After that endorsed the Tate Gallery's Clore Gallery wing as the solution ( on the lines of the Duveen wing of 1910 ), to the controversy of what should be done with the Turner Bequest, Selby Whittingham resigned from that and founded the Independent Turner Society.

The House passed its version of the Financial Services Act of 1999 on July 1, 1999, by a bipartisan vote of 343-86 ( Republicans 205 – 16 ; Democrats 138 – 69 ; Independent 0 – 1 ), two months after the Senate had already passed its version of the bill on May 6 by a much-narrower 54 – 44 vote along basically-partisan lines ( 53 Republicans and 1 Democrat in favor ; 44 Democrats opposed ).

American paratroops were dropped at intermediate points north of Allied lines, with the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade at the tip of the salient at Arnhem.

Unlike county districts, independent districts can cross county lines, as in the Caverna Independent Schools centered on Cave City and Horse Cave and the Corbin Independent Schools.

A swing voter or floating voter is a voter who may not be affiliated with a particular political party ( Independent ) or who will vote across party lines.

Independent contrapuntal lines within a single staff are indicated via whole-measure or part-measure " in-accords ".

Prior to forming the Personal Choice Party, Larsen was known as a political activist and frequent candidate for numerous political offices in Utah under the ballot lines of several minor parties including the Libertarian Party and the Independent American Party.

The Recreational / Leisure segment comprises three distinct operating divisions: The Cycling Sports Group ( CSG ) division which deals specifically with the Independent Bicycle Dealers ( IBD ) channel ; the Pacific Cycle division which deals with the mass merchant and sporting goods channel ; and the Apparel Footwear Group ( AFG ) which incorporates the SUGOI, Cannondale, GT, Schwinn, IronHorse and Mongoose apparel lines.

* November 15 – Independent Estonian national railway company is established on the basis of Looderaudtee ( North-Western Railway ), Esimese Juurdeveoteede Selts ( First Association of Approach Tracks ) and military and other railway lines.

Independent lines were commenced from the east coast ports of Maryborough, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, Cairns and Cooktown.

After the City acquired the BMT and IRT in 1940, the Independent lines were dubbed the IND to follow the three-letter initialisms of the other systems.

The union had already discovered that the City Board of Transportation, which ran the smaller Independent Subway System ( IND ), was as dismissive of unions as the private lines, even though two of the three members had union backgrounds before they entered politics.

He developed anticlerical lines of argument in The Natural History of Superstition ( 1709 ), and The Independent Whig, a weekly periodical published in 1720 – 21 with Thomas Gordon.

In addition to this, the Honner Force — consisting of militiamen from the 39th Battalion and reinforcements from the 2 / 6th Independent Company — was formed under the command of Ralph Honner with orders to attack Japanese supply lines between Nauro and Menari.

In March 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray determined that there was no credible evidence of any crime.

In its summary, the commission wrote: " Independent of extrinsic evidence, the Commission finds:

On 17 December 2009, Independent Police Complaints Commission investigators and officers from the Metropolitan Police's directorate of professional standards arrested a former police constable and a serving member of Metropolitan Police staff on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice by allegedly withholding evidence from the original murder inquiry, the Kent investigation and the Macpherson inquiry.

Independent research in Israel and the Netherlands in the late 1980s showed an apparent reduction in the amount of sunlight, despite widespread evidence that the climate was actually becoming hotter.

The studies were key sources of evidence for a number of UK Government inquiries such as the Plowden Committee on Primary Education ( 1967 ), the Warnock Committee on Children with Special Educational Needs ( 1978 ), the Finer Committee on One Parent Families ( 1966 – 74 ), the Acheson Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health ( 1998 ) and the Moser Committee on Adult Basic Skills ( 1997 – 99 ).

Before the trial, the state court ruled that, due to the immunity agreements which the Independent Counsel's office entered into with Tripp, Lewinsky, and others, a substantial amount of the evidence which the prosecution intended to use was inadmissible.

However, according to a report in The Independent newspaper written by the paper's Law Editor, Robert Verkaik, Davis and one of his original trial barristers, Mr David Whitehouse, now a QC, intended to make representations to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in the hope that they would return to court citing new evidence and establish Davis's innocence and seek compensation for his period of imprisonment.

