While Christmas Day was the official end of Gorbachev's rule, declarations of independence in Soviet republics had begun the previous year, starting in the Baltic statesand culminating in the central Asian ones in autumn 1991.
In the presence of a spatial dependence, the observation made at one location is more similar to observations made at nearby sites [ 2], breaking the rule of sample independence for statistical analyses [ 23].
As a drastic exception to this rule of task independence, we have recently found (Mishra et al. 2010) that 3-O can be discriminated well from 1-octen-3-ol if larvae had been trained discriminatively, that is, by rewarding one but not the other odor (task iii).
Mr Clarke, 69, a QC, said he was "honoured" to become Lord Chancellor, and pledged to respect the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and the independence of the legal profession.
Romania has to "remove all doubts on its commitment to the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and the respect for constitutional rulings," Mr. Barroso warned Mr. Ