC of 60 years ago, claims to care about health and be independent of Philip Morris.
The monitor needed to be independent, since officers were often reluctant to discipline each other thanks to a code of silence—sometimes called the the "Blue Wall"—and resistant police unions.
"The FBI is honest, the FBI is strong and the FBI is and always will be independent," Comey said to the members of Congress, media and observers assembled on Capitol Hill.
"Work with a major company is an important contract, and an established contractor isn't going to be independent," said Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should be independent and not under the influence of President Donald Trump in setting monetary policy, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday.
Trump also reportedly asked Rosenstein, who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, if he was on the president's "team," even though the investigation is supposed to be independent of presidential interference.
"Like any middle power, Kim is aiming to be independent of any great power — both China and America — and he is already a fair way towards that goal," Mr. White said.
But if so, he miscalculated, as Democrats rushed to condemn the move and demand that a special counsel be appointed to ensure that the Russia investigation be independent of the president.
The concept of IAC is we create companies, we get them to be of a sufficient size where they can be independent, and then we spin them off to our shareholders.
So the best solution has seemed to be independent redistricting commissions, which typically put the power to redistrict into the hands of a diverse group of citizens who are political outsiders.
" Christian Science practitioners are said to be "independent and self-employed individuals" who charge "modest fees" for their services, which include "prayer ... and its power to heal all forms of suffering.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said last month that the next Bank of England chief must be independent without commenting on whether the successful candidate had to be a Brexit supporter.
"When we do it again, I'll make sure I've got all the right people in the right places," said Brown, adding that the decision to continue would be independent of Alonso's future.
Some 48.7 percent of Catalans believe the Spanish region should be independent, according to the poll from Centre d'Estudis d'Opinio, up from 41.1 pct in June and the highest since December 2014.
"I've made a very deliberate effort to make sure that I don't look like I am meddling in what are supposed to be independent processes for making these assessments," he told NowThisNews.
However, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that Regency investors would reasonably expect members of the conflicts committee to be independent directors, without ties to the board of the buyer, Energy Transfer Partners.
The seven-member committee recommended a majority of directors be independent and that the role of company chairman should be abolished, while an independent, outside director should be chairman of the board.
Called the Protect App-Based Drivers & Services Act — funded by Uber, Lyft and DoorDash — the measure aims to ensure drivers and couriers can continue to be independent contractors with flexible work hours.
"Above all else, the 111th Congress wanted the CFPB to be independent: free, that is, from industry influence and the changing political tides that come with accountability to the President," she explained.
Mnuchin meets regularly with Powell and it's not unheard of for a Fed chair to meet with the President, though it's rare since the position is meant to be independent of politics.
And I feel I'm in a position in life where I can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences in the sense that I can truly be independent.
But an official regional survey published on Tuesday showed some 48.7 percent of Catalans believe the region should be independent, up from 41.1 pct in June and the highest since December 2014.
Professor McKee, who wrote an editorial in the BMJ that accompanies the study, said such groups often claim to be independent think tanks but refuse to disclose detailed information about their funding.
Undergraduates who are 24 or older, and all graduate students regardless of age, are considered to be "independent," meaning that their aid eligibility is calculated without regard to parental income and resources.
They are role models to many and I believe that they are teaching kids that they can be independent and that they can do anything even if someone tells them it's impossible.
Matthew T. Sanderson, a lawyer at Caplin & Drysdale and former general counsel to Senator Rand Paul's presidential campaign, said that, ideally, the transactions would be independent of the person selling the asset.
The conflict centered around the issue that an independent central bank would be run by bankers to the detriment of the nation and, therefore, the Fed, if created, should not be independent.
The United States and the European Union have suspended funding to the National Election Committee, which is meant to be independent, but is widely believed to be controlled by the ruling party.
The Fed was explicitly created to be independent of politics under the assumption that politicians would be too tempted to manipulate monetary policy to create economic conditions favorable to their re-election.
BE INDEPENDENT Be sure to check out independent retailers such as coffee shops, boutiques and restaurants — these thrive in college towns because they reflect the personality that makes the particular destination special.
"I'm going to inspire and help women to be independent and make their own money and have their own life and not be in a situation where they can't get out," she shared.
In 2005, a federal appeals court sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a dispute with the SEC over controversial rules requiring the majority of mutual fund board directors to be independent.
" THE JUDGE'S RULING: FIRST DUTIES This week, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge  Andrew Napolitano  asks whether the FBI can be independent: "On the one hand, the FBI is an investigative entity only.
The amendment also calls for the chairman and vice chairman of the board to be independent directors, and provides an annual retainer of $250,000 for the chairman and $100,000 for the vice chairman.
It is easy for Chinese suspects seeking refuge abroad to argue that they will not get a fair trial if returned home, since the government does not believe that courts should be independent.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should be independent and not under the influence of President Donald Trump in setting monetary policy, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia's pro-independence regional chief Quim Torra said on Thursday he aims for the region to be independent from Spain by the end of 2021 if Catalan parties agree to it.
Safety experts say it is unusual for one of the parties to help fund an investigation, required by U.N. rules to be independent, so as to ensure trust in any safety recommendations made.
"The key to [artistic] success is to be independent—having the freedom to achieve what you want to achieve," Briand began, highlighting the fact he doesn't think that a big income constitutes success.
"I feel I'm in a position in life where I can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences, in the sense that I can truly be independent," he testified.
