* In some British and Commonwealth schools ( especially but not exclusively Independent schools ), prefects, usually students in fifth to seventh years ( depending on how many years the school in question has ), have considerable power ; in some cases they effectively run the school outside the classroom.

Although there was negative reaction from some churches, with a member of a congregation in London declaring " the question is not so much now who is Independent Anabaptist etc as who is for Christ and who is for Cromwell ", most of the sects welcomed the decision.

To Plácido de Castro, proclaimed governor of the new Independent State of Acre, it was left to discuss the question of borders in the diplomatic sphere.

Reviewing his performance in Black Pond positively, The Independent commented, ' whether it will rehabilitate him among casting agents and comedy show commissioners is another question.

In this book he purports to examine the position of Pacelli, the later Pius XII, towards Adolf Hitler ’ s seizure of power, the downfall of the Catholic Zentrum Party, the Reichskonkordat between Nazi-Germany and the Vatican, the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (‘ With Burning Concern ’), paganism, the national-socialist education programs, the ‘ T4-program ’ ( the murder of physically and mentally handicapped persons ), the invasion of Poland, Operation Barbarossa, the Jews in the Netherlands, priest-president Jozef Tiso of Slovakia, the Ustasha in Independent State of Croatia, the deportation of Jews from Rome, the Hungarian Holocaust, the help offered to war criminals, the resistance against Nazism, the alleged refusal of the Church to " give back Jewish " children who had been in hiding, the failures of the Allies, alleged antisemitism after the Holocaust, and the moral question of alleged guilt of the Church and the pope.

It is broadcast at 22: 30, although one edition which was broadcast at 21: 30 drew comment from Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent who wondered if it was " a gesture to the poor ould fellas who might have some chance of staying awake past the first question ".

The SAPD was affiliated to the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre, but broke with the main party of that international, the Independent Labour Party, over the question of the united front and popular front.

", a question which is answered with a " yes " or a " no "), or by a structured ordinal question (" Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, or what ?").

At that point, " Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics ... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, self-distributorship Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications ".

This was followed with the single " She Bangs the Drums ", which gave them a top forty UK hit, and a number one on the UK Independent Chart, and by that point they were receiving much greater press attention and were selling out shows across the country.

The lead single from the album, " Kayleigh ", received major promotion by EMI and gained heavy rotation on BBC Radio 1 and Independent Local Radio stations as well as television appearances, bringing the band to the attention of a much wider audience.

The Independent Broadcasting Authority quickly introduced their own ORACLE system, and the two organizations subsequently agreed to use a single standard, the " Broadcast Teletext Specification ".

* East Bernstadt Independent School District — Operates a single K-8 school.

Interestingly, one of the other districts with this distinction is in Kentucky — specifically the Corbin Independent School District, serving a single city split by a county line.

* East Bernstadt Independent School District — Operates a single K-8 school.

There is a single school district for the entire city, Three Rivers Independent School District, containing Three Rivers Elementary School, Three Rivers Junior High School and Three Rivers High School.

Independent label Too Pure agreed to release the band's debut single " Dress " in October 1991 and later signed PJ Harvey.

Released as a single in October 2000, " Independent Women Part 1 " spent eleven consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 from November 2000 to January 2001, the longest-running number-one single of Destiny's Child's career and of that year in the United States.

Beyoncé performing Destiny's Child's hit " Independent Women Part I ", the longest-charting single of this group, on The Beyoncé Experience

Independent bottlers buy casks of single malts and either bottle them immediately or store them for future use.

The T-28 was in many ways similar to the British Vickers A1E1 Independent tank, which greatly influenced tank design in the period between the wars, even though only a single prototype of this trend-setter was manufactured, in 1926.

