The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Then that curious true man's responsibility in Jewish tradition we talked about that both in terms of not wasting resources and in terms of not destroying natural areas that they are kind of independent from being resources.

这种人类的神秘的责任,在我们犹太教传统中被解读为,不要浪费资源,也不要破坏自然环境,自然并不生来就是资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If you follow through from the independent theory, there's one of the basic relations in probability theory-- it's called the binomial distribution.

如果继续往下看,在概率论里有一个基本的概念,叫做二项分布

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I think the position of providing a middle ground for President Bashir, not denying the ICC decision, but asking for it to be postponed, and giving Bashir some breathing space is a way for the regimes such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to indicate that they do have a position independent from the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

So this squared at the origin is going to be a very high probability, and it decays off as you get farther and farther away from the nucleus or from the center, and that's independent of the angle.

所以这个平方,在原点处非常高，随着离核子的距离,越来越远,它逐渐衰减，并且它和角度是没有关系的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"That is also crucial to allowing corporations a kind of independent personhood and separating ownership from control or ownership from management.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

From the first, Syracuse is an independent polis, autonomous, self- whatever regime it wants, etc.

首先锡拉库萨是一个独立自治的城邦,如,可以独立地决定政体

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For the study, an independent high school in Rhode Island delayed morning classes from eight o'clock to eighty-thirty.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But even some of them who'd learned language and who managed to get some sort of independent life, nevertheless will suffer from a severe social impairment.

但即便有些孤独症儿童掌握了语言,并且能够过上某种独立的生活,但却依然会受到严重社会障碍的困扰

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said this would change the United States from a united,national democracy to an alliance of independent states.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Independent voters helped elect President Obama but have since turned away from the Democrats.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

They start running ads. This is what they always do" But some objections are based on cost estimates from an independent agency, the Congressional Budget Office.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Fifty-two percent of those recently polled by the Independent newspaper support an immediate pull-out of British troops from Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

The Afghan Independent Election Commission says tallies from 2,400 polling stations in several provinces will be released Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Independent verification of the fighting is not possible because journalists are barred from the war zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

"We need to wait to hear from Afghanistan's legal institutions the Independent Election Commission and the Supreme Court to give their interpretation of the next steps ahead,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Activists from several civic groups held a roundtable at Moscow's Independent Press Center to discuss the extent of Russian corruption and what could be done about it.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Sierra Leone's Independent Media Commission was set up in 2007 to promote a free and pluralistic media and to protect the public interest from abuse by media houses.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Rubio sees Crist's transformation from Republican to independent as a political stunt.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Although Democrats are assured their 60 votes, through various compromises and support from two Independent senators, Republicans used the remaining hours of floor time Wednesday to re-state their objections.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Muntarbhorn is an independent investigator whose mandate comes from the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, acknowledged Specter's independent streak, and said there would continue to be a need for cooperation from Republicans in accomplishing the nation's business.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Analysts say part of the problem of electoral credibility stems from the widespread belief that the Afghan Independent Election Commission is not truly independent and that it is partisan for Mr.Karzai.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

In the face of opposition from Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, and to gain his vote, Senate lawmakers first dropped the government insurance option and then an alternative plan to decrease the eligibility age for the existing government Medicare program.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In an audio tape released last week, the spiritual leader of radical Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, himself from Somaliland, ridiculed the breakaway region's continued attempt at democracy and independent statehood, saying that despite its nearly two-decade quest the region remains isolated and politically divided.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The offer came after opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif asked for an end to executive rule in Punjab, the dropping of the judicial ruling that banned he and his brother from holding elected office and the restoration of an independent judiciary.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13