And neither chamber has fully embraced an independent commission conceived to dilute Congress's powers to determine Medicare spending.
Listen Up Philip is a reminder of the kind of independent movies conceived without rigid adherence to narrative formula and romcom recipe.
Levy, a native New Yorker with a background in independent media, conceived the idea with his friends Ben Dailey and Ryan Deussing back in May, after President Bush had declared the war in Iraq over.
The repurposed building housed the American Ambulance Hospital of Paris, an independent institution conceived of by Herrick to treat the war wounded.
According to The Independent, Kneale conceived a storyline involving the young Quatermass becoming involved in German rocketry experiments in the 1930s, and helping a young Jewish woman to escape the country during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Essentially, these domains are connected by the process of measurement, thus far conceived as independent of conscious observers.
Whatever the literal meaning of their words, they were visionary leaders of a nation conceived in independent thought, and would never have wanted Americans more than two centuries later to be restrained from applying their own independent thought and intelligence to the running of the country.
The advantage of a prospective cohort design is the capacity to examine multiple outcomes of interest; some of which may be conceived as independent or mediating variables for other outcomes.
Others give groups no such independent standing, but conceive group rights as rights that are shared in and held jointly by the group's members.
ELENA, 10 POINT: This typeface - conceived of by independent typographer Leopold Shunt, as the moon set on the final night of his wife's life - disintegrates over time.
Even so, it has been said with some justice that in the ancient world the soul-mind remained an integral part of the world system; it was not conceived as an independent subject that stood over against the world in the way that "consciousness" has been held to do in the modern period.
