The self-governing solution the TV industry proposed to Congress and the FCC more than 20 years ago isn't really self-governing, it's self-serving – and it isn't working for families.
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The self-governing island of Taiwan has also confirmed a case.
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Taiwan, a self-governing island, is a convenient and welcoming refuge.
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The UN still lists Western Sahara as a "non-self-governing territory".
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Rocard built his version of municipal socialism around self-governing local committees.
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Indeed, a free and self-governing society depends on broadly educated citizens.
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These other partners in our self-governing play large and defining roles.
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Puerto Rico is a self-governing US territory whose citizens are Americans.
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Taiwan is a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province.
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Some suggested describing such groups as self-governing, a definition Ms. Krishna questioned.
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Taiwan has been self-governing since it split with mainland China in 1949.
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Democracy depends on facts made available to citizens in a self-governing society.
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All residents of Hubei province are banned from entering the self-governing island.
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It was granted free city status under [Rome] making it autonomous and self-governing.
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Greenland is [now] self-governing, and Canada is 400 km away [from Camp Century].
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By almost all measures, the self-governing democratic island outperforms the communist-ruled mainland.
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Beijing considers self-governing Taiwan a renegade province ineligible for state-to-state relations.
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The crash comes ahead of the self-governing island's general election on January 11.
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It gives Hong Kong self-governing power and various freedoms, including limited election rights.
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It was self-governing, instead of having a music director who dictated its program.
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All three islands are self-governing and have their own legal and financial systems.
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The British financial sector would remain relatively self-governing, with limited legislative intervention, for decades.
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None of the 14 self-governing churches that make up global Orthodoxy accepts his title.
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China's Communist Party claims self-governing Taiwan as its territory, but has never ruled it.
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Conservatives argue that such policies threaten to fracture the church into small, self-governing branches.
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China threatens to use force against the self-governing island to assert its claim of sovereignty.
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In the north, America has worked with the Kurds to carve out a self-governing region.
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US and Iraqi officials have spoken of creating eight self-governing areas in and around Mosul.
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The most likely bet has always been on Puerto Rico, a self-governing United States territory.
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Information technologies should be harnessed to modernize our self-governing and help prevent large system failures.
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However, Mr. Moallem dismissed out of hand any suggestion that eastern Aleppo could be self-governing.
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Taiwan is a self-governing democratic island of 23.7 million people off the coast of China.
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Conservatives argue that such policies threaten to break up the church into small, self-governing branches.
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They are content to remain within the borders of Syria as an autonomous self-governing confederation.
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Each church is a self-governing congregation that makes its own decisions on staffing, budget and programs.
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Cases were also confirmed in the Chinese territory of Macao and the self-governing island of Taiwan.
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That framework gives the international financial hub self-governing power and various freedoms, including limited election rights.
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Images of the flag of Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims, are banned from broadcasts.
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Local councils, held up by Morocco as evidence that the region is self-governing, are regarded with contempt.
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"The Isle of Man is self-governing, but the Queen is still head of state there," says Arbiter.
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China considers the self-governing island its own territory to be recovered by force if it deems necessary.
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Greenland has been self-governing with its own parliament since 2009, 30 years after Denmark granted it autonomy.
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The bottom line: The U.S. is stoking Beijing's ire by increasing its engagement with the self-governing island.
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Mount Athos, the spiritual epicenter of Orthodoxy, is an entirely self-governing monastic republic, with its own parliament.
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Scotland — a largely self-governing entity within Britain with a strong independence movement — has a distinct national identity.
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Greenland's society is a far cry from capitalism Greenland is a Danish territory, but it's largely self-governing.
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In 1893, it was the first self-governing country to give all adult women the right to vote.
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No target is too small as China steps up pressure on Taiwan, the self-governing island it claims.
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In particular, they emphasize the United States' origins in the ideal of self-governing peoples with defined borders.
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Taiwanese people are concerned that China may eventually want to challenge the sovereignty of the self-governing island.
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In mid-March, the Syrian Kurds took another step toward independence, voting to establish a self-governing federal region.
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What resonated was when he went after us, and after the most powerful tool of a self-governing nation.
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Self-policing and self-governing, it is a sanctuary from drug cartels as well as from the Mexican state.
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He praised our mastery of the "art of association," which was crucial, he believed, for a self-governing people.
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If these are deemed to be free and fair, self-governing status could be granted to separatist-held areas.
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China claims the self-governing island as its own territory to be brought under its control by force, if necessary.
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The 12 other self-governing churches which make up world Orthodoxy would face an awkward choice between the two Patriarchates.
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Beijing also wants to someday assert control of Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that Beijing regards as a renegade territory.
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Tsai said the election outcome was a further show of how ingrained democracy has become on the self-governing island.
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The barbarian game is clear: to blind Americans to the fact that the United States is a self-governing enterprise.
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We Americans are self-governing, and in the face of malevolent and feckless and corrupt people, there are better options.
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It is the largest territory retained by a Native American tribe, bigger than 10 US states, and is self-governing.
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And trusts organized in the Cook Islands, a self-governing state associated with New Zealand, are particularly difficult to investigate.
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The self-governing island was expected to know later Saturday whether Tsai had triumphed with her tough stance toward China.
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The coverage also sought to deliver a message to Taiwan, the self-governing democracy that China claims as its territory.
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Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean Sea that is also a largely self-governing territory of the United States.
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He provides an account of life in a self-governing society, and why Denmark is the "liberal little brother" of Europe.
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Advocates for Hong Kong independence usually point to Singapore as an obvious regional example of a small, self-governing city state.
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"[The Poseidon Principles] are the world's first global, sector-specific and self-governing climate alignment agreement among financial institutions," Mitchell said.
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The original vision of the internet, as a self-governing cyber-Utopia, has long since been consigned to history (see article).
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Beijing also wants to some day assert control of Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that Beijing regards as a renegade territory.
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Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state, yet the island is self-governing and reliant on Britain for its defense.
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It's Spain: Specifically, it's the southernmost region of Andalusia, a self-governing state of sorts, about the size of South Carolina.
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It could also refer to the Pentagon's recent arms sale to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers its own.
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Her own choice would have been gender equal, racially equal, economically fair and self-governing, but that was not on offer.
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So, as self-governing societies, it is time for us to help industry help themselves by establishing a digital social contract.
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It became self-governing in 1966 in "free association" with New Zealand, sharing a currency and some foreign and defense responsibilities.
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They are symbols and recognition that there were fully autonomous self-governing peoples here long before the creation of this country.
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Niue, a self-governing nation with strong ties to New Zealand and a land mass about the size of Orlando, Fla.
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Beijing is also deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions toward self-governing and democratic Taiwan, which is armed by the United States.
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Under the "One China" policy countries do not maintain diplomatic relations with self-governing Taiwan, which Beijing considers part of its territory.
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Here's why: Taiwan is a democratic and self-governing island off the coast of China that China sees as a renegade province.
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In 2017, Panama cut ties with Taiwan, a self-governing island that China considers a renegade province, to establish relations with China.
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So why does Somaliland remain unrecognised and without de jure independence, despite its relative success as an autonomous and self-governing state?
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In a referendum in 2009, the people of Curacao voted to become a self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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The best predictor of a self-governing citizen is a close relationship between a child and his/her biological or adopted parents.
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Though Mr. Chan has said he would surrender to Taiwan, that self-governing island and Hong Kong are arguing over the terms.
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Conservatives believe that a self-governing society depends on individuals taking responsibility for their actions, and those of their family and community.
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They have also stoked greater fears of Beijing among citizens of Taiwan, the self-governing island that the party longs to rule.
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I got involved in politics because of this European question because I wanted us to be an independent, free, self-governing democratic nation.
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Officially the Republic of China, Taiwan has been self-governing since 1949, but Beijing claims it as an inalienable part of its territory.
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He mandated two North American bishops to act as his representatives in preparing the way for a fully self-governing church in Kiev.
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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, who's led the self-governing island since 2016, must still sign the legislation, which she's expected to do.
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"It supposes the breakdown of the constitution's territorial model" under which Spain decentralised many powers and revenues to 20063 self-governing "autonomous communities".
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I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician.
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The island nation was ceded to the US in 1898 after the Spanish-American War and became a self-governing republic in 1935.
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Located in the South Pacific, Niue Island has just 1,600 inhabitants and is a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.
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We believe that we are self-governing and that when government expands its authority, it does so at the expense of our liberty.
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The Kurdish party that dominates the S.D.F. has always said the territory would remain as a self-governing part of a federalized Syria.
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Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, has said it will not comply with any extradition agreement that defines it as a part of China.
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In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Ms. Wilson-Raybould said that enabling Indigenous groups to become self-governing was her goal.
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In northeastern Syria they have fought off the Islamic State, with support of the United States, and carved out a self-governing enclave.
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The only potential beneficiary is Trump himself and his quest for an authoritarian grip over a critically self-governing institution like the Fed.
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"We seek a new and equal partnership — between an independent, self-governing, global Britain and our friends and allies in the E.U.," Mrs.
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And although Puerto Rico is a primarily self-governing body, as a US territory its power depends on Congress, which offers little relief.
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There are simply only two path towards self-governing in Puerto Rico: statehood and independence/free associations; both are in the June 11 ballot.
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The country was formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta, when it was established in 1958 as a self-governing colony under France.
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China considers self-governing democratic Taiwan a renegade province and Beijing has not ruled out using military force to bring Taiwan under its rule.
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The man who brought dreams of Kurdish statehood closer to reality than ever before was born in the self-governing Kurdish Republic of Mahabad.
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The word came down from Washington in mid-June, in two Supreme Court rulings that insult our pride as self-governing United States citizens.
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They pledge to act as fiduciaries when providing financial advice and can lose their designation if their self-governing board discovers they have not.
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China considers self-governing Taiwan to be part of its territory, and Taiwan has said it will oppose any agreement that undermines its sovereignty.
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By the 313s, however, New Zealand was self-governing and abortion could be accessed when a woman's life or mental health was in danger.
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The country was formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta when it was established in 1958 as a self-governing colony under France.
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Mr. Mugabe returned to Southern Rhodesia — the legal name of his country then, when it was still a self-governing British colony — in 1960.
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Success in Hong Kong would be leveraged to court reunification with Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as part of its territory.
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The National People's Congress draws representatives from all over China, including some nominally representing Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing has long claimed.
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Whaling close to shore is permitted in the islands, which lie between the mainland and Iceland and are a self-governing part of Denmark.
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The vote sought to ratify a law signed by President Rodrigo Duterte last year that would create a self-governing area known as Bangsamoro.
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"I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician," he said.
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THE SEASIDE promenade in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, a self-governing British Crown dependency, boasts grand Victorian buildings and a horse-drawn tram.
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In 1952 the island became a self-governing "commonwealth", subject to American law but excluded from federal income taxes and from voting representation in Washington.
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In Taiwan, a self-governing island China views as a breakaway province, Tsai Ing-wen was elected as its first female president in early 2016.
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Many monks in northern Greece's self-governing monastic community of Mount Athos — regarded as the jewel in the Ecumenical Patriarchate's crown — have pro-Russian tendencies.
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Mr. Mugabe was born in 22013 in Kutama, northwest of the capital of Harare in what was then Southern Rhodesia, a self-governing British colony.
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But Washington has supported any decisions by nations to continue recognizing Taiwan, a self-governing island that China wants to bring under Communist Party rule.
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C. Puerto Rico is a self-governing United States territory, just like Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
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With Burkina Faso cutting diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the self-governing island is left with one remaining ally in Africa (Swaziland) and only 17 worldwide.
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Zelensky has already accepted a formula that calls for elections in separatist-held territories, which could lead to a self-governing status in some areas.
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The Chinese territory operates under the "one country, two systems" framework which grants Hong Kong self-governing power and various freedoms, including limited election rights.
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The site, which Dickinson says launches next month, describes itself as "an ideological crowdfunding platform and self-governing political party" operated now primarily by volunteers.
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Tensions between Taiwan and Beijing, which claims the self-governing island as part of Chinese territory, have emerged as one of the region's flash points.
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China's authoritarian government claims Taiwan as part of its territory, so any time the self-governing island holds an election, the world tends to pay attention.
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MOST DANES thought it was a joke when President Donald Trump said America might buy Greenland, a self-governing island that forms 98% of Danish territory.
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The Washington Post explains how Trump became tantalized by a U.S. purchase of Greenland, a self-governing territory within Denmark, as a large real estate deal.
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Reversing more than a century of self-governing autonomy, its presence has become the biggest federal intrusion on the island since the military invasion of 1898.
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The Kurdish groups have carved out self-governing regions since early in the six-year conflict, but they say they are not seeking independence from Damascus.
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Alongside a massive arsenal of missiles capable of striking Taiwan, Chinese naval and air forces conduct increasingly complex exercises that regularly encircle the self-governing island.
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BEIJING — As China ratchets up pressure on Taiwan, the self-governing island it claims as its territory, the United States is cautiously starting to push back.
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He also said the United States would continue to support Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its territory, with military and other assistance.
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Taiwan said on Sunday that it would bar all visitors from China's Hubei Province to the self-governing island, where a few cases have been confirmed.
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Under that principle, Hong Kong is given self-governing power, a largely separate legal and economic framework from China, and various freedoms including limited election rights.
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The self-governing island is on high alert for digital-age trickery and deception that Beijing might be using to try to swing a crucial election.
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Under that structure, Hong Kong is given self-governing power, a largely separate legal and economic framework from China, and various freedoms including limited election rights.
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Under that structure, Hong Kong is given self-governing power, a largely separate legal and economic framework from China, and various freedoms including limited election rights.
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The United Nations uses the sanitizing term "non-self-governing" to describe the Western Sahara, and has since 1963, when it was still a Spanish colony.
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Analysts say that China is widely seen as having tried to influence the local elections through economic pressure on the self-governing island, including by discouraging tourism.
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Beijing is sensitive to any calls for independence in Hong Kong and Taiwan, which is self-governing but is claimed by China under the "one China" policy.
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When, as now seems certain, an autocephalous (self-governing) independent Ukrainian church is formally constituted, a new leader will presumably be elected by a gathering of bishops.
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He claims the social media business model, built around the needs of marketing agencies instead of lives, are already far too entrenched and profitable for self-governing.
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Kazakhstan, which became self-governing in 1991, took things more slowly, in part because ethnic Kazakhs at that time made up less than half of its population.
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Kurdish groups have carved out self-governing regions since the start of the war in 2011, though Kurdish leaders say an independent state is not their goal.
