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There is a scholarly consensus that fascism was influenced by both left and right, conservative and anti-conservative, national and supranational, rational and anti-rational.
All parties are centrist and reflect a national consensus that supports democratic politics and a relatively open economy with a strong private sector.
It commenced work on 27 August 1992 with both President Rene and Mr. Mancham calling for national reconciliation and consensus on a new democratic Constitution.
The PRP viewed the outbreak of the First World War as a unique opportunity to achieve a number of goals: putting an end to the twin threats of a Spanish invasion of Portugal and of foreign occupation of the African colonies and, at the internal level, creating a national consensus around the regime and even around the party.
These domestic objectives were not met, since participation in the conflict was not the subject of a national consensus and since it did not therefore serve to mobilise the population.
In particular, the statement by the co-chairmen on the 23 February 1999 that the negotiations have led to a consensus on substantial autonomy for Kosovo, including on mechanisms for free and fair elections to democratic institutions, for the governance of Kosovo, for the protection of human rights and the rights of members of national communities ; and for the establishment of a fair judicial system.
Its responsibility is to advise the Minister on the development of the national vocational education and training system, based on the full consensus of the constituent members ( the representative organisations of schools and of entrepreneurship and their centres of expertise ).
The consensus among most citizens of the PRC seems to be one of support for reunification by all means necessary, as much for reasons of national pride as for economic or geopolitical reasons.
Although a national consensus ( by way of the National Occupational Competency Profile ) identifies certain knowledge, skills, and abilities as being most synonymous with a given level of Paramedic practice, each province retains ultimate authority in legislating the actual administration and delivery of emergency medical services within its own borders.
According to Thompson, Bilderberg itself is not an executive agency, but when Bilderberg participants reach a form of consensus about what is to be done they have at their disposal powerful transnational and national instruments for bringing about what it is they want to come to pass.
Professional basketball players include three-time NBA champion Danny Ainge ' 81, 1952 NBA Rookie of the Year and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins ' 51, three-time Olympic medalist and Hall of Famer Krešimir Ćosić ' 73, and consensus 2011 national college player of the year Jimmer Fredette ' 11, currently with the Sacramento Kings.
He won a national championship in 1981, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American as a junior in 1983.
The cultural policies of the ( current ) French Fifth Republic have been varied, but a consensus seems to exist around the need for preservation of French regionalisms ( such as food and language ) as long as these don't undermine national identity.
Initially, protected areas were recognised on a national scale, differing from country to country until 1933, when an effort to reach an international consensus on the standards and terminology of protected areas took place at the International Conference for the Protection of Fauna and Flora in London.
He should long be remembered as the man who pulled together a national consensus for economic growth.
In Israel, there is lasting support of the Camp David Peace Accords, which have become a national consensus, supported by 85 % of Israelis according to a 2001 poll taken by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies ( Israel based ).
There was no national consensus in Afghanistan, and the population were unaware that the area was to be split permanently along the line.
In 2001 the World Federation of Chiropractic, representing the national chiropractic associations in 77 countries, adopted this consensus statement which reaffirms belief in the vertebral subluxation.
He proposed a government based not only on political parties but on " functional groups " composed of the nation's basic elements, which would together form a National Council, through which a national consensus could express itself under presidential guidance.
In practice, many human rights are very difficult to legally enforce due to the absence of consensus on the application of certain rights, the lack of relevant national legislation or of bodies empowered to take legal action to enforce them.
# not being able to push through their own interests, as the role of Council Presidency is seen as an impartial instance ; member states trying to push for initiatives of their own national interest are likely to see them failing in the medium run ( e. g. the French 2008 Presidency and the Mediterranean Union project ), as they need consensus and do not have enough time to reach it.
This result is unusually low in Chinese national politics, where elections are normally confirmation of selections made by consensus.
