Even provided with constitutional support, the Diet has had some difficulty establishing itself as a respected body in the eyes of many of the Japanese people.
The remarks, coming at a time of huge sensitivity around gay rights in Africa, have the potential to embarrass Obasanjo's colleagues on the Africa Progress Panel, a respected body that monitors development across the continent.
In two public inquiries (into the deaths of Baha Mousa and Hamid al-Sweady), it was revealed that the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC) – the most respected body in the world in matters of international humanitarian law – had complained about prisoner abuse.
That is the principal reason for a full-scale re-examination by a respected public body.
In February, 62% of Americans said that they had a great deal of confidence in their armed forces; the next most respected body, "major educational institutions", got just 37%.
Dr. Andrea Pennington is a respected mind-body medicine physician, acupuncturist and leading authority on wellness and transformation.
Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like.
Since MBF and CFR can be measured by PET [ 28, 29], a large body of respected researchers has been predicting the emergence of PET as the primary MPS tool for a considerable time [ 30– 30].
The International Energy Agency, one of the most respected bodies on energy policy, warned that the number of fossil fuel power stations and other energy hungry infrastructure that we build in the next three to five years may determine the whole future of the planet – because building such infrastructure, which will be around for decades to come, will "lock in" a world of high emissions.
But politically it would be all but impossible to take Germany into the euro if both Bundesbank and the Constitutional Court, two of the most respected bodies in the country, raised serious doubts especially with a general election next September, just four months before the proposed euro launch.