His desire to get rich was so he could be independent, he explained, and do other things he was interested in, such as giving these types of talks on business and human biases.
Yet, the Fed keeps insisting and has enshrined as part of its own confession of faith that it ought to be "independent" as an immensely powerful fiefdom answerable only to its own theories.
" The unprotected: Brill says they're the vast majority of Americans who "may be independent and hardworking, but they look to their government to preserve their way of life and maybe even improve it.
It ranges from official organs of the Kremlin, like state-owned television stations RT and Sputnik, to right-wing blogs that claim to be independent outlets but actually just rehash the Kremlin's rhetoric.
"One of the reasons I ultimately decided that I would accept this position if it was offered to me was because I feel that I'm in a position to be independent," Barr said.
But while Mr. Erdogan and Turkish intelligence officials distrust the White House, they believe that their longtime partners in the C.I.A. will be independent and nonpartisan, the allies close to Mr. Erdogan said.
Why would this tough negotiator, who claims to be independent of the normal political system, commit in advance to a list of Supreme Court nominees who have been screened by the Heritage Foundation?
The measure, which received substantial financial support from those companies, seeks to enable drivers and couriers to continue to be independent contractors while guaranteeing benefits like a minimum wage, expenses, healthcare and insurances.
By the 18th century, though, the word had acquired a more explicit political meaning: Men needed to be "independent" in order to think clearly about the common good and thus to rule themselves.
The official, who will be independent of department agencies, will be tasked with reviewing complaints filed against Customs and Border Protection and ICE agents, as well as making unannounced inspections of detention facilities.
WADA Director General, David Howman, said on Wednesday Kenya's anti-doping body - set up in 2013 but not active until late last year - must be independent and function properly as soon as possible.
"I've made a very deliberate effort to make sure that I don't look like I'm meddling in what are supposed to be independent processes for making these assessments," Obama stated at the time.
"The CMC is supposed to be independent but it is not, and all of the CMC members are from the ruling parties," said Ziad al-Ajili, the head of the Journalistic Freedom Observatory.
"I feel I'm in a position in life where I can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences in the sense that I can truly be independent," Barr said.
Still, the mere possibility that Trump interfered in the DOJ's review — a process that is supposed to be independent from White House influence — has triggered a groundswell of criticism, particularly on Capitol Hill.
For all the alleged pressure to end the criminal case, prosecutors, who are supposed to be independent of politics in Canada, have formally told SNC-Lavalin that they will not consider a settlement.
The agreement demanded that the municipal court be independent of the Police Department, and called for the repeal of some laws, like a vague jaywalking ordinance that was used almost exclusively against black residents.
If you want to build something that's going to last, [you need to set] the foundation for the things that are going to let you build a company that can be independent long term.
Some of them are going to be Trump voters, some of them are going to be Hillary voters and some probably didn't even vote or even think to vote before, and might be independent.
Some senators have raised concerns that Gorsuch may not be independent of Trump, though he tried to assure them Tuesday that he would break with the president if he runs afoul of the law.
PARIS (Reuters) - Central banks should not only be independent from political pressures but also from short-term pressures such as financial markets' perceptions of inflation, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
McAlpine said the Conservative Party in Scotland had reframed the debate as not being left versus right but about whether Scotland should be independent and they had "very successfully" become the biggest unionist vote.
Why it matters: The decision will determine whether AT&T has grounds to believe that the White House has interfered with the DOJ's merger review, which is supposed to be independent from the president.
In the same interview, Trump dismissed criticism of his comments on the Fed and other agencies seen to be independent of the executive branch, arguing that he was simply sharing his long-held views.
Facebook has said that the news tab would use a new algorithm and that its journalists would be independent of the employees who are signing publishers up to provide their news to the section.
Mnuchin meets regularly with Powell and it is not unheard of for a Fed chair to meet with the President, though it is rare because the position is meant to be independent of politics.
While the idea was to create companies that would be independent and hopefully find other sources of funding (and customers), Coca-Cola was trying to gain something by bringing these startups into the fold.
They wanted a promise that Judge Kavanaugh would be independent of Mr. Trump, asking him, for instance, to promise to recuse himself from cases arising from Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of the president.
The country's prosecutor's office seemed uninterested in investigating and unaware that prosecutors should be independent of the president's office, said Claudia Paz y Paz, a former Guatemalan attorney general who was among the experts.
His most willing accomplice in undermining the rule of American law appears to be Attorney General William Barr, who testified during his confirmation hearings that he would be independent of Trump and his whims.
Still, a senior policy maker who works closely with Rajan said all RBI governors have ultimately proven to be independent as they conform to an institution that has long taken pride in its autonomy.
The comparison platform claims to be independent, even if — like most comparison sites — FinCompare receives a kick back for any brokered loan or other financing solution in the form of commission from its financing partners.
"Turkey needs a complete rebalancing of its economic business plan, and very sharp rate hikes and a strong commitment that the central bank will be independent," Credit Agricole's senior emerging markets strategist Guillaume Tresca said.
Dany then meets with Theon and Yara Greyjoy, with whom she makes a pact to borrow some ships in exchange for defeating their uncle, Euron Greyjoy, and letting the Iron Islands be independent within Westeros.
But this small, personal exchange feels like the first real moment where we see what they're fighting for, at their core: to be independent not just from Earth's politics, but from its endless heavy influences.
According to a recent study from A.T. Kearney, the hardest hit by the DOL ruling will be independent broker-dealers, who stand to lose $4 billion in revenue, or 22 percent, of the industry's total.
