While this type of independence is more common, many central banks prefer to announce their policy goals in partnership with the appropriate government departments.

While many Guianese wish to see more autonomy, support for complete independence is low.

While the full powers of NPCSC to interpret the Basic Law is provided for in the Basic Law itself, some critics argues this undermines judicial independence.

While there was no separate Polish state at all, the idea of Polish independence was kept alive throughout the 19th century and led to more Polish uprisings and other warfare against the partitioning powers.

While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of their independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one ’ s socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one's socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.

While opposing secession, the Government acknowledged the constitutional rights of Nevisians to determine their future independence.

While the Eisenhower administration approved of the strategy in general, LeMay continued to increase SAC ’ s independence by refusing to submit SAC war plans for review, believing that operational plans should be closely guarded, a view the Joint Chiefs of Staff eventually came to accept.

While Gould spoke of independence from the perspective of science, W. T. Stace viewed independence from the perspective of the philosophy of religion.

While the treaty was practically obsolete before the end of the year, it did provide some relief to the Bolsheviks, who were tied up in fighting the Russian Civil War, and it affirmed the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania.

While political maneuvering was setting the stage for an official declaration of independence, a document explaining the decision was being written.

While the other colonies all held the idea of colonial rights as paramount, they were split between those who sought legislative equality with Britain and those who instead favored independence and a break from the Crown and its excesses.

While UNMIK still exists, it does so in a minor role since Kosovo declared independence and adopted a new constitution, and following the creation of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo ( EULEX ).

While Saint Kitts and Nevis went on to gain full independence from Britain in 1983, Anguilla still remains a British overseas territory.

While the United Provinces gained independence, the Southern Netherlands remained under the rule of Spain ( 1556 – 1713 ).

While Jacques Peirotes, at this time deputy at the Landrat Elsass-Lothringen and just elected mayor of Strasbourg, proclaimed the forfeiture of the German Empire and the advent of the French Republic, a self-proclaimed government of Alsace-Lorraine declared independence as the " Republic of Alsace-Lorraine ".

While the absolute numbers of malnourished children in India is high, the rates of malnutrition and poverty in India have declined from approximately 90 % at the time of India's independence, to less than 40 % today.

While the opposition between Earth and Moon echoes the historical conflict between the United States and the British Empire, the way the Lunar rebels force Earth to acknowledge their independence is similar to the one they adopt in Dick's novel ( launching missiles, some with nuclear warheads, in an unpredictable fashion ).

While the Comanche managed to maintain their independence and increase their territory, by the mid-19th century they faced annihilation because of a wave of epidemics due to Eurasian diseases to which they had no immunity, such as smallpox and measles.

While the Red Shirts were willing to work with the Indian National Congress from a political point of view, the Pashtuns as a people desired independence from India.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and the United Kingdom, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While there are 54 members of the International Floorball Federation ( IFF ), the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland have finished in most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the World Floorball Championships.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and UK, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While politicians were previously involved in setting interest rates, the central bank was given an inflation-targeting mandate until Finland joined the eurozone.

While there are 68 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ), 162 of 177 medals at the IIHF World Championships have been taken by these seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.

While attempting to leave Europe, he is briefly imprisoned and interrogated in Finland.

While Maigret usually conducts his investigations in France, he has also been called upon to visit Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, and the United States.

While utilizing cannabis for recreational purposes is illegal in many parts of the world, many countries are beginning to entertain varying levels of decriminalization for medical usage ( the medical marijuana movement ), including Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, Israel, Italy, Finland, and Portugal.

While the word Finland originally meant only the southwestern part of what is now Finland ( Finland Proper ), the border of Norrland was drawn at the rivers Kaakamojoki or, later, Simojoki.

While the 1st class is the 5th and the 2nd class the 9th in the order of precedence of Finnish awards, the Mannerheim Cross 2nd class has become the most distinguished military award in Finland.

While the Allied propaganda from 1941 often referred to Finland as one of the Axis Powers, Finland was never a signatory to the German-Italian-Japanese Tripartite Pact of September 1940.

While many demonyms are derived from placenames, many countries are named for their inhabitants ( Finland for the Finns, Germany for the Germans, Thailand for the Thais, Denmark for the Danes, France for the Franks, Slovakia for the Slovaks, and Slovenia for the Slovenes ).

While this winter fur is actually a very good camouflage in the coastal regions of Finland where the snow covers the shrubs but for a short time, the mountain hare is better adapted for the snowier conditions of the inland areas.

