But the declaration coincided with a report from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) expressing "serious concerns" over the proposals and saying they damaged Britain's reputation as a global beacon of press freedom.
Re-establishing the secretary of state's legal duty to the NHS in England, and protecting the NHS from competition law and increasing marketisation would be a good opportunity to redress past mistakes and strengthen a magnificent service that, though not perfect, has been a global beacon of equality and efficiency.
Look at The University of California system, fast losing its status as a global beacon for public education.
But this petulant, bombastic troll isn't just what 63percentt of white American male voters look like, he is a global beacon for neofascism.
At churches, mosques, synagogues and community halls from the Limpopo River to the Cape, millions offered praise and reflected on a man celebrated as "Father of the Nation" and as a global beacon of integrity, rectitude and reconciliation.
As I said before in an earlier post -- along with my friend and colleague Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change -- we hope she'll choose platforms "that engages all in the democracy we recognize as a global beacon; woven together by the cultural, demographic mosaic that defines us: White, Black, Brown, Asian, Native Americans and recent immigrants from many countries".
So began a test run for a game of Pac-Manhattan, a real-world version of the 1980's video game played on the streets of New York and the latest example of a so-called "big game": a contest that uses wireless devices like cellphones and global positioning beacons to track players as they move through the urban grid, turning cities into vast game boards.
We elaborate a reinforcement algorithm to learn goal-oriented behavior based on global orientation beacons, biased by local sensory information provided by visual or infra-red sensors.
And look at governments in the global south – hardly beacons of progress and human rights.
He is also a partner at Beacon Global Strategies, one of Washington's revolving-door consulting firms.
