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States are resisting the idea of replacing their own tests with the NAEP, arguing that the national test is not aligned to state standards.

Conservatives have been building a credible counternarrative, arguing that the national polls showing Romney ahead offer a more accurate take on the final composition of the electorate than the more heavily Democratic samples showing up in state polls.

Last week, the White House asked Mr. Leahy to come to the White House for a meeting about the F.B.I. directorship, and Mr. Obama told him he wanted to keep Mr. Mueller, arguing that the national security team needed continuity.

In this respect it is important to keep in mind, as Kymlicka also argues, that the national community is conceived in egalitarian terms: the two fundamental principles of the nation – popular sovereignty and equality of all members of the national community – are at the same time the two core principles of democracy (Greenfeld, 1992: 10).

Some argue that the national intelligence director's office should designate an N.S.A. official to coordinate intelligence activities in London.

Legal analysis commissioned by 38 Degrees confirms what Labour has argued: that the national duties of provision will be weakened and broken up.

And critics have argued that the national nonprofit group that accredits the course providers has not done enough to fight drug industry influence in the classroom.

It also argues that the national and state Republican Parties are so mutually entangled as to be "incapable of acting independently".

Mr. Jakhar argues that the national government could have mandated that retailers who put up stores of a certain size be required to buy as much as three-quarters of their fruits and vegetables directly from farmers.

The lawyers said they would argue that the national group was aware of abusive leaders across the country, including Mr. Dykes, and frequently took no action to prevent more abuse.

In his book, "A Free Nation Deep in Debt", James Macdonald argues that the national debt was a source of strength for countries such as Britain and the Netherlands, whose governments were financed by merchants and bankers.