The ECB's independent action has been made dependent on fickle politicians.
The real surprise is that in a modern social democracy food production should be made dependent on such a short-term, self-serving lottery of a process.
Access to welfare and political rights were made dependent on state-manipulated ethnic identities, which assumed new importance with the creation of the homelands.
Polygamy, which was practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia, was permitted by the Qurʾān, which, however, limited the number of simultaneous wives to four, and this permission was made dependent upon the condition that justice be done among co-wives.
School funding could also be made dependent on how many parents choose to send their children to a particular school, so that good schools would expand and bad ones would close or be taken over.
The most prominent of the high court's findings, and the one in which they followed the ECJ to the letter, is that access to retained data "must be made dependent on a prior review by a court or an independent administrative body".
Wednesday's report comes two days after foreign ministers endorsed the European Commission's Agenda for Change policy, under which more money will be targeted towards the world's least developed countries and budget support will be made dependent on governments' human rights and governance records.
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Mr. Levin said he wanted financing for the Frontier Corps to be made dependent on an "explicit commitment" by the Pakistanis to "halt cross-border attacks by Taliban militants and Al Qaeda terrorists into Afghanistan".
Julien Blanc, refused entry to Britain on the basis that his seminars promote sexual assault, is just the most prominent exponent of a widespread idea: that women can be made dependent on men by a series of gauche and brutal psychological tricks known as "game".