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Under the Taiwan Relations Act passed by Congress in 1979, the US is committed to providing self-defense weapons to the self-governing island off China's coast.
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If you're wondering how chaotic a group of self-governing children can get, they nearly mistake a bar of soap for a stick of butter while cooking.
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A quality education was not available in Myanmar's self-governing Wa region, where young boys can be in danger of getting dragooned into the local guerrilla force.
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Those words, a 'united Russia,' were a slogan of the counterrevolutionaries, coined in reaction to Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who wished to establish new, self-governing republics.
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Amid those and other recent setbacks — blamed on pressure from China, which claims the self-governing island as its territory — has come a welcome bit of recognition.
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The new weaponry -- the largest US sale to Taiwan in several years -- could further erode ties, since Beijing views the self-governing island as part of China.
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The self-governing island of Taiwan said on Tuesday that it will implement entry restrictions for foreign nationals who have been to mainland China starting on Friday.
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More than 2350,0003 miles from France and its struggles with terrorism and cultural identity, the islands are a self-governing "overseas collectivity" bound by the French Constitution.
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China has for years waged much the same battle over Taiwan, insisting that the self-governing island be shown as part of the People's Republic of China.
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The National Judicial Council, a self-governing panel of judges, cleared Gyorgy Barna Senyei for the nine-year post which oversees appointments of judges and court operations.
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" Netanyahu said he answered that he would like to see the Palestinians be self governing in a demilitarized state with "none of the powers to threaten us.
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Hando frequently clashed with the self-governing panel of judges, the National Judicial Council, which accused her of abusing her power over the appointment of new judges.
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The community is self-governing, relying primarily on social pressure to enforce the established core norms, according to co-author Simon DeDeo, a complexity scientist at Indiana University.
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From today on, Britain will begin to extricate herself from the European monolith and regain lost self-governing authority, rather than ceding decision-making ability to Brussels bureaucrats.
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Maintaining both the external sovereignty of a powerful state and the internal liberty of its citizens in self-governing, smaller states is the federalist design of our Constitution.
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This allows the company not to suffer through the regulatory overhead, making its first baby steps as a self-governing entity that gets to decide on its future.
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One of their biggest successes is SmartICE, a program in Pond Inlet and Nain, Nunatsiavut (the self-governing Inuit region in Newfoundland and Labrador, on Canada's East coast).
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The law patched together provisions reflecting the island's status as a self-governing United States territory and parts of Chapter 9, the federal bankruptcy code covering local governments.
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The Senate in the wealthy, self-governing British territory voted 8 to 3 in favor of a new law to allow only domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
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To demonstrate American support for Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its territory, Mr. Mattis dispatched warships to the Taiwan Strait three times this year.
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That has weakened American warnings about doing business with China and demands that Guatemala and Honduras continue to recognize the self-governing island of Taiwan rather than China.
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We are a self-governing nation, and we all play a role in that enterprise by fulfilling the roles that define us — father, mother, neighbor, citizen and legislator.
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The new weaponry -- the largest US sale to Taiwan in years -- could further erode ties with Beijing, as it views the self-governing island as part of China.
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And if one place stands to benefit from Hong Kong's troubles, it is that other self-governing, Chinese-majority, financial, commercial and shipping hub in East Asia: Singapore.
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There are now five countries — Germany, Japan, Vietnam, China and the United States — that have had human-to-human transmission, as has the self-governing island of Taiwan.
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But the country has risen into their good graces after deciding to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan, a self-governing island that China regards as a breakaway province.
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But in 19673, as Britain was continuing to dispense with the remnants of empire, it incorporated Anguilla in a largely self-governing federation with St. Kitts and Nevis.
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Beijing leaders are already deeply upset about recent congressional approval of the Taiwan Travel Act, which urged Mr. Trump to send administration officials to the self-governing island.
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Daniel Froschauer, chairman of the self-governing Vienna Philharmonic and one of its first violinists, said he kept a close eye on auditions at the Vienna State Opera.
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Mr. Hollande met with Mr. Abadi and President Fuad Masum, and later traveled to the self-governing northern Kurdish region to meet with French troops and local officials.
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China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, who it thinks wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province.
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She has since rebounded in popularity ratings by taking a tough stance against China, which has ratcheted up pressure on the self-governing island to reunite with the mainland.
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Attracting such firms is seen as one way of bolstering the self-governing territory's thriving financial services industry after the UK, along with Gibraltar, leave the EU in 2019.
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" It adds: "With a view to implementing the measures provided for in the foregoing paragraph, the government may issue instructions to all the authorities of the self-governing communities.
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The shirt featured a map of China that leaves out the self-governing nation of Taiwan and also a region China calls "Southern Tibet," in the region bordering India.
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Russia bitterly opposes the move to grant the Ukrainian Church autocephalous, or self-governing, status, comparing it to the Great Schism of 1054 that divided western and eastern Christianity.
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The self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom, home to about 35,802 people, was one of 30 countries blacklisted as a tax haven by the EU in 2015.
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Even though China and Kenya do not have an extradition treaty, Kenya has no diplomatic relations with Taiwan, a self-governing island that China considers part of its territory.
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But when the couple broke up and left the shared house in 2017, a core of residents stayed, renamed the house and worked out a sustainable self-governing structure.
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There were flags from many countries, but the local government painted over those from Taiwan to avoid offending Beijing, which says the self-governing island is part of China.
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Called Itu Aba, it is occupied not by China, which has aggressively asserted its territorial claims in the sea, but by its archrival, the self-governing democracy of Taiwan.
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Many people in Taiwan, a self-governing island with a lively democracy, view the Chinese government with deep suspicion and see the demonstrators in Hong Kong as kindred spirits.
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The dominant Kurdish groups in northern Syria have carved out self-governing regions since early in the civil war, but they say they are not seeking independence from Damascus.
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Anastasiades and Akinci are both moderates leading their respective communities and the negotiations were directed towards reuniting Cyprus as a loose federation of two constituent, largely self-governing states.
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Killip was born in 21980 in his father's pub on the Isle of Man, a self-governing and fiercely independent island in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland.
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"Each person is 100% accountable and 100% autonomous, which means I am self-governing and independent," said Jody Thompson, principal of CultureRx, who also helped create the concept of ROWE.
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More recently, Chinese nationalists have besieged the social media accounts of Western companies that labeled Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing considers a breakaway region, and Tibet as countries.
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"I strongly oppose the notion [of] new administrative powers, that goes against the process of self-governing and actually the process of the board," he said during the House hearing.
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Now, after a vigorous debate, Oriel College, one of 38 largely self-governing colleges at Oxford, has decided it will keep the monument to its famous, if divisive, former student.
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Taiwan is already excluded from the United Nations and other major international organizations, and China has been steadily poaching away the self-governing island&aposs dwindling number of diplomatic partners.
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But, as if they occupied a self-governing amusement park, they were exempt from civil and church authorities' attempts to stamp out cards as the "picture books of the devil".
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Far Cry has always been a sandbox-first game, where the vast, freely explorable world is driven by self-governing systems that are meant to make the world feel alive.
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But the FCO said it did not plan to impose same-sex marriage laws on other British Overseas Territories, which are self-governing jurisdictions with their own democratically elected representatives.
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The Founders envisioned a self-governing system that would instill public confidence, so that elected representatives would be revered and others would strive to be like them — honest and trustworthy.
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As part of its "One China Policy," Washington does not formally recognize self-governing Taiwan as an independent country and therefore the US does not have an official embassy there.
