Specifically, neocolonialism refers to the theory that former or existing economic relationships, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post – World War II period.

The participants, or " agents " of this new form of trust are granted specific powers by the trust based on their skills, location in advantageous trust jurisdictions or past relationships.

The proceedings against the Templars in the Council of Vienne are representative of this time, reflecting the various powers and their relationships.

This enables him to travel, building secular relationships and at times challenging powers within the strong feudal hierarchy.

Among the questions on which Chinese nationalists have disagreed is what policies would lead to a strong China, what is the structure of the state and its goal, what the relationship should be between China and foreign powers, and what should be the relationships between the majority Han Chinese, minority groups, and overseas Chinese.

The administration also realized that Thailand would fend for itself when the Japanese invasion came, considering the deteriorating relationships with the major Western powers in the area.

On commercial relationships, Mao reckoned that it was the imperialist powers that were preventing China from doing business with the outside world.

In the early novels the focus is predominantly on crime solving and action, with the later novels focusing more on Anita's personal and sexual relationships and powers.

A fuller treatment of the subject of the Indo-European Pantheon would not merely list the cognate names but describe additional correspondences in the " family relationships ", festival dates, associated myths ( but see Mythology section ) and special powers.

Although both the United Kingdom and United States have close relationships with many other nations, the level of cooperation between them in economic activity, trade and commerce, military planning, execution of military operations, nuclear weapons technology, and intelligence sharing has been described as " unparalleled " among major powers.

These relationships are especially important in relation to the US ’ s effort to limiting nuclear proliferation ; cooperation with these powers is absolutely necessary.

Obviously the relationships with the Maritime powers, allied to Charles III were re-established, and the harbours were again opened to Dutch and English ships, resuming trade as before.

Gibbs dissented, finding that the Commonwealth might have such powers only in relationships with other nations and only if the treaty arranged with other nations was " international in character ".

* Jennifer and Janet Kovalski, Gigi Martin, Alexis " Alex " Madden-formerly at Empire State University, sought to promote peaceful relationships between humans and mutants, made up of both, several killed when Alex ’ s powers exploded out of control

Although the power relationships are similar the actual powers exercised can be quite different.

Nor were these relationships static for in later stories Jill left to study to become a nurse so that she could better assist Hardy in the veterinary side of his work, and Cat Girl lost her magic powers due to exposure to Strontium 90 radiation from atomic testing, retaining only her telepathic mastery over cats as she took on the new mortal identity of jet-set socialite Lydia Fellin whose " family fortune " was actually the vast treasure trove that she had gathered over the centuries.

Bremmer uses ' pivot state ' to describe a nation that is able to build profitable relationships with multiple other major powers without becoming overly reliant on any one of them.

Originally, the series was intended to focus on young people with supernatural powers — which many of the issues indeed do — but as the year progressed, the stories increasingly focused on people, relationships, and emotions, with the " supernatural " angle quietly deemphasized.

An exploration of these possible relationships constitutes the process of creation and thereby gives form to the dance.

These two values and the rake angle **yc are sufficient to determine the other parameters of these relationships.

The fossils of Ardipithecus have not yet been studied by researchers beyond the original ( 2009 ) group of describers, and the paleobiology and relationships of these creatures are the subject of controversy.

A number of these organizations are striving to foster positive relationships between the Arab and Jewish populations: The Harduf Waldorf school includes both Jewish and Arab faculty and students, and has extensive contact with the surrounding Arab communities.

Particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a significant push to understand the relationships between these climatic parameters and properties of ecosystem energetics because such discoveries would enable the prediction of rates of energy capture and transfer among components within ecosystems.

If further research confirms these relationships, it will be necessary to reclassify the rorquals.

A teacher's desire to have a talented student, the obligations between a student and a master, and tensions in these relationships are central to the characters ' motives, conflicts between the characters, and the unfolding of the film's plot.

Indeed, he tries to reinvent these notions from a personal point of view and to introduce them into human relationships.

Specific duties were prescribed to each of the participants in these sets of relationships.

Both the Jewish Bible and the New Testament also contain passages some have interpreted as describing same-sex relationships, for example David and Jonathan or the centurion and his servant ; these are likewise the subject of scholarly debate, with most arguing that the relationships depicted are platonic.

They cite these issues when arguing for a change in theological views on sexual relationships to what they say is an earlier view.

# As a result of interaction with the environment, and particularly as a result of evaluational interaction with others, the structure of the self is formed-an organized, fluid but consistent conceptual pattern of perceptions of characteristics and relationships of the " I " or the " me ", together with values attached to these concepts.

Ultimately, these issues have led to a souring of relationships with the erstwhile bandmates, who still have not resolved their personal differences as of 2012.

Relational databases are efficient at managing the relationships between these tables.

He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over questions of strategy, but these rarely upset his relationships with them.

Phylogenetic relationships between these families are difficult to determine.

Most studies that have attempted to determine these relationships are based either on some of the more conserved proteins-DNA polymerase and others-or on common structural features.

Despite these relationships, the various membranes are not identical in structure and function.

Some of Pope Gregory the Great ’ s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.

In most other languages, these relationships are regular enough to be called rules.

The Egyptians often grouped gods together to reflect these relationships.

While taxonomists using molecular phylogenetic techniques find strong support for the order, there remain questions about the morphological relationships of the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae to the rest of the order, due in part to limited research on these families.

Even the forms folktales take are certainly similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative ways have been successful in showing these relationships.