In its summary the commission wrote: " Independent of extrinsic evidence, the Commission finds:

" Amid the ruins, the grisly evidence of a war crime ," The Independent, April 16, 2002.

In 2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report on Filegate, stating that there was no credible evidence of any criminal activity by any individual in the matter and no credible evidence that senior White House figures or the First Lady had requested the files or had acted improperly or testified improperly regarding Livingstone's hiring.

" On 26 July 2007, the Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Lord Rooker ) said " My Lords, we welcome the Independent Scientific Group ’ s final report, which further improves the evidence base.

While the Independent Counsel, found that Hubbell " did little or no work for the money paid by his consulting clients ," he determined there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the money was intended to influence Hubbell's cooperation with investigators in the Whitewater investigation.

In 2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report on Travelgate, stating that Hillary Clinton had made factually false statements but there was insufficient evidence her statements were either knowingly false or that she understood that her statements led to the firings.

" Moreover, Ray determined Hillary Clinton had given " factually false " testimony when questioned by the GAO, the Independent Counsel, and Congress about the travel office firings, but reiterated that " the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt " that she knew her statements were false or understood that they may have prompted the firings.

While the RCMP investigated, and eventually concluded there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, Guergis continued to sit as an Independent Conservative in the House of Commons.

Columnist Michael Gaynor, writing for Alan Keyes ' organization Renew America, noted IWF's early criticism of the school's and the district attorney's mishandling of the case, saying, " The Independent Women's Forum's Charlotte Allen figured out early that the real scandal was the way the players were mistreated and her posts during April 2006 on the IWF website showed a commendable concern with due process and evidence instead of rushing to an erroneous misjudgment.

The Final Report of the U. S. Office of the Independent Counsel report noted that " Willey gave false information to the FBI about her sexual relationship with a former boyfriend, and acknowledged having lied about it when the agents confronted her with contradictory evidence.

Independent federal recognition status is often resisted by the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe members who urge the Sandy Lake Band to first hold regular government sessions with minutes recording their proceedings, such that the Sandy Lake Band may provide documented evidence of regular and consistent government sessions.

Independent psychical researchers and psychologists such as Thomson Jay Hudson in The Law of Psychic Phenomena ( 1892 ) and Théodore Flournoy in his book Spiritism and psychology ( 1911 ) had claimed that all kinds of mediumship could be explained by suggestion and telepathy from the mediums subconscious mind and that there was no evidence for the spirit hypothesis.

The Independent reported that Heartland's receipt of donations from Exxon and Philip Morris indicates a " direct link "..." between anti-global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry and the opponents of the scientific evidence showing that passive smoking can damage people's health.

The Independent revealed in January 2012, that the British government has spent £ 274, 345 fighting in court to prevent Aamer's lawyers gaining access to evidence which may prove his innocence.

* 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.

* Independent Bonn International School, ( IBIS ) private primary school ( serving from kindergarten, reception, and years 1 to 6 )

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

Whilst members of the Independent Catholic movement take seriously the issue of valid orders, it is highly significant that the relevant Vatican Congregations tend not to respond to petitions from Independent Catholic bishops and clergy who seek to be received into communion with the Holy See, hoping to continue in some sacramental role.

Following the events of Bloody Sunday Bernadette Devlin, an Independent Socialist nationalist MP from Northern Ireland, expressed anger at what she perceived as government attempts to stifle accounts being reported about the day.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

The voting process, though technically difficult due to the lack of infrastructure, was facilitated and organized by the Congolese Independent Electoral Commission with support from the UN mission to the Congo ( MONUC ).

In the years that followed, many of the Independent Christian Church Congregations requested formal withdrawal from the yearbook.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

In April 2006, Scottish & Newcastle plc announced that it had agreed to acquire the Foster ’ s brand in Europe ( including Turkey ), the Russian Federation and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States from Foster ’ s Group Limited for approximately £ 309 million.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.

( Independent Music Press, 2011 ISBN 978-1-906191-19-1 )-A global view of the goth scene from its birth in the late 1970s to the present day.

Political rebellion also made its home here, whether serious ( John Reed ) or frivolous ( Marcel Duchamp and friends set off balloons from atop Washington Square Arch, proclaiming the founding of " The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village ").

The Liberal Party increased its numbers from 52 to 61, and the Country Party from 20 to 21, with Labor dropping from 51 to 41 seats, and one Independent.