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And are not the big American cities today, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles in particular, actually pretty well self-governing in these 240 some years since the American Revolution?
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The area was an abandoned military base in 1971 when squatters broke down the barricades and occupied 84 acres of land, declaring "a self-governing society" of artists and freethinkers.
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As part of its "One China Policy," Washington does not formally recognize self-governing Taiwan as an independent country, and therefore the US does not have an official embassy there.
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The crossing was closed as Syrian Kurdish and other groups met to approve plans to deepen their autonomy in northern Syria by establishing a new confederation of self-governing regions.
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Under the bill, the United States would work to support the military strength of Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing considers a part of the People's Republic of China.
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First reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the video purportedly was recorded during a ceremony in May at the Al-Hoda preschool in the self-governing Palestinian territory.
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By implication I blame everyone who knows in his bones that things are being done wrong and won't trust himself enough to act like the citizen of a self-governing country.
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BEIJING – China says military exercises around Taiwan are intended as a direct threat to the self-governing island&aposs government over moves Beijing sees as cementing its independence from the mainland.
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Burkina Faso&aposs decision was the latest blow to Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory and has been trying to isolate on the global stage.
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Ironically, a mere 0003 hours after the talks concluded, Greenland, a self-governing part of Denmark, said it wanted to opt out of the climate agreement that had just been reached.
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Seeking to prevent Ukraine's separation, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has written to all the self-governing Orthodox Churches calling for talks about the situation in Ukraine.
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With its open-air marijuana stalls festooned in psychedelic colors and its freewheeling, self-governing structure, the Christiania neighborhood in Copenhagen has been for decades emblematic of Danish liberalism and tolerance.
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All of the country's self-governing cantons also voted against in the poll, which needed a majority from Switzerland's 26 cantons as well as a simple majority of voters to succeed.
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The Trump administration also recently approved a major arms sale to Taiwan, a move that was strongly protested by Beijing, which sees the democratic self-governing island as a renegade province.
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Many scholars say it also helped lay the foundation for the self-governing island's evolution into a vibrant democracy by fostering a political culture committed to equality, civility and social progress.
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The result grants the Sidama, who represent about 4% of Ethiopia's 105 million population, their own self-governing region - the country's 10th, control over local taxes, education, security and certain legislation.
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Even in these partisan times, all lovers of freedom can surely come together on the principle that self-governing institutions should be left alone to govern themselves free of state interference.
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James Cook, the British explorer who visited the South Pacific area in the mid-603s, became a self-governing territory in 1965 and has sought to rename itself several times since.
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While not the West Bank's largest city — that is Hebron — it is the de-facto capital for the Palestinian National Authority, the self-governing administrative body that runs the West Bank.
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The self-governing state has been at war with neighboring Israel for around 100 years, a seemingly intractable deadlock where violence and bombings flare up more or less every couple of years.
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Mr Renzi's plan would not affect the five original self-governing regions, but claw back to Rome several of the most important responsibilities of the others, notably infrastructure projects and energy networks.
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Panama and China opened diplomatic ties in 2017, after the isthmus nation famous for its shipping canal cut its alliance with Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers a renegade province.
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Beijing is also suspicious of U.S. intentions toward self-governing and democratic Taiwan, which is armed by the United States, though China views the island as a sacred part of its territory.
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Patel went to most of the self-governing princely states — then more than 500 in number — that had been released by the British and convinced almost all to join an independent India.
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Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which has a single, undisputed leader in the pope, the Orthodox or Eastern branch of Christianity is divided into self-governing provinces, each with its own leadership.
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Subsequent U.N. agreements clarified that there was to be no interference in other states, although colonies and other non-self-governing territories had a distinct status and a right to self-determination.
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The Chinese leadership has quashed hopes for democratic governance in Hong Kong, a self-governing Chinese territory, and bullied South Korea for hosting a missile-defense system supplied by the United States.
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The document also refused to rule out the use of force against Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, in the event the self-governing island took any formal steps toward independence.
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The Prague-Taipei agreement was a snub to China, which considers the self-governing island of Taiwan as part of its territory and comes down hard on any suggestions to the contrary.
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As part of its "One China Policy," the United States does not formally recognize self-governing Taiwan as an independent country and therefore the US does not have an official embassy there.
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A five-hour rally, march and concert in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, drew thousands, the largest public show of support on the self-governing island for this year's Hong Kong's protest movement.
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"The testing which we have agreed on with self-governing organisations regarding splitting investors to 'qualified' and 'non-qualified' will be a natural barrier against ... emotional purchases," he told a news conference.
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Guam is one of 17 non-self-governing territories recognized by the United Nations, but it's in the middle of a plebiscite concerning the island's status in relation to the United States.
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When Swan asked Kushner whether he believed Palestinians were capable of self-governing without interference from Israel, Kushner didn't answer the question directly, and seemed to make the end goal about foreign investment.
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Four people made use of the law in the nine months before Australia's federal government overturned it and passed a law to prevent Australia's three self-governing territories from legislating on the matter.
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"We seek a new and equal partnership, between an independent, self-governing, global Britain and our friends and allies in the EU," May will say, according to advance extracts released by her office.
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He says this will involve bishops being selected, in practice, by the Chinese government, endorsed by some notionally self-governing procedure, and then only at the final stage subject to veto from Rome.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - A generation ago, from mid-1995 into early 1996, China lobbed missiles in the waters around Taiwan as the self-governing island prepared to hold its first fully democratic presidential election.
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Image 2 of 2 TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan on Thursday denounced China&aposs latest moves to increase its global isolation, saying residents of the self-governing island would reject attempts to deny its existence.
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The self-governing British Crown dependency currently only allows abortion in limited circumstances - for example where the mother's life is in danger - forcing many women to travel to Britain for costly private terminations.
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Should they succeed, it would spell the end of a relatively free Kurdish self-governing region in northern Iraq, a mass exodus of Middle-East Christians, and the death of an independent Iraq.
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Nor can China afford to stoke further unrest, which makes Hong Kong less attractive for investment and sends an ominous signal to Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing considers a renegade province.
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Poroshenko's comments came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, home to the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, announced it had drafted a constitutional charter for an "autocephalous", or self-governing, Ukrainian church.
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Such measures, plus an anti-corruption crackdown that began in early 2014, has dealt a blow to Macau, the self-governing Chinese territory linked by a thread to the mainland province of Guangdong.
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For Beijing, better relations with the Holy See could improve its international standing and ultimately pry the Vatican away from the self-governing island of Taiwan, which China views as a renegade province.
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When the tolls were abolished with the federation of six self-governing colonies that united under the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, the town, which sits on the Diamantina River, fell into decline.
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Kurdish aspirations will also come up against an implacable Turkey, which regards a self-governing Kurdish region across its southern border, and controlled by the P.K.K., as nothing short of an existential threat.
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They often describe their revolution as "the project" or "the experiment," the implementation of local self-governing democracy, freedom and equality for women and a socialist system inspired by anarchist and Marxist philosophies.
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"Rojava" is about an idealistic student who sets off for the Kurdish self-governing region in northern Syria that the play is named after, to create a utopia alongside the local freedom fighters.
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But last month, after the first plane carrying evacuees landed in Taiwan with an infected passenger onboard, a backlash ensued on the self-governing island, which China claims as part of its territory.
