"The fact that the board has been so passive despite years of misconduct is a testament to how lacking in independence its members are from the Murdoch family.
While independent progressive media are booming on the Internet, the largest netroots political-action groups are sorely lacking in independence.
The "vast majority of the board's members … are wholly lacking in independence since they are Murdoch family members or longtime friends, News Corp. executives or persons who have business relationships with Murdoch," the suit said.
The status quo is also enforced by a highly politicised judiciary lacking in genuine independence.
Hacked Off and its supporters reject the claim that press freedom will be threatened by the charter provisions, arguing that Ipso is far too similar to the current and discredited regulatory body, the Press Complaints Commission, and therefore lacking in both independence and rigour.
Underscoring the complexity of the case and of Brazil's judicial system, legal scholars here point out that the new twists in the trial do not suggest that the high court, which is handling the appeals itself, is acting improperly or lacking in judicial independence.
The plan – deliberately lacking in detail – covered energy independence, small business, deficit reduction, skills training and international trade, and included the veiled threat of a trade war with China.
A plethora of underused venues, easygoing landlords and a relaxed licensing regime created a sense of lawlessness and independence which was lacking in other parts of London.
It is that independence, that confidence in ideas, that is most lacking in the academy now.
In Milan she learned her craft as a photo-reporter and soon, despite her family's forebodings, she was enjoying success and all the other things she'd previously lacked in life: creativity, independence, intellectual friends.
They found that patients with MRSA SSI had poorer functional status than controls and more often lacked independence in ADLs, including ambulation (45% vs 28%, P=0.009), bathing (37% vs 15%; P<0.001), dressing (37% vs 15%; P<0.001), and feeding (15% vs 6%; P=0.02).