According to the company, the will, which allows children to be conceived after the death of both parents if necessary, means that "the right to genetic continuity can now be independent even of life itself".
"We want to try and mainstream them, and integrate them into society with a complete education and some skills with which they can find a job and be independent," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Steinhoff said investigators found that top management figures entered into fictitious transactions with entities purported to be independent third parties to create the illusion of income used to hide losses at the company's operating units.
So that's why I wanted to write about a young person with Williams, right on the cusp of adolescence, to see: How can you grow up; how can you ever be independent with this syndrome?
The current favourite is deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle, a 62-year-old member of the opposition Labour Party who says the Speaker must be independent and fair and has promised to work to unite parliament.
Moving forward, I suspect we will see more machine-learning and artificial-intelligence-based services that may connect to the voice-based assistants or the traditional operating systems, but will actually be independent of them.
"Europe is a powerful economic entity, a powerful economic union and it is quite natural that it wants to be independent, self-sufficient and sovereign in matters of defense and security," Putin told RT television.
The court documents revealed new details about how Mr. Manafort directed a host of players to lobby under false pretenses, pretending to be independent actors when they were in fact paid agents of Mr. Yanukovych.
" The Education Department said it would continue to enforce other provisions of the law that require contractors to be independent of a private school and that the services they provide be "secular, neutral and nonideological.
The FBI and its investigations are designed to be independent of the presidential administration, and FBI Director James Comey has insisted that politics will not influence any decision on whether to bring charges in the probe.
According to the Libra website, Facebook plans to lead the association through 2019, but eventually wants it to be independent and made up of entities that own a large amount of Libra and run validator nodes.
"We focused on improvement initiatives already starting last year because we wanted to be independent from everything that is going on in a more volatile political environment, and I think we are doing fine," Richenhagen said.
"The contents of the indictment that mentions my name and others is absolutely wrong and all parties must look at the facts from the trial and...allow the judges to be independent and impartial," Novanto said.
The move could hinder the delicate process of forming a new government, raising the prospect of further uncertainty in Iraq, and pits the government and parliament against the election commission, which is meant to be independent.
I like to introduce them to all sorts of people because I want them to have the confidence that if I go to work, everything is going to be OK. I want them to be independent.
Though his parents divorced when he was a teenager, the 28-year-old learned how to be independent from his mother, who also instilled in him the importance of compromise and unconditional love in a marriage.
And of course, as Mr. Musk must step down as chairman of the board, we're happy to comply with the requirement that both the new chairman and the new board member be independent from Musk companies.
"In the sea the big fish eats the smaller one... but we want to be independent because independence for a company is like freedom for an individual," Alberto Recordati said on the sidelines of a conference.
The companies consider drivers to be independent contractors, and Thursday's lawsuits are the latest to claim they are actually employees under various federal and state laws because of the degree of control Uber and Lyft exert.
Did President Donald Trump really obstruct justice, as many Democrats argue, or was he simply a neophyte politician with a ham-fisted approach to management who didn't understand that law enforcement is supposed to be independent?
CtW said Kimbal Musk and Mr. Gracias were too close to Elon Musk to be independent voices on the board, and asserted that Mr. Murdoch did not have any business experience relevant to the auto industry.
The South Pacific islands of Bougainville have overwhelmingly voted to be independent from Papua New Guinea in a historic poll on December 11 that has emboldened separatists as they start negotiating the terms of their sovereignty.
"As much as I support the president, there also has to be some willingness to be independent and stand up for what is best for the people of the Sixth District," she said in an interview.
"Perhaps no criterion is more important right now than the capacity of the next attorney general to be independent," said the former attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, under whose tenure Ms. James ran the office's Brooklyn operations.
"We can't afford to be dependent on them because we have something that we want to do and that requires us to be independent — not just financially independent, but independent of platforms," Denton said at the time.
Designate a destination point Organizers and DC officials are anticipating big crowds, so there is a high chance your group could get split up, especially if you have older kids who want to be independent and explore.
China objects Before the session at the White House was even announced, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman sharply criticized any decision that could lend legitimacy to the Dalai Lama's claims that Tibet should be independent from China.
Though my success and perseverance have been attributed to my determination to be independent and pursue my passions, I would never have been so ambitious if my family, friends and teachers did not believe in my abilities.
" And while Belle of Beauty and the Beast may be independent and well-read, Orenstein is frightened by the message that "if you just are kind enough and wonderful enough to the beast he'll become a prince.
Series 3 sounds like it's set to be a big revamp Most significantly, Apple is expected to add LTE connectivity to its wearable, marking the first time the Apple Watch can truly be independent of your iPhone.
The youngest of six children, all of whom were taught to be independent and self-sufficient from an early age, he chose not to go to college and instead tried to make it as a theater actor.
And before you start to say that it looks like Puerto Rico shouldn't be independent because they can't handle their own finances, again you have to remember: Puerto Rico hasn't been in charge of itself since 1952.
So, on Tuesday when Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified for five hours before the House judiciary committee, some members asked whether Sessions -- the nation's top law enforcement officer -- could be independent and uphold the rule of law.
Uber, on the other hand, argues that its drivers "love" the status quo, adding that the New York ruling has no effect nationally and that 13 other states have so far ruled drivers to be independent contractors.
The grown kids whom she adopted have gone on to be independent adults with families, she says, working in law enforcement and other stable careers; only one is plagued by substance abuse and legal troubles, she adds.