Although the definition and identification of the inhabitants of Great Moravia proved to be politically imperative and difficult, additionally historical records are anything else but precise in this question, the current consensus among most of the Slovak historians is that Slovaks exist as a people with consciousness of their national identity since the 9th or 10th century, therefore we can identify the Slavic inhabitants living on the territory of this realm as Slovaks.
Since Lebanon is a multireligious state and consensus democracy, having a national unity government is more favorable in this country.

national and near
:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.
Many primary schools participate in the national road test in which children individually complete a circuit on roads near the school while being observed by testers.
Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.
Trafalgar Falls, located near the national park, is one of the most spectacular sites on the island.
For years the national competitions was held at Mount Garfield near Muskegon, Michigan.
* broadcast media: Broadcast media: publicly-owned TV broadcaster operates 2 terrestrial networks plus regional stations ; multiple privately-owned TV broadcasters operating nationally, regionally, and locally ; about 50 local TV stations ; widespread access to pan-Nordic and international broadcasters through multi-channel cable and satellite TV ; publicly-owned radio broadcaster operates 3 national stations and a network of 25 regional channels ; roughly 100 privately-owned local radio stations with some consolidating into near national networks ; an estimated 900 community and neighborhood radio stations broadcast intermittently ( 2008 )
Meanwhile, the government took in vast sums of American aid, in amounts sometimes near the total size of the national budget.
Further economic problems occurred in 1994 with an outbreak of taro leaf blight and the near collapse of the national airline Polynesian Airlines.
The country has dozens of beaches such as those found in Zanzibar and national parks like the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Other smaller parks such as Mikumi National parks which is located near Dar es Salaam also contribute to the economy of the country.
The Cold War led to the expansion of national defense government programs housed in offices in Northern Virginia near Washington, D. C., and correlative population growth.
This change reflected the shift of the Bolivian economy away from the largely exhausted silver mines of Potosí to the exploitation of tin near Oruro, and resulting shifts in the distribution of economic and political power among various national elites.
On his death at Collingwood, his home near Hawkhurst in Kent, he was given a national funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.
Built on a large area of council-owned land, the city council and Italian national government were recently involved in a trade-off with the Putin government in Moscow, exchanging the piece of land on which the church stands, for, albeit indirectly, a military barracks near Bari's central railway station.
On June 5, 2007, the regional subsidiary of national broadcaster DR reported that a hill, Kobanke, situated in the southeast near the town Rønnede in Faxe municipality, with a natural point of terrain at 122. 9 m ( 403. 21 feet ), was the highest natural point on Zealand.
Despite the common interpretation, the location was not midway between the national seats of DC and of the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) in Rome ( in this case to symbolize the end of the Historic Compromise, the alliance between DC and PCI sought by Moro ), but towards the Tiber River, near the Ghetto.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( Fermilab ), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
In 2006, the city made the front page of national newspapers when 200, 000 residents were told to evacuate in the wake of flooding that was forecast to reach levels near that of ' 72 but fell short of predictions.
A copper mining venture in the hills near the Laloki Valley, behind the present national capital, Port Moresby, also failed.
Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin asked to be buried on the Mount of Olives near the grave of Etzel member Meir Feinstein, rather than Mount Herzl national cemetery.
Caesarea Maritima ( Greek: παράλιος Καισάρεια ) is a national park on Israeli coastline, near the town of Caesarea.
Because Maryland was extremely interested that the national capital be near Maryland, it did little to protect rights of Maryland Citizens converted into Washington, DC Citizens.
The national Historic Sites and Monuments Board designated Bell's crossing of the lake a National Historic Event in 2005, and a federal plaque was erected in 2008 near the site of her landfall.
In 2001-2003 the construction of a Dracula theme park in the ' Breite ' nature preserve near Sighişoara was considered but ultimately rejected, due to the strong opposition of local civil society groups and national and international media as well as politically influential persons, as the theme park would have detracted from the medieval style of the city and would have destroyed the nature preserve.

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