The result was six singles released by Next Plateau Records, several of which became hits: " Expression " ( US # 26, UK # 40 in 1990, UK # 23 in 1992 ), a platinum single that had been certified gold before it even cracked the US Hot 100 as it had already been # 1 on the R & B Chart for 8 weeks, and produced by Salt ; " Independent "; " I Don't Know " ( featuring Kid N Play ); " Do You Want Me " ( US # 21, UK # 5 ), certified gold ; " Let's Talk About Sex " ( US # 13, UK # 2 ), certified gold, and later re-recorded as " Let's Talk About Aids "; and " You Showed Me " ( UK # 15 ).

This resulted in Jean Turner's election as the Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden on this single issue in 2003, however she eventually lost her seat to Labour's David Whitton in the 2007 elections for the Scottish Parliament.

Messy's recent credits include music in The Crow III, What Lies Beneath, 2Gether, NBC ’ s Third Watch, Things Behind the Sun, Skechers USA, EVE. com, PlayStation 2, The Unreal Tournament sequel, Myst III ’ s " Exile " single, HBO, Disney, and an award-winning trailer for the Independent Film Channel.

Independent sideband ( ISB ) is an AM single sideband mode which is used with some AM radio transmissions.

The new alliance was launched as a single party with the merger of FD and the Republican Independent and Liberal Pole ( PRIL, formed in 1998 by those DL members who refused to leave UDF ).

Standing for Parliament as an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate at the 2001 general election, Taylor campaigned largely on a single issue, that of restoring the Accident & Emergency department of Kidderminster Hospital, which had been closed in 2000 due to cuts in the NHS.

She was the third most influential environmentalist in the UK for the Independent on Sunday in 2009 and has been Resource magazine's no 1 and 2 in 2009 and 2010 for her work on waste which has seen Wales come from behind the rest of the UK to be the lead recycling country in Britain and the first UK country to charge for single use carrier bags.

The first single, " Independent Girl " released in November 2003 reached No. 17 on the German single chart and No. 5 in Russia.

In addition, political groups or individuals failing to register with the Commission would only be able to describe themselves as " Independent " on ballot papers, or have a blank entry against their name -- with the single exception of the Speaker of the House of Commons who is entitled to be described as: " The Speaker seeking re-election ".

Independent of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to the said work, which would be prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

* 2012 – The Independent State of Azawad is declared.

Armenia is interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS, a group of 12 former Soviet republics ) and with members of the international community on environmental issues.

For the most part however, Armenia is considered one of the more pro-democratic nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

Most of the city is served by the Austin Independent School District.

This apostolic succession is recognized by Unity Catholic Church, an Independent Catholic Church.

The Independent review of the 1995 National Theatre revival praised the production, writing " For three hours of gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment, Sean Mathias's production establishes the show as a minor miracle of astringent worldly wisdom and one that is haunted by less earthy intimations.

Dubstep producer Skream, is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying " The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush.

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.

* They hold that the practice within Independent groups of ordaining women demonstrates an understanding of Priesthood that they vindicate is totally unacceptable to the Catholic and Orthodox churches as they believe that the Universal Church does not possess such authority ; thus, they uphold that any ceremonies performed by these women should be considered being sacramentally invalid.

* The theology of male clergy within the Independent movement is also suspect according to the Roman Catholics, as they presumably approve of the ordination of females, and may have even undergone an ( invalid ) ordination ceremony conducted by a woman.

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.

Independent lines of evidence from Type Ia supernovae and the CMB imply that the Universe today is dominated by a mysterious form of energy known as dark energy, which apparently permeates all of space.

The play received glowing reviews in all the British broadsheets, including The Times: " The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating "; The Daily Telegraph: " I can't praise this enthralling production too highly ... exceptionally gripping courtroom drama "; and The Independent: " A necessary triumph ".

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

Held by many Protestant groups who take what they believe is a more literal interpretation of the Bible, including many, but not most, Pentecostal Charismatic and Baptist churches and Independent and ' Non-denominational ' churches as well as a few of the Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan / Methodist churches.

Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned ; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993.