"The whole guiding principle was, I liked to be independent," said Tom Aley, an entrepreneur who had three young children when he quit a high-paying job at Reed Elsevier Ventures to start a company called Generate.
In a presidency that demands loyalty oaths from public servants and the personal allegiance of officials whose roles are meant to be independent from the White House, it's fair to say we all know what happens next: Nothing.
In an ideal world, Sheikh Hasina would call off politically motivated prosecutions, stop meddling in institutions that are supposed to be independent and reinstate the system of caretaker governments before elections—things she shows no sign of doing.
"The FRC have backed down on their original proposal that chairs should be independent throughout their term of office, rather than simply on appointment as the current code states," said Alex Beidas, a partner at Linklaters law firm.
"An unhealthy relationship means that the relationship box you are in is too small for each of you to be independent and separate, and you feel lost and frightened without the other person," sex therapist Tammy Nelson said.
Corvex then submitted a plan to Williams in which a majority of directors would be independent, but Williams told the hedge fund it could not commit to that proposal, according to Mr. Meister's letter to shareholders on Wednesday.
Powell's job has been complicated by the sustained attacks by Trump, who on Saturday suggested he might demote the Fed chief — a legally murky proposition, given that the Fed was structured to be independent of short-term politics.
That action, it said, ensured that most directors on the En+ and Rusal boards would be independent, including Americans and Europeans who had no business, professional or family ties to Deripaska or any other person designated for sanctions.
Barr replied to Bolton and echoed his unease, with the attorney general also saying he was also concerned about the image Trump has created by having a hand in what would normally be "independent inquiries," The Times reported.
"We do not believe that requiring the Chairman to be independent will provide appreciably better direction and performance, and instead could cause uncertainty, confusion, and inefficiency in board and management function and relations," Facebook said at the time.
The two companies plan to offer an off-the-shelf face recognition system for smart home, smart retail, smart building and smart security applications, which will be independent of the user's mobile phone, AMS said in a statement.
And still, even after Comey's testimony that the president inappropriately asked for Comey's loyalty at a private dinner at the White House, Trump continues to expect allegiance from those who are supposed to be independent from the White House.
G.S. for Healing," said in a joint statement that the investigation would be independent, comprehensive and not limited "in scope or time period and will be conducted in a manner sensitive to victims who may have already provided information.
He shows contempt for the norms that, to varying degrees, constrained past presidents—whether by refusing to release his tax returns, mixing official and private business, or bullying officials working in, say, the justice department who should be independent.
In 1978, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act, creating something called a "special prosecutor" (also called an "independent counsel") who would be independent from the supervision and control of the president.
Here is Comey's account of some instruction he offered Trump over dinner on January 27: At one point, I explained why it was so important that the FBI and the Department of Justice be independent of the White House.
Millman said the latest surge into Italy was unlikely to be due to smuggling gangs diverting flows of people in response to the EU-Turkey deal, since the Libyan smugglers were thought to be independent of those in Turkey.
"I wanted to find something in which I feel more like I can self-create and be at the origin of, and express my own ideas, and be independent, and not need anyone else to do it," Soko recalls.
Left-leaning economists and activist groups have criticized the New York Fed for having too cozy of a relationship with big banks and have urged the search committee to look for candidates who would be independent from Wall Street.
And my parents, especially my father, he was very optimistic, and he was so much for the freedom of Africa, I think it gave us a freedom to think, a freedom to be independent, not to be so French.
Mr. Wofford, 49, attacked Ms. James's relationship with Mr. Cuomo, questioning whether she would be independent enough from the governor to deal with the string of corruption convictions in Albany, which included two high-ranking associates of Mr. Cuomo's.
Last but not least, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 sought to watch against a replay of Watergate by establishing the Office of the Independent Counsel to ensure that there would be independent investigations into executive branch corruption.
"The Justice Department needs a leader who will be independent of the White House and who is able to stand up to President Trump," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a statement.
In the end federal prosecutors, who in Canada's system are supposed to be independent of politicians, decided to continue to prosecute the company rather than seek a settlement under a new law introduced by Mr. Trudeau's government last March.
So did two other shareholder proposals Walmart recommended against — one that would have required its chair be independent from the board of directors and another that asked it to produce a report on potential ethnic and racial wage gaps.
"Lexi is very 'empower women' and she had the attitude going into it that she would love to find love, but if not, she wanted to use this to … teach women to be independent and they can do anything," Julie said.
While the national security background runs deep in the veins of some Silicon Valley tech platforms, and Chinese companies are perceived as closely associated with their government, still, most tech giants prefer to appear politically neutral and to be independent.
"We focused on improvement initiatives already starting last year because we wanted to be independent from everything that is going on in a more volatile political environment, and I think we are doing fine," Richenhagen said in a "Mad Money" interview.
"All of these actions – when taken in context with reported meetings between the Trump administration, Sinclair, and Chairman Pai's office – have raised serious concerns about whether Chairman Pai's actions comply with the FCC's mandate to be independent," the pair wrote.
And with the ongoing rise of the so-called Gig Economy — a practice in which independent workers take short-term contracts with employers — Intuit predicts that by 8503, as much as 2850 percent of American workers could be independent contractors.
"Lexi is very 'empower women' and she had the attitude going into it that she would love to find love, but if not, she wanted to use this to … teach women to be independent and they can do anything," she explains.
