In May last year the government announced it would abolish the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which performs a range of freedom of information, privacy and information policy functions.
Furthermore, Chinese thinkers from the 19th century onwards have adapted the concept of rights received in interaction with the West, and these adaptations often articulate the idea that the individual ought to have a range of freedom of expression and action so that they can contribute more richly and originally to the welfare of Chinese society.
Free schools and academies enjoy a range of greater freedoms that will help them to pull ahead in the new competitive schools market.
It's the same gesture of strategic tolerance, aimed at co-opting critics, that Moaveni perceives in a range of social freedoms the government — at this point, pre-Ahmadinejad — has allowed.
To mark the launch of a report on Thursday, Mike Harris, the organisation's head of advocacy, criticised the EU for failing to take a strong stance against the mass state surveillance revealed by Snowden and a range of other freedom of expression issues in Europe and elsewhere.
The National Assembly adopted a new constitution on July 12 , 1991 which proclaimed Bulgaria a parliamentary republic and promised citizens a broad range of freedoms.
Point estimates were robust to two decimal places in sensitivity analyses conducted to test the influence of using a range of degrees of freedom for the temperature splines and for including and excluding cases with imputed area of residence (see Additional file 1).
For both calendar time and temperature, we considered a range of degrees of freedom from 2 to 20; for dew point temperature, we considered a range from 1 to 10.
Beijing has said that it offers the Uighurs a wide range of freedoms, including economic development, and it called the separatists terrorists.
In 1264 Duke Bolesław the Pious of Greater Poland granted the Statute of Kalisz privilege, which specified a broad range of freedoms (of religious practices, movement, trading) and rights for the Jews, creating a legal precedent of official protection from local harassment and exclusion.