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Voters chose Tsai's tough stance against China over Han's arguments for friendlier ties with Beijing, which considers self-governing Taiwan a renegade province to be brought under its control, by force if necessary.
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For China's leaders, self-governing Taiwan, which they regard as a part of Chinese territory, offers a cautionary tale about the political dangers that can arise from environmental protests in a single city.
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For China's leaders, self-governing Taiwan, which they regard as a part of Chinese territory, offers a cautionary tale about the political dangers that can arise from environmental protests in a single city.
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It is highly unusual, probably unprecedented, for a U.S. president or president-elect to speak directly with a leader of Taiwan, a self-governing island the U.S. broke diplomatic ties with in 1979.
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Across a couple of days, we talked about unplugging, records as gateways, the possibility of a self-governing quiet place for listening, the depressingly appeasing quality of algorithmic choices, the stimulation of curiosity.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia said Monday that it has ended direct aid to the Palestinian Authority because Australian donations could increase the self-governing body&aposs capacity to pay Palestinians convicted of politically motivated violence.
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Since February, Ms. Huang, who also goes by Sophia, had been traveling to Taiwan, a self-governing island, and Hong Kong, where she had planned to attend law school in September, her friends said.
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Johnson said May had deviated from a Brexit stance she set out in a speech in January 2017 for a "strong independent, self-governing Britain" with a focus on having independent trade and regulation.
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The article has immense legal power because of how vague it is, allowing the Spanish government to "take all measures necessary to compel" any "self-governing community" to fulfill the "general interest" of Spain.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church wants to become fully self-governing, or autocephalous, and has sought the support of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of the world's roughly 250 million Orthodox Christians.
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Their disappearance sparked mass protests in Hong Kong, particularly after allegations that one of them, Lee Bo, was abducted by Chinese police, who are not allowed to operate in the partially self-governing city.
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He reviewed work by political scientists showing that self-governing communities and democracies rely heavily on conversation, informal norms and local conflict resolution procedures to manage their affairs with minimal appeal to higher authorities.
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He said the jokes had touched on drugs, childbirth and blind dating — and one of the most politically sensitive subjects in China, Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers part of its territory.
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The president sparked anger among Chinese following his election when he broke with decades by talking on the phone with the president of Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that Beijing considers its own territory.
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China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, and thinks she wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province ineligible for state-to-state relations.
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China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, who it thinks wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province, ineligible for state-to-state relations.
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Greenland, which is gaining attention from world powers including China, Russia and the United States because of its strategic location and mineral wealth, is self-governing but underdeveloped and relies on Denmark for economic support.
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Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Rojava's predominantly Kurdish population of around 3-4 million has effected a bottom-up transformation of society into a direct democracy, organized into three self-governing, Swiss-style cantons.
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Greenland, once a colony of Denmark, became a formal territory of the Nordic kingdom in 1953 and was granted broad self-governing autonomy, excluding only foreign affairs and defense, under legislation passed a decade ago.
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The charge of a president's collusion with a foreign power goes to the heart of the people's ability to trust the institutions that serve them, and hence of their ability to be truly self-governing.
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Earlier this month Xi called on Taiwan to reject independence and embrace "peaceful reunification" with China in a conciliatory speech that nevertheless took a hard line on the self-governing island's political sovereignty and freedoms.
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The islands, which fell under Danish rule in the fourteenth century, became self-governing in 1948, but the relationship between the two countries remains that of a resentful subaltern state and a condescending colonial power.
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But while Palestinians may prefer Gantz to Netanyahu, there is little fondness for him after two wars in the Gaza Strip, a self-governing Palestinian enclave, while Gantz was in charge of the Israeli military.
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HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Sidama people have voted overwhelmingly to form their own self-governing region as many of the country's ethnic groups demand greater autonomy under sweeping reforms led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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Taiwan has called the move a provocation aimed putting additional pressure on the administration of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, whose party has advocated independence for Taiwan, a self-governing island of 23 million residents.
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The Russian Orthodox Church's Holy Synod ruling body convened on Friday to consider how to respond as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has courted Constantinople to formally make it a self-governing body independent of Moscow.
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Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed the creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem, dependent on Palestinians taking steps to become self-governing, in an attempt to achieve a peace breakthrough.
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The island - a self-governing territory that is under British sovereignty - previously only allowed abortion in limited circumstances, such as where the woman's life was in danger, forcing many to go to Britain for private terminations.
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In an effort to meet an EU deadline, the self-governing island passed legislation in December that obliges companies domiciled in Bermuda to have a "substantial economic presence," granting some firms a grace period for implementation.
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Unlike the Catholic Church, which has a single, undisputed leader, the pope in Rome, the Orthodox or Eastern branch of Christianity is divided into more than a dozen self-governing provinces, each with its own patriarch.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to reject independence and embrace "peaceful reunification" with China, in a conciliatory speech that nevertheless took a hard line on the self-governing island's political sovereignty and freedoms.
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In recent years, however, as Beijing has tightened its grip on the former colony, Hong Kong has been increasingly supplanted by Taiwan, a self-governing island that has emerged as one of Asia's most vibrant democracies.
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The area was neglected until it was taken over by residents in 1971, first as a playground and then as the base of Freetown, an experimental anarchist community that proclaimed itself self-governing and self-sufficient.
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The surprise announcement left many in the village seemingly unsure how to respond, as if they hadn't yet received direction from the Palestinian Authority, the self-governing body with limited powers that provides some services here.
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Tsai's comfortable victory caps a remarkable comeback after devastating local election results in 2018 saw her step down as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party following its crushing defeat in races across the self-governing island.
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But Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's president, in a Tuesday Facebook post lauded the Hong Kong protesters and criticized the proposal, saying the self-governing island would not accept the accused man's extradition under the proposed legal change.
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Widely considered "the last colony in Africa," the Western Sahara has been categorized as a "non-self-governing territory" by the United Nations since 1963, listed alongside Guam and the Falkland Islands as remnants of European imperialism.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch, currently Bartholomew, does not wield the power enjoyed by the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church but is traditionally regarded as the 'first among equals' among the patriarchs of the self-governing Orthodox churches.
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Turkey fears the Syrian Kurds carving out a self-governing territory analogous to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, a move that might embolden Turkey's own large Kurdish minority to try to forge a similar territory inside its borders.
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Six other places in the Pacific are included on the United Nation's list of Non-Self-Governing Territories along with New Caledonia: American Samoa, French Polynesia, Guam (US territory), Pitcairn (British territory) and Tokelau (New Zealand territory).
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He says that the outstanding Semitic race that had produced the proletarian messiah Karl Marx is being expelled by the Fascist bourgeoisie of Germany, while the Soviet Union has established a self-governing republic for working Jews.
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BEIJING — Burkina Faso and China formally established diplomatic ties on Saturday, days after the West African nation broke off relations with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing has been trying to isolate on the global stage.
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The archipelago located between Scotland and Iceland in the north Atlantic and self-governing since 1948 already competes as a soccer nation after being recognised by governing body FIFA, and has competed at the Paralympics since 1984.
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Now, if the guards find there's some usurpation of the self-governing society from the dark side or an emperor, we might not object so much if the guards are worried about that; that might be okay.
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Deputy regional governor Igor Guskov told reporters Saturday that members of the academy of the self-governing militia would take part in horseback patrols along the Don River, but weren&apost strictly given the responsibility of providing security.