In 2009, Ana Rosa Heredia, a cook both at heart and at work, co-founded a restaurant in Choco's capital of Quibdo, where she teaches her female staff both how to cook as well as the life skills to be independent.
Malta, moreover, has a constitution inherited from its former British colonial masters that is better suited to the needs of empire than those of a contemporary democracy: one in which the executive wields decisive powers over institutions that should be independent.
It's a controversial move, considering he's trying to rush it through parliament with a simple-majority vote and the law mandates that if those in favor win, Catalan will be independent within 48 hours of the vote, per The Economist.
Corporate governance and shareholder voting advisers Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, however, have said that they don't consider Buss to be "independent" because of his ties to Solar City, the solar panel business Tesla acquired in 2016, according to Reuters.
Retiring Her mother, who taught in a one-room schoolhouse in the hills of Kentucky a century ago, had some words of wisdom for Adna Bert Baldwin: A woman should be independent and have money to pay her own way.
Trump has denied this was the case and Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis, an opinion contributor to The Hill, also told MSNBC in August that there may be independent evidence outside of Cohen's word that the president violated campaign finance law.
"If Erdogan wins, your phones will continue to be listened to ... Fear will continue to reign ... If Ince wins, the courts will be independent," said Ince, adding he would lift Turkey's state of emergency within 83 hours of being elected.
"In our constitutional system, a judge must be independent, must keep an open mind in every case and must decide cases based on the facts and the law, not based on personal or policy views," he said at the event.
Nurmantyo said that the material "discredited the TNI, the nation of Indonesia and even the ideology of Indonesia", referring to material concerning East Timor and "Papua needing to be independent", as well as mocking the country's founding principles, known as Pancasila.
Another possible sticking point: The Cuban federation, which is required under Olympic rules to be independent of the central government, can still prevent younger players from leaving Cuba before they reach their 25th birthday or have six years of service time.
When Mr. de Blasio appointed him as the commissioner of the Department of Investigation, the choice was greeted with skepticism, with critics asking whether someone so close to the mayor would be independent enough to pursue investigations into the administration.
Although the Supreme Court has never directly addressed whether such experts must be independent of prosecutors, the justices had long planned to hear arguments on that question next week in a case involving a prisoner from Alabama, James E. McWilliams.
As Randy Barnett, for example, recently explained, "judicial engagement" is the idea that judges are servants of the people, and their job is to be independent arbiters of justice when questions are raised about whether legislatures have exceeded their powers.
Now, Mr. Amoreau is among the most passionate advocates for biodynamics in the true sense of the theory, which calls for farms to be independent, diverse estates in which everything that is required for a healthy growing environment is one ecosystem.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The South Pacific islands of Bougainville have overwhelmingly voted to be independent from Papua New Guinea, the referendum commission said on Wednesday, in a historic poll that will embolden separatists as they start negotiating the terms of their sovereignty.
She founded the nonprofit WE (Women Empowerment) and serves as the ambassador of WomenWill, which helps women and girls "amplify the role of women in society and teach them skills so they can be independent," according to the Miss Universe website.
"A woman fearlessly expressing herself and saying, 'I'm encouraging all of you to be independent, to speak your mind, to express your sexuality freely without shame, to not allow men to objectify you, to objectify yourself' — I don't know," she said.
This risk of a massive backlash against Trump in suburbs with high numbers of college graduates has been apparent for years, but House Republicans largely avoided it in 22012 by distancing themselves from Trump and promising to be independent of him.
Holding otherwise, and allowing the president to appoint an at-will White House employee to head the CFPB, "would violate Dodd-Frank's requirement that the CFPB be independent and set a dangerous precedent for independent agencies throughout the executive branch," English said.
Tech Insider reveals that kids who take on chores are more likely to be independent at work when they grow up, and can recognize when coworkers (whom they more easily collaborate with than their non-chore-doing counterparts) are facing something challenging.
Meanwhile, four former fed chairmen, including Alan Greenspan, have just released a joint statement through the Wall Street journal to press Trump, requiring the Fed to be independent of political pressure to make monetary policy that is truly beneficial to the U.S. economy.
A lot of women want to be independent but they don't want to buy this macho bullshit anymore, so they don't really have a lot of men around them who could be attracted to strong independent women, so they find themselves being dissatisfied.
It is thought nocturnal erections can be used as a marker of an anatomical ability to get an erection (a sign that the essential body bits are working), as it was thought to be independent of psychological factors that affect erections while awake.
With the ideological litmus test that President Trump has applied in making this selection, the American people are justified to wonder whether Judge Gorsuch can truly be independent of the president who nominated him, and the moneyed interests that hand-picked him.
"Once you start venturing outside of monetary policy as a Fed official, it's a minefield and you quickly lose credibility in saying that monetary policy should be independent," said Calabria, who pointed to a long track record of Fed officials offering fiscal prescriptions.
"I think Scotland will be independent, yes, but that's a choice for the Scottish people," Sturgeon, who is first minister in Scotland, replied after she was asked in an ITV interview if she thought the UK will have broken up by 2025.
"Once someone in a position that is supposed to be independent does something like that, everything gets colored through that lens," Mimi Rocah, a fellow at Pace University's law school and former assistant U.S. attorney, said of Barr's handling of the Mueller report.
We want you to respect us enough to extend the opportunity to work in a meaningful job, to work side-by-side with you toward a common goal, and most importantly to earn a living wage so that we can be independent.
