For centuries, there was little to no separation of church and state in the region.

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There is no separation of the really good stuff from the rest of the items on the sales rack.

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There was no separation between work and my personal life anymore.

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There is no effective separation between research, investment banking and trading in securities firms.

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But in France, there can be no such separation.

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W. Apple likened Mr. Carter to JFK in the way he persuaded skeptics that his faith was no threat to the separation of church and state.

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Even though President Obama is obviously no champion of constitutional separation of powers edicts, particularly as they relate to government executive and legislative branches, he may encounter some problems with this congressional circumvention strategy.

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Am I no longer entitled to some separation between who I am when I'm talking about technology rather than when I'm talking about my political beliefs, should I choose to separate those things?

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The separation of powers means that no one player holds all the cards.

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America's directly elected Senate, more powerful than the House of Representatives, probably holds few lessons for Britain because the United States has a directly elected president and thus full separation of powers, which no one is yet advocating in Britain.

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Americans United for the Separation of Church and State offered no immediate criticism of Ashcroft's appearance.

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This announcement has no impact on the single shifting actions or separation programme that was announced in February to take effect at shut down this year.

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But there is no longer such a thing as that kind of separation.

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As is also common with principles espoused by European leaders, no clear explanation has been provided for the need to ensure this operational separation between monetary policy and bank supervision.

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Even some agents who no longer get a slice of a player's investment pie acknowledge that the separation of powers is ultimately good for the client.

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