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Norfolk Islanders, thousands of kilometers off Australia's east coast, will be voting in their first federal election, an AEC spokesman said, after a law absorbing the previously self-governing territory into the Australian federation took effect on Friday.
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And whoever is elected president – in 2020 and beyond – will need these types of patriotic, caring Americans to help bring our nation back to its senses, back to a self-governing society that values achievements above screaming matches.
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Ever since last summer's gathering of bishops on Crete, attended by 10 of the world's 14 self-governing Orthodox churches, there have been furious squabbles over whether the council's conclusions were too friendly to Catholics and other Christians.
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The outfit inspiration continued on the catwalk, too, with guests venturing to shows in locations both historical (the majestic courtyard of Charlottenborg Palace) and of-the-moment (an isolated warehouse just outside the self-governing free town Christiania).
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Through subsequent civil war, with sectarian rival elites looting the state, that majority has failed to build cohesion around the power-sharing with the Sunni Arabs and self-governing Kurdish minority decreed by a 2003 post-war constitution.
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However, African support for Western Sahara - which the United Nations defines as a non-self-governing territory - has ebbed as the importance of Morocco's $110 billion economy, Africa's fifth largest, as a trade and investment partner has grown.
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Some Sunni and Kurdish leaders believe one solution is to make Mosul a self-governing region like Kurdistan, with smaller units of self-rule to accommodate the plethora of minorities, which they say is permitted by the constitution.
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On Wednesday, Awol's Sidama people will vote in a referendum on whether to form their own self-governing region in southern Ethiopia, as sweeping reforms under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have emboldened ethnic groups to demand more rights.
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"It's hard to see how you can go down that route without at some stage divesting yourself of a semblance of a self-governing authority," said Daniel Levy, the London-based president of the U.S./Middle East Project.
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The Kurds administer justice and carry out many government functions, but as a matter of international law the region is still part of Syria — albeit a self-governing one — and not recognized by France or any other country.
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The state has seen its population decline over the past three years and its structure, with no county governments, forces many of its 169 self-governing cities and towns to vie for state aid to supplement property taxes.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that it would temporarily stop issuing individual travel permits to Taiwan, a move that appears intended to influence the politics of the self-governing island ahead of a coming election.
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One benefit of reconciliation for the Chinese government may be that the Vatican eventually decides to establish diplomatic relations with Beijing and cut formal ties with Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers part of its territory.
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Disappearing booksellers The disappearance of the five Hong Kong booksellers sparked mass protests, particularly after allegations that one of them, Lee Bo, was abducted by Chinese police, who are not allowed to operate in the partially self-governing city.
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LEGAL OBSTACLES TO SALE Greenland, once a colony of Denmark, became a formal territory of the Nordic kingdom in 1953 and was granted broad self-governing autonomy, excluding only foreign affairs and defence, under legislation passed a decade ago.
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Turkey's aim was also to stop the YPG from crossing the Euphrates westwards and linking three mainly Kurdish cantons it holds in northern Syria, preventing it from carving out a self-governing territory analogous to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
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As Montesquieu argued in "The Spirit of the Laws," a text the American founders revered, a free society is defined by robust self-governing institutions that regulate themselves under the law and pursue their objectives without interference from government.
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Three entrants died during the 2017 edition of the TT. The Isle of Man is a self-governing crown dependency of the U.K. Considered a tax haven, it is famous for having no speed limits on many of its winding roads.
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BEIJING – A ruling Chinese Communist Party newspaper on Monday denounced the passage of a pair of U.S. Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait as a "psychological game," as the two sides square off over trade and relations with self-governing Taiwan.
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China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, who it thinks wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province to be brought back under its control by force if necessary.
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The lack of consistency in disclosure across platforms, indecision over issue ads, and inaction on wider digital deception issues including fake and automated accounts, harmful micro-targeting, and the exposure of user data are major defects of this self-governing model.
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Polisario chief negotiator Mohamed Khadad said they had filed the case based on the Western Sahara's status defined by the U.N. as a non-self governing territory, to protect its natural resources, and also based on the EU court decision.
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The aim is to cement the autonomy of areas of northern Syria where Kurdish groups have already carved out self-governing regions since the start of the war in 2011, though Kurdish leaders say an independent state is not the goal.
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Few things are more likely to rile up Chinese leaders than talk of separatism, be it in Hong Kong, Tibet or Taiwan -- a self-governing island that has been de facto independent for decades but is still claimed by Beijing.
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Those disappearances provoked outrage that Beijing was flouting Hong Kong's constitution, which gives Chinese authorities no right to conduct law enforcement activities in the city, a largely self-governing territory since its return to China from British rule in 1997.
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Three years later, some opposition lawmakers say the release of the Panama Papers show that the battle is far from won and are demanding that the British leader stamp British control over its overseas territories, most of which are self-governing.
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Some of the territories, which have their own constitutions and parliaments, have other ideas The Foreign Affairs Committee document, "Global Britain and the British Overseas Territories: Resetting the Relationship", strikes a rare interventionist tone for the 14 self-governing jurisdictions.
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At WIRED25, Wojcicki ran through her mnemonic TRICK—Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, Kindness—which can equip kids with the mental, moral, and emotional stability necessary to become a self-governing adult who can come up with clever solutions to problems.
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Virginia, ground zero for the start of representative government and America's founding, will again be the locus of vital discussions about the capacity of free women and men to engage productively as members of a diverse yet unified self-governing community.
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Even in self-governing parts of the Pacific, there are movements to break colonial ties once and for all, with Australia, which still recognizes the UK's Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, seeing a surge in pro-republican sentiment.
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It also said it had grounds to suspect that the loan arrangements had involved Banks' Rock Holding Limited, which was incorporated in the Isle of Man, a self-governing British crown dependency that is not part of the United Kingdom.
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The big picture: China is chipping away at Taipei's legitimacy on the international stage by pressuring companies and foreign countries to stop treating the self-governing island as a sovereign nation — and Beijing has the economic leverage to pull it off.
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The move is a victory for Beijing, which considers the self-governing island of Taiwan a part of China's territory and has been outraged by suggestions by President-elect Donald J. Trump that he could rethink American policy that acknowledges this.
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New Zealand gave all women the right to vote in 1893, the first self-governing country in the world to do so, and its prime minister, Jacinda Ardern — currently on parental leave — is the third woman to hold the job.
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Like many of Mr. Johnston's books, "First Snow, Last Light," his latest work, partly takes place in 1949 when Newfoundland, after two closely contested votes, decided to become a province of Canada rather than remain a self-governing British colony.
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" Gao hailed Trump's affirmation of the policy – under which self-governing Taiwan is recognized as part of the same Chinese nation as the mainland – as a "landmark shift" in his position toward China, "especially against all the noises (he) has created.
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Beijing, however, has also contributed to the changed mood with its more blatant efforts to pressure Taiwan, a self-governing democracy of 23 million people that China views as a breakaway province even though it has never been under Communist rule.
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In that spirit, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on a Chinese state military company for buying weapons from Russia, and announced sales of $330 million in military equipment to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that Beijing claims as its own.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The West African nation of Burkina Faso announced on Thursday that it was ending official diplomatic relations with Taiwan's government, a new challenge to the self-governing democracy as Beijing increasingly tries to isolate it on the global stage.
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China recently warned 36 airlines to change their online booking systems to refer to Taiwan as part of China, even though the island is a self-governing democracy that has never been under the control of the Communist government in Beijing.