The material "discredited the Indonesian military (TNI), the nation of Indonesia and even the ideology of Indonesia," he said, referring to material concerning East Timor and "Papua needing to be independent", as well as mocking the country's founding principles, known as Pancasila.
But in a breathtaking new interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump makes it clear — over and over again — that he does not believe the FBI or any other agency should in any way be independent from his personal whims and interests.
"Conscious of the regulatory failures that had fueled the 2008 crisis, Congress took pains to ensure that the new agency would be independent enough to resist capture by powerful financial interests and fulfill its critical responsibilities to American consumers," the lawsuit stated.
"City Hall's effort to impose red tape on our schools without authority shows that the de Blasio administration never really embraced the idea that charter schools are supposed to be independent of the district school system," Ms. Moskowitz, said in a statement.
In his tweet on Wednesday morning, Trump also asserted that "we need more Republicans in 2018" and the GOP "must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court," a notable choice of words, since the judiciary is supposed to be independent of the executive branch.
The indictment alleges that Manafort used "at least four offshore accounts to wire more than 2 million euros to pay the group of former politicians," known as the "Hapsburg group," to take pro-Russia positions and lobby U.S. officials while appearing to be independent.
He said South Korea should be independent from ally Washington's so-called nuclear umbrella to deter North Korea's nuclear threat, or reconsider deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons, which were withdrawn from South Korea in 1992 under a pact for the denuclearization of the peninsula.
Moreover, Benchmark alleges that Kalanick pledged in writing -- as part of his resignation agreement -- that the two empty board seats would be independent and subject to approval by the entire board (something Benchmark says was the reason it didn't sue for fraud at the time).
Think about what's happening to children in middle school: raging hormones, changing bodies and brains, exposure to peer pressure and risky behaviors like experimenting with drugs and alcohol, and a clash between a desire to be independent, but still feeling dependent on Mom and Dad.
"[Instead of having] to go to someplace that requires a lot of assistance and ultimately a lot of money, these little things can make huge differences in people's quality of life, enabling them to be independent and have a sense of self-worth," Hartley says.
McNamee's history in the Trump administration and working for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation have raised significant objections from Democrats that he can't live up to the expectation that FERC commissioners should be independent and neutral when it comes to energy fuel sources.
Facebook, for its part, has said that the news tab would use a new algorithm, and that the team of journalists vetting the stories would be independent of the employees who are in charge of signing publishers up to provide their news to the section.
On Friday at 9:21 PM, love and money planet Venus faces off with Uranus, the planet of surprises, creating tension between our need to be independent and what we value in our relationships—we'll be confronted with a decision that has to be made.
Judge Kavanaugh held up his ruling in a 2012 appeals court case reversing the military commissions conviction of a former Guantánamo detainee, Salim Hamdan, as evidence that he would be independent and could resist public and political pressure when it came to deciding cases.
Mr. Barr responded by pointing to a pair of Justice Department investigations of companies in those countries and said he was worried that Mr. Trump had created the appearance that he had undue influence over what would typically be independent inquiries, according to the manuscript.
Because the proposals floated by the president and congressional leaders differ, specialists in tax planning encourage existing or would-be independent contractors to focus more on the questions they will have to ask themselves and their advisers than on coming up with specific answers.
The FAA's reputation has "been damaged in part because I think there is a perception, particularly among other regulatory agencies, that the FAA is not proven to be independent of Boeing, that it has not exercised its regulatory oversight in an aggressive manner," Goelz said.
Barr responded by pointing to a pair of Justice Department investigations of companies in those countries and said he was worried that Mr. Trump had created the appearance that he had undue influence over what would typically be independent inquiries, according to the manuscript.
Given that the DOJ's new antitrust leader, Makan Delrahim, had previously suggested the deal might not pose major competition concerns, some saw the demand as a sign that Trump had interfered in the agency's investigation, which is supposed to be independent from the White House.
Related: Hong Kong Braces for Fresh Protests as Electoral Reform Vote Looms "Any suggestion that [Hong Kong] should be independent or any movement to advocate such independence... would be inconsistent with the legal status of Hong Kong," the Department of Justice (DOJ) told Reuters.
The Office of Congressional Ethics would no longer be independent: House Republicans voted to put it under the control of the House Ethics Committee, meaning that lawmakers — and in practice, the Republican majority — would be in charge of the office that's supposed to be investigating them.
In an op-ed titled "I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge" published in The Wall Street Journal one week after he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh defends his emotional testimony, explaining that it does not reflect his ability to be independent in court.
The different programs available, the idea that it is not unusual for a woman to want to be independent or to want to start a venture from scratch… whatever the reason is, it's happening and it's a revolution that's super fun to take an active part in.
"In our culture today, girls are taught from grade school that we tell them that what is most honorable in life is a career, and their ultimate goal in life is simply to be able to grow up and be independent of anyone or anything," said Harris.
"Kavanaugh's statements were so partisan and suggested so strongly an inability to be independent on any sort of issue salient to contemporary politics that his confirmation would put at serious risk the rule of law," Stephen Burbank, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, said.
So Facebook instructing an 'oversight board' of its own making to do anything other than smooth publicity bumps in the road, and pave the way for more Facebook business as usual, is like asking a Koch brothers funded 'stink tank' to be independent of fossil fuel interests.
Abortion and gun control Over and over Wednesday, Kavanaugh, who was calm and disciplined during a long day of scrutiny from Democrats under pressure from grassroots activists to show vigorous resistance to Trump's nominee, argued that judges must be independent and must confine their rulings to precedent.
