• "It is not discrimination, it is the right to set membership standards, " he said.

    BBC: Stevn Spielberg

  • Joey Robinson, a spokesman for the Scouts, defended its right to set its membership policies.

    BBC: Stevn Spielberg

  • The report argues that the Commonwealth should set tough membership criteria based on democracy and human-rights records.

    ECONOMIST: The Commonwealth

  • The club's transformation into a modern business over a decade ago is well set, as membership, sponsorship and branded clothing lines drive revenue with good reason.

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  • Finally, when local units are able to set their own membership standards, those organizations that withdrew funding -- most prominently, chapters of the United Way -- will be able to return that funding to Scouting units that embrace inclusion.

    CNN: Ban on gays hurts Scouting

  • The kuagro membership comes with a set of rights and duties towards other group members and entails strong internal solidarity.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • Though many retailers across the region, perhaps surprisingly, spy benefits in price transparency, the cross-border shopping boom, also maybe surprisingly, has not set off a public chorus for euro membership.

    ECONOMIST: Scandinavian shoppers

  • When Gordon Brown first set out the five tests for euro-membership in 1997, the Treasury expressed the hope that greater economic stability since achieved would tame the housing market.

    ECONOMIST: House prices

  • And while the South Americans may well agree to meet regularly, it is unlikely that they will make democracy a condition of membership of any new club they set up as it has been for Mercosur since 1996.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil��s foreign policy

  • Leeds' decision has come as a blow to the FA though they are not short of bids for founder membership of the new league, which is set to start next year.

    BBC: Leeds reject Super League plans

  • Whatever the Daily Telegraph says, Mr Hague's hyperbole about Mr Blair betraying 1, 000 years of history sounded silly when set against the Conservatives' own refusal to rule out membership of the euro one day.

    ECONOMIST: Not quite across the Rubicon

  • Turkey was accepted as a membership candidate in 1998, but no date has been set for its admission.

    BBC: Turkey's inflation woes

  • If the White House had announced at an early date that it would automatically veto any resolution calling for Palestinian U.N. membership and would end all U.S. financial and political support for the Palestinian Authority if it went through with its stated aim of applying for U.N. membership as a state, the Palestinians would likely have set aside their plans.

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  • They will discuss the current set-up of the network, priority activities, partnership development, membership and responsibilities.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN DAKAR

  • Voted into the academy's core membership were the novelist Ward Just, known for his stories set in Washington, D.

    WSJ: AP NewsBreak: Dylan voted into elite arts academy

  • For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.

    BBC: David Cameron speech: UK and the EU

  • The danger is that the EU will interpret the attempt to bring Mr Ganic to book as a sign that the bad old days of recalcitrant Serbian nationalist governments playing to domestic audiences and sticking two fingers up to the West are not entirely past and that the prospects of membership, which Mr Tadic says is a priority for his government, will be set back.

    ECONOMIST: Bosnia, Serbia and Europe

  • Iceland, it seemed, was set on a debt-laden but credible route to recovery and the ultimate goal of European Union membership.

    ECONOMIST: Worse: a ceremonial president wielding superpowers

  • That is why the economy and Turkey's hoped-for membership of the European Union, not the supposed dangers posed by Islamic radicals and separatist Kurds, are set to be the main electoral issues.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

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