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Women entering the workforce and becoming financially independent of men challenged entrenched patriarchal policies, and African Americans entering the marketplace, availing themselves of public institutions, and slowly beginning to become financially self-governing clashed with the nation's deeply embedded racism.
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Independent agencies, unlike their other executive branch counterparts such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, and so on, are so named because they were created with a modicum of self-governing authority that, allegedly, resists the pull of politics.
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After Hurricane Katrina dislodged those vested interests and ended their power, formerly timid policymakers chose bold change, replacing traditional public schools with self-governing charter schools that close unless parents choose to trust them with their kids — much like private schools.
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Some have argued that the absence of a strong minority party in the Galactic Senate and the significant influence of the Jedi order — an unaccountable, self-governing sect of warrior monks — paved the way for the downfall of the Old Republic.
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Lee's removal, which came after the disappearance of four of his colleagues, sparked outrage in Hong Kong and internationally over fears he was taken against his will by Chinese law enforcement agents, who aren't permitted to act in the self-governing city.
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" From 1960 to 1972, Hong Kong was listed alongside other colonies and territories such as Fiji and Kenya as a "non-self-governing territory" in which all steps should be taken "in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.
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In plain English, the article means that if a self-governing community, like Catalonia, has acted in any way to undermine the interests of Spain, the national government will "take all measures necessary" to force it to meet its obligations to the state.
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"But, in the space of 22 years, the 'happy family' picture that we portrayed to the world is fading," said Ruga, who was born in the self-governing territory the Republic of Transkei and currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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Planted in Virginia a year before the Mayflower arrived from England, representative government would take root firmly, blossom in 13 largely self-governing colonies, and after independence grow into the great tree of American liberty, inspiring similar plantings in much of the world.
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Taiwan drills announced In a foreshadowing of future drills, the Fujian provincial maritime authority on Thursday announced live-fire naval exercises for April 18 in the Taiwan Strait, the first Chinese naval exercise in waters off the self governing island since September 2015.
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The self-governing nation of 15 islands and home to around 17,000 people wants a name in the Cook Islands Maori language - and it has 64 possibilities so far, including Rangiaroa, or "Love from the Heavens", and Raroatua, meaning "We Stand Under God".
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Liu Jieyi, the director of Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, used his speech at the ceremony on the island to demand that self-governing, democratic Taiwan accept the "One China" policy, which declares that Taiwan and China are part of the same country.
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But as Greenland is now self-governing specifically because its mostly Inuit population doesn't want to be a colony of Denmark, the idea that Greenland's government would want to join the United States in exchange for money seems kind of far-fetched.
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The prospect of remaking Iraq following the 2003 United States invasion brought Mr. Talabani and Mr. Barzani together in the job of writing a constitution that ensured the continuation of a self-governing Kurdistan and of a prominent Kurdish role in Baghdad.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — In very different ways on Wednesday, citizens of Taiwan used an important holiday to call for the 23 million people of this self-governing island — which Beijing claims as its territory — to have a greater say in their political identity.
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K, which is located in a left-wing project house known as "Reiche 63a," part of a collective run by the Self-Governing Comradeship of East Berlin, where police reportedly seized evidence including data carriers, as well as illegal weapons and guns.
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Many of the neighborhoods in Black Florida have distinctly black histories: Perrine, once incorporated, elected a black mayor (the all-white city council then moved to dissolve the city), and Eatonville was one of the first self-governing all-black municipalities in the country.
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Schools, hospitals, shops, banks and even mosques have started to install panels on their roofs across the Gaza Strip, a self-governing Palestinian enclave which suffered considerable damage in 2014 during a seven-week war between Israel and Palestinian armed groups based in the territory.
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The Toyota system (which divided workers into self-governing teams and gave them responsibility for a wide range of tasks) outperformed the Taylorist mass-production system (which treated workers as widgets) because it allowed companies to combine quality and variety with quantity and predictability.
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Cossacks are an East Slavic-speaking minority group, traditionally from southern Russia and southeastern Ukraine, and the camp catered to parents who wanted their offspring raised according to Cossack military tradition: self-governing, self-sufficient, and willing to defend their homeland with violence if necessary.
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It left unanswered the most basic human ambitions: to be autonomous and self-governing, to belong, to live a meaningful life, to be part of a creative community, to be proud, to enjoy a feeling (or an illusion) of stability and cross-generational continuity.
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HONG KONG — Three leaders of Hong Kong's huge student-led demonstrations in 2014 were found guilty on Thursday of charges stemming from their roles in events that set off 79 days of defiant street protests for freer elections in the self-governing Chinese territory.
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In January, authorities at Oriel, one of 21997 self-governing colleges at Oxford, conceded that a plaque near the statue, which commemorates "the great services rendered by Cecil Rhodes to his country" was an imperfect way to memorialize a man who for many symbolizes oppression.
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There is no indication of any involvement by Beijing in the project, but some Vietnamese have focused on the presence of mainland Chinese workers there and have blurred the distinction between China and Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as Chinese territory.
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For now, the most powerful military in the region is still that of the United States, which relies on the ability to have unfettered naval access to the South China Sea and the support of the self-governing island of Taiwan to bolster its standing.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The United States unveiled its unofficial embassy in Taiwan's capital on Tuesday, holding a low-key ceremony that signaled its support for the self-governing island while also trying to avoid a bigger clash with China, which claims Taiwan as its territory.
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Even as news of the canceled port call became public, China's foreign ministry strongly denounced the Trump administration's announcement of a new sale of $330 million in military equipment to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy that Beijing claims as part of a united China.
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They also argue that this is desirable — that blockchain visionaries looking to free people from the hegemony of governments and corporations "could wind up surrendering themselves (and others) to the whims of a much more powerful enemy": namely, the self-governing code of blockchain itself.
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Patel, who orchestrated the annexation of self-governing "princely states", fits better with the muscular nationalism of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party than more famous heroes of independence, such as Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, who stood for wishy-washy virtues such as peace and tolerance.
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Some 2.8 million registered voters in two Muslim-majority areas of Mindanao, the country's southernmost region, have been asked if they support a law to create a self-governing area called Bangsamoro, essentially an upgrade and expansion of an existing autonomous setup largely seen as ineffective.
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In a further embarrassment to Mr. Cameron, who has claimed leadership in the global fight to crack down on tax havens, the documents also reveal that Britain's self-governing overseas territories, especially the British Virgin Islands, proved a favored location for companies handled by Mossack Fonseca.
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"We seek a new and equal partnership – between an independent, self-governing, Global Britain and our friends and allies in the EU. Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out," said May.
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Few people with long-term knowledge have held hope for a viable peace process, as opposed to continuing one-sided efforts to force Palestinians to acquiesce to a neutered, Swiss-cheese, quasi-self-governing entity nowhere near close to the normal, independent nation-state they wish.
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China considers Taiwan to be a renegade province, while the self-governing island Ms. Tsai leads traces its roots to the formation of the Republic of China in 1911 that overthrew the last Chinese dynasty, only to lose the Chinese civil war to the Communists in 1949.
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Amid growing tension over trade and Chinese suspicion of U.S. intentions toward self-governing Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping in June told U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that China was committed to peace but would not yield "even one inch" of territory handed down by its ancestors.