"I pledge to be independent in my decision making and frankly no one tells me what to do," Shelton said, deflecting questions about her past writings that, for example, characterized the Fed's setting of a short-term interest rate as similar to Soviet Union central planning.
The new indictment also alleges that Manafort used "at least four offshore accounts to wire more than 2 million euros to pay the group of former politicians," known as the "Hapsburg group," to take pro-Russia positions and lobby U.S. officials while appearing to be independent.
On Tuesday night, Catalan President Carles Puigdemont would go on to deliver an address, laying out his arguments for why Catalonia should be independent from Spain, only to conclude it by postponing a serious declaration of independence for several more weeks to allow dialogue between Spain and Catalonia.
The FCC is supposed to be independent, but not completely As an independent regulatory agency, the FCC is supposed to be insulated partially from the demands of the executive branch, even though the president may appoint a majority of members to the commission who share their policy objectives.
Zuckerberg claims the election research commission will be "independent" of Facebook and will define the research agenda, soliciting research on the effects of social media on elections and democracy April 10: Per its earlier announcement, Facebook begins blocking apps from accessing user data 90 days after non-use.
"If the director always has to look over his or her shoulder to see whether they are appeasing powerful financial interests and politicians, then the director will not be able to be independent and focus on the question of what's best for consumers and fair markets," she said.
"Thanks to my dad, who thought it was important for a girl to be independent, early on I had a taste of what it felt like to have self-esteem and to accomplish a goal," said Ms. Kavovit, who has built on that childhood success, and then some.
Even in our own solar system, we expected the moons of Jupiter and Saturn were merely dead lumps of rock or frozen snowballs, whereas we now understand that several have warm oceans underneath a coating of ice — ideal potential breeding grounds for what may be independent forms of life.
It was his first exhibition and he was in his 80s, and so for me, I saw the beauty in how you can really be dedicated to your craft for a really long time and be independent and entrepreneurial and then later find yourself on a global stage.
Their concerns, echoed by other independent brewers, ranged from whether individual ratings will truly be independent, to the potential for favoritism in the placement of reviews on the site, to the lack of transparency about the deal, which was consummated in October but was only recently made public.
Haran said that some of Zelensky's comments were "too much" including his statement that the next Ukrainian prosecutor general would be "100%" his choice, when the he or she should be independent from the president (although the post is appointed by the president with the consent of parliament).
Well in the mid-1970s, there was a group of us who were relatively young people with disabilities, mostly wheelchair users, who got together periodically to discuss the frustration that we felt, the barriers that we encountered in trying to be independent and trying to be part of the community.
I don't think there's any society in the world that is prepared for the huge number of people with disability that are going to be in our community and who wish to be independent, not living in institutions but accommodated in the home that they've lived in most of their lives.
Comey wrote a memo about nearly every phone call and meeting he held with President Trump, sources close to him have told NBC News, and he was concerned that Trump did not appear to respect the decades-long tradition that the FBI director should be independent from the White House.
Manafort has admitted to arranging for the firms, the now-defunct Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs, to work for a nonprofit that claimed to be independent but was in fact under Yanukovych's direction in order to obscure that their efforts were done at the behest of the Ukrainian government.
"That would be one of the issues that I certainly would want to make sure, and that he recognizes that not only that Mr. Mueller has to be allowed to complete his investigation unimpeded, but also that prosecutorial decisions that are made by the department need to be independent," she said.
In the Iranian attacks, some posts came from a news organization called "Quest 4 Truth." that purported to be independent but that Facebook said was in fact affiliated with Iranian state media called "Liberty Front Press," Facebook says the page was created as far back as the beginning of 2013.
"But the real issue that I think the senator is injecting into this is that, if you had a super-PAC like President Obama had — which now says it wants to support me, it's not my PAC — if you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent," said Clinton.
But one could easily imagine an article from Vox in 1750 making the case that the century ahead was a uniquely important era — after all, by the end of it, America would be independent, the international slave trade ending, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era ahead to catastrophically shake Europe.
Less than four weeks after Kurds in the region voted overwhelmingly to break away from Iraq, the central government launched a military offensive to wrest back the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, which the Kurds regard as both their spiritual homeland, and a key source of revenue for their would-be independent state.
"My hope is that anyone who is watching, any young girl whether they are cisgender or transgender, gay or straight, they can understand that they can be successful, that they can be independent, they can be seen, they can be respected as the equal humans that we all are," McBride explains to PEOPLE.
Republicans looking closely at Ohio say they have their fingers crossed that Portman can continue to walk that line -- be independent enough that GOP voters unsure about their nominee will still go vote for Portman, and once they're there, feel compelled to vote for the guy at the top of the ticket too.
KELLY EVANS: And when Art Laffer has been saying that monetary policy should be accountable to people the same way that any other kind of policy is, especially through the executive branch, when he says that maybe the Fed shouldn't be independent because then it can't be accountable to voters, is he right?
The GOP promise to take no action before the next inauguration is nakedly partisan—and guarantees heightened rancour over the branch of government the framers intended to be independent and above politics—but there is no doubt the pledge constitutes "advice" (however poor) and (a refusal of) "consent" to an Obama nominee.
As Credit Karma starts to build out a portfolio of services related to different parts of a consumer's financial life cycle, like many startups it has to make the decision as to whether tools deserve to be independent apps or baked into a core product — and where they go in that core product.
