The Conference recommended that regional governments consider harmonising policies and the legal and regulatory framework for the development of public service broadcasting which should be independent of direct political control.

UNESCO: Education

Another alternative is to simply transfer discounted minority stakes in the company to a trust over time, but in order to keep that stock out of your estate the trust must be independent, which raises the question of control.

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The evolutionary nature of cancer implies, contrary to conventional wisdom, that the essential features of any therapy for the consistent cure or control of cancer must be independent of the particular pathways of tumor cell evolution, and independent of any particular genetic or epigenetic alterations.

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The 2012 Presidential electorate should be more ideologically balanced, and the anger of independent voters may not be exclusively be targeted at Democrats now that Republicans control one house of Congress.

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For cost control to be effective, the professional autonomy and independent clinical judgment of the physician and other providers must in some measure be sacrificed to standardization.

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Another calls for legal aid to be administered by an independent director - preventing the justice secretary from taking direct control of the legal aid budget, which would allow him to block funding for particular kinds of action, such as clinical negligence, welfare claims or miscarriages of justice against the police.

BBC: Week ahead in Parliament

Tony Hare (Independent) is a former Conservative councillor who has been proud to be free of party control for many years.

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This election will test whether there is a political price to be paid for the economically impeccable decision to hand control of monetary policy to an independent central bank.

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