For Palestinians, the vital interest is independence and freedom within their own state.
Nevertheless, Britain still retains several small West Indian overseas territories, most of which have shown little interest in independence: Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
It also reminds us how many transfigurations this nation has gone through over time and assures us that through all those changes there is a discernible continuity of political purpose, the same vested interest in independence.
Anger because I can't see anything but a hypocritical interest in independence from [President] Artur Mas and team (they win: nobody is talking about corruption, cuts and social pain in this campaign).
It has spread from loony talk to universities, and now to secondary schools," a columnist for the South China Morning Post admitted this week, arguing that interest in independence was here to stay.
Dara Duguay, the executive director of JumpStart, says all written materials are evaluated by an educational consultant for organization, objectivity, ability to capture a student's interest and independence from specific products.
Wales is not economically strong enough to cope by itself; its voice in Europe and the world would be too weak; its proximity to England (almost half of Welsh people live within 25 miles of the border) means the two countries are too closely entwined to separate; above all, those polls show that most people have no interest in independence.
This finding runs counter to the anticipated benefits of requirements that the internal audit function report directly to the audit committee, and it reveals potential conflicts of interest and independence threats created by the audit committee itself.
While Douglas vaguely called it a "penumbral" right "emanating" from the Constitution, and the Court has been unable to clearly define the right, it has generally been viewed as a right protecting one's individual interest in independence in making certain important and personal decisions about one's family, life and lifestyle.
Any growth in the NGO space, including the continued work of the influential NCD Alliance funded by disease federations with major pharmaceutical industry backing, should be accompanied by transparency of financial sources, management of real or perceived conflicts of interest and independence from companies that have a financial stake in the outcomes of NCD agendas and international commitments.