"I think there are so many different kinds of feminism—some good, some maybe too extreme—it's a wonderful thing for women to come together, to be strong, to be independent, to have equal rights as human beings... There shouldn't be a glass ceiling," she says, sort of talking around the question.
In a place like Montana, where the winters are long and dark, a man is taught to "cowboy up," be independent and not be a burden to others, says Karl Rosston, a licensed clinical social worker who serves as the suicide prevention coordinator for the state's Department of Public Health and Human Services.
"It (the government) will use every resource in its command to pressurize, manipulate, misguide media or any other voice which seeks to be independent of the government," said Khare, who was for some time the prime minister's press secretary in the Congress Party government that lost power to Modi and the BJP in 2014.
It ushered in an onslaught of critiques of 'Ye â€" from fans and peers in the entertainment industry alike, but it also sparked thoughts from fellow Chicago artist, Chance the Rapper, who tweeted his seeming support along with two statements: "Black people don’t have to be democrats" and "Next President gon be independent.
Last year's Moana gave Disney fans a heroine who not only broke the mold in terms of what "princesses" (in this case, the daughter of a Polynesian village chief) are "meant" to look like (hello, curves and muscle tone!), but also proved to be independent, motivated, courageous, and fully capable of saving the day herself.
Certainly, part of that story is about our towns becoming less rugged and more uniform as property prices increase, and clubs are priced out, but it's also about an unwillingness from authorities to allow young people to use the night for hedonistic freedom, an unwillingness from business to let clubs be independent, unregulated, and unprofitable.
"I'm trying every way I know how to give people some comfort that I'm going to be independent and work on their behalf, and so far, it seems to be working," Bredesen said after shaking hands with local union members who spent a hot Saturday afternoon grilling, listening to music and playing lawn games.
And so the reality is that his promise to fund his campaign himself and therefore to be independent of the demands of donors will come a cropper immediately were he to get the nomination; just as he has been chasing dollars his whole life, so will he continue that pattern in the political arena.
The belligerent Abkhaz decided that this was their national dish, but since they couldn't conceivably keep the same name for it (what kind of would-be independent country names a dish after a region of their neighboring enemy?), they opted to reinforce their allegiance to Russia by calling it lodochka, or "little boat" in Russian.
Because Bigelow is purchasing whole trips aboard the SpaceX capsule, its schedule would be independent of NASA's, and the stays could be longer, perhaps 30 or 60 days, said Robert Bigelow, the chief executive of Bigelow Space Operations and Bigelow Aerospace, a sister company that has an experimental inflatable module currently docked at the station.
Mr. Barr's dueling performances underscored tensions inherent in the role of the attorney general, pitting the ideal that the nation's top law enforcement official should be independent of politics and enforce a neutral understanding of the rule of law against the reality that he or she is politically appointed and part of any administration's team.
His performance was sufficiently inflammatory for him to follow up with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which, without really apologising ("I said a few things I should not have said," he wrote, but "I hope everyone can understand that I was there as a son, husband and dad") he pledged to be "independent" and "impartial".
Facebook Gets a New Committee I enjoyed Matt Levine's take on whether Facebook's new privacy oversight committee will be independent in practice given Mark Zuckerberg's controlling share of the stock: Again I think Chopra is probably right that, practically speaking, there are serious limits on how aggressive and effective the committee can be in protecting user privacy.
Incisive questions from the committee today included sceptical scrutiny of Facebook's claims and aims for a self-styled 'Content Oversight Board' it has said will launch next year — with one Irish legislator querying how the mechanism could possibly be independent of Facebook , as well as wondering how a retrospective appeals body could prevent content-driven harms.
And now he tells me he puts X amount of his salary into one account and Y into another, using his cellphone, so his wife is empowered and not asking her mother-in-law for money, because she has her own debit card, and the son, who is off in school training to be a doctor, can be independent.
The report was meant to be independent, but Craig's law firm was being paid more than $4 million for it, and members of Manafort's team had been in touch with Craig for planning of the roll-out, with the intention of minimizing damage to their client Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych about the approach to the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko.
"It just means that if you're describing some physics right, then it should be independent of what kind of 'rulers' you use, or more generally what kind of observers you are," explained Miranda Cheng, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam who wrote a paper with Cohen and others exploring the connections between physics and gauge CNNs.
It will therefore also mean that European citizens will be able to move freely to and from the U.K. But there have been reports that some government officials want EU citizens entering the U.K. to register with the authorities during that period, and for the U.K. courts to be independent of the European Court of Justice.
For weeks the people of Hong Kong have waged peaceful protests against a government that is supposed to be independent of China under the "one country, two systems" model agreed when the territory reverted to China from the UK. Protests started against a bill that would have allowed extradition to China, where the legal system is beholden to the Communist Party-controlled regime.
She worked with me to file a complaint with my Title IX coordinator, who connected me with free counseling on campus, spoke to my professors about allowing me extensions on my school work, issued a no-contact order between my rapist and me, and had my scholarship moved to be independent of any department so I was able to continue my education.
Ousted FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE fired back at President Trump for tweeting that the bureau's reputation was in "tatters" on Sunday, saying the FBI would always be independent.
Whether it's ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft, or delivery companies like Postmates, Doordash and Instacart, a slew of companies have grown up in the smartphone era with a radical idea: When just about everyone has a smartphone and a credit card, you can assemble a workforce on a moment's notice, pay workers electronically and let them be independent contractors.

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