While there had been large demonstrations in support of Finland, Russia was a traditional enemy, and fear of the Russians had been a part of the Swedish mindset since 1719, when Russian galleys burned Swedish coastal communities during the Great Northern War.

While Nicholas II clung to his father's Russification policy and even extending it to Finland, he generally disliked the idea of systematic religious persecution, and was not wholly averse to the partial emancipation of the Russian Church from civil control.

On 2 September 1944 Finland officially informed Germany of the coming cease fire between Finland and the Soviet Union which led to Hitler's orders to confiscate all Finnish shipping and to prepare for the Operation Tanne Ost While the confiscation order was rescinded in order to facilitate the material transport related to Operation Birke, as Finnish authorities as prevented any ships from sailing from Finland to Germany, plans for capturing Hogland were kept in motion.

While in Finland the activism would continue in movements of the interbellum: the Academic Karelia Society, the Lapua movement and the Patriotic People's Movement ; in the Baltic countries and Sweden it hardly survived outside some narrow circles of military officers, industrialists and aristocrats with political ambitions.

While the invasion revealed the striking military weaknesses of the Red Army and prompted the Soviet Union to reorganize its military forces, and it gained new territories, it pushed neutral Finland towards an accommodation with Nazi Germany, and it dealt yet another blow to the international prestige of the USSR.

While Stalin had promised at the Yalta Conference that free elections would be held in Poland, after an election failure in " 3 times YES " elections, vote rigging was employed to win a majority in the carefully controlled poll.

While Hitler conquered Poland, France and other countries acting on single front at the start of World War II, the USSR was able to build up its military and regain some of the former territories of the Russian Empire during the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War.

While the German Blitzkrieg doctrine called for combined-arms action, which required fire support for armoured units, during the invasion of Poland and France this was provided by the Luftwaffe using Stuka dive-bombers effectively acting as artillery.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

While in the east, Otto III strengthened the Empire's relations with Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary.

While in Ravenna, Otto III received ambassadors from Duke Boleslaw I of Poland and approved of King Stephen of Hungary's plans to establish the Archdiocese of Esztergom in order to convert Hungary to Christianity.

While folk music has lost popularity in Poland, especially in urban areas, the tourist destination of Podhale has retained its traditions lively.

While these two organizations were the founders of the AK, intended as the main Polish resistance movement, there were numerous other resistance organizations in Poland.

While he reasoned that " the seed of Abraham " was hardly predominant in a second generation after conversion to Christianity, he still warned of the " thousands which by the Russian tyranny will now come upon us even more abounding from Poland ", " the impure flood from the East ".

" While the Soviet Union had already annexed several occupied countries as ( or into ) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries in eastern Europe that it occupied were converted into Soviet-controlled satellite states, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.

" While meeting with Stalin and Roosevelt in Tehran in 1943, Churchill stated that Britain was vitally interested in restoring Poland as an independent country.

While the IPN investigation continued for two more years, as of early 2001 IPN ’ s finding of Polish involvement in the Jedwabne massacre was public knowledge in Poland.

While working with furniture manufacturers in Poland earlier in his career, Kamprad became an alcoholic.

“ While he tried honestly to show himself as a friend of Poland, Warsaw forced his departure, after his neutrality in Silesian voting was questioned ” by Germans and Poles.

“ While he tried honestly to show himself as a friend of Poland, Warsaw forced his departure, after his neutrality in Silesian voting was questioned ” by Germans and Poles.

While some claims of prior art do exist ( e. g., Bóbrka, Poland in 1854, Wietze, Germany in 1857, Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858 ), the Drake Well at Titusville was the first well to be widely copied.

2008 While King Oscar fish catches are still made in various waters throughout the world, King Oscar ’ s central production efforts are moved to a first-class facility in Gniewino, Poland.

While most of the German army was engaged in Poland, a much smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, their fortified defensive line along the French border.

While Norway, Germany, Poland, and Iceland harboured the largest surviving populations, pockets of reproducing pairs remained in several other countries.

While these provisions applied to all signatories, the focus of attention was on their application to the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ), Hungary, Poland, and Romania.

While technically Greater Poland was not a German state, the roughly corresponding territory of the Grand Duchy of Posen was under Prussian control since the First and Second Partition of Poland in the late 18th century.

While Lebensborn e. V. established facilities in several occupied countries, activities were concentrated around Germany, Norway and the occupied north-eastern Europe, mainly Poland.