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This was seen as very plausibly a prelude to war, and constituted one of the motivations for the passage of the British North America Act of 1867 that for the first time created the self-governing Dominion of Canada, comprising Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
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Unlike so many others, he never fell for the idea that deficits don't matter, and correctly concludes that Reagan did not demand hard choices from self-governing citizens but instead promised them all the benefits of larger and larger government, without any of the fiscal costs.
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is expected to claim an easy victory, capping a remarkable comeback after devastating local election results in 2018 saw her step down as leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) following its crushing defeat in races across the self-governing island.
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Since 1978, the United States has recognized Beijing as China's sole government, breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan a year later, but Washington continues to have unofficial ties with Taiwan, sells weapons to the self-governing island, and has hinted it may defend Taiwan if it is attacked.
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The late Justice Antonin Scalia was fond of saying that it is not the bill of rights that guarantees our freedoms, because any banana republic can have a bill of rights; it is the separation of powers that protects us in a self-governing democracy from tyranny.
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With a 10-minute phone call and two tweets, Donald Trump inspired banner headlines and renewed hopes across Taiwan for a stronger partnership with the United States, while also inflaming the complex relationships between the U.S., mainland China, and the self-governing island China regards as a renegade province.
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James Miller: The answers range from the closed, self-governing community of ancient Athens, through the armed assertion of popular sovereignty in revolutionary Paris in 1792, to the rise in America of a commercial republic of free individuals, who shared a faith in the virtues of the common man.
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Further trillions in revenues over the next 10 years can be raised by orderly auctioning off of non-environmentally sensitive, excess federal land and properties in western states, where the federal government anachronistically holds far too much land in what are supposed to be sovereign, self-governing states.
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The paper said Apple has $128 billion in offshore profits not taxed by the U.S. By 2015, Apple had moved the tax home of two Irish subsidiaries to Jersey, a self-governing island in the English Channel, and also made Ireland the tax home of a different European subsidiary.
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"We see a new and equal partnership between an independent, self-governing, global Britain and our friends and allies in the EU. Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out," May said in a speech.
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The growing sense of Canada as a self-governing peer entity rather than a string of British colonies helped dissuade Americans from seeing it as territory worth gobbling up, and in the late 19th century, the US focused instead on seizing Spanish colonies and becoming an imperial power.
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But Club Magnus was essentially a self-governing entity, with the host happy to take to his bed for a few hours on a Monday evening and to come up smiling on Tuesday morning to carry on the party, safe in the knowledge that all would be well.
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The plan is like a road map to peace setting out a sequence of events that both sides need to enact — including the holding of free and fair elections in the Donbass region and for self-governing status to be granted if these are deemed to have taken place.
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Mr. Putin's precondition for traveling to Paris was that any negotiation start from what is known as "special self-governing status" for Russian-controlled territories once local elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are held and certified as valid by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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Not since Richard M. Nixon traveled to Beijing in 1972 to dangle the prospect of abandoning Taiwan has an American leader so explicitly attempted to use it as a bargaining chip with China, which considers the self-governing island of 23 million to be part of Chinese territory.
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While Air New Zealand said it was because the aircraft used on Saturday was "not yet certified to operate to China," New Zealand news site Stuff reported that it was because the airline had angered Beijing by listing the self-governing island of Taiwan as part of China.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch does not wield the power enjoyed by the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church but is traditionally regarded as the 'first among equals' among the patriarchs of the self-governing Orthodox churches and also as the spiritual leader of the roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.
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For the first time since the British people voted to leave the European Union, there now is a government in place, with an impressive majority, that is fit to carry out the goals of leaving: to break free from the influence of unelected bureaucrats and instead be self-governing once again.
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When US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, the conversation may have seemed routine, but it was a potentially devastating breakdown in the elaborate dance between China, the United States, and Taiwan that downplays the reality that Taiwan is, in fact, a self-governing democracy.
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The circumstances surrounding Mr. Lee's detainment remain murky, but what has made the case stand out from the many that the Chinese government brings against its critics is that Mr. Lee is not a citizen of China, but rather of Taiwan, the self-governing island over which Beijing claims sovereignty.
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The phone call last weekend from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan to President-elect Donald J. Trump — the first contact between a Taiwanese president and an American president or president-elect since at least 1979 — has received rare bipartisan support here on this self-governing island off southern China.
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First, there was the hotel chain Marriott International, which apologized to the Chinese government in January for having sent out a customer survey listing Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau and the self-governing island of Taiwan as separate territories, a violation of the Communist Party canon that raised the ire of some Chinese citizens.
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The Labour party leader says David Cameron's government should be able to ensure that British overseas territories and Crown dependencies follow UK tax law: "They are not independent territories, they are self-governing yes, but they are British crown dependent territories, therefore surely there has to be an observance of UK tax law in those places," he said.
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"Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation, and the end of our democratically elected parliament as the supreme law-making body in the United Kingdom," Tony Benn, the leading hard-left Labour Party figure of the '19883s and '80s (and Hilary Benn's father), wrote at the time.
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" Rosselló said that calling Puerto Rico self-governing "ignores that Congress often uses its plenary powers over the territory to impose a multitude of federal laws without the island residents having any voting representation in the U.S. Senate and only a single Resident Commissioner in the U.S. House of Representatives, who cannot vote on the floor of that chamber.
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" He also called for the return of Taiwan, a self-governing island, to mainland Chinese control, before delivering the line that won the loudest applause of his marathon speech: "We will never allow anyone, any organization, or any political party, at any time or in any form, to separate any part of Chinese territory from China.
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Former slaves on nearby St. Helena and Hilton Head Islands attended the Penn School established by Northern reformers, established religious services at Brick Baptist Church, created self-governing communities like Mitchelville on Hilton Head Island and served alongside Harriet Tubman in the nearby Combahee ferry raid, an 1863 foray into Confederate territory that liberated hundreds of slaves.
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In the 1920s, they joined other Northwest tribes to sue the federal government for lands lost; in the 20163s, even though they weren't considered eligible to participate, they voted to accept the Indian Reorganization Act, in which the government backed away from its assimilationist policies and instead encouraged tribes to be self-governing and self-sufficient.
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"We reviewed all the information available to us, as well as knowing what emergency equipment was on board, and have taken the difficult decision to end the search," David Barker, the harbormaster captain of the island of Guernsey, a self-governing British dependency off the coast of France, said in a statement posted by the police on Twitter.
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His upbringing, which included three years of schooling in Dresden, left him with a distrust of high finance (bankers playing with "other people's money", he scowled), a fondness for small business and a horror of chain stores that was at once rather Germanic and powerfully influenced by Thomas Jefferson's vision of America as a country of self-governing yeoman farmers.
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I find it so myself for, although public business is my main interest and I give most of my time to watching it, I cannot find time to do what is expected of me in the theory of democracy; that is, to know what is going on and to have an opinion worth expressing on every question which confronts a self-governing community.
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Mr. Mattis was supposed to begin his trip to Asia this week with a stop in Beijing for talks with Mr. Wei, but China canceled the visit, citing annoyance over sanctions Mr. Trump imposed on a Chinese state military company for buying weapons from Russia, and Washington's plans to sell $330 million in military equipment to Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own.
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The council, which includes a number of members who work at the intersection of AI and ethics, is Google's latest effort at self-governing the rapidly growing field of AI. While there's no national legislation specifically related to how AI can and can't be used, some companies such as Microsoft and Amazon are in favor of the passage of rules related to particular applications of AI (such as facial-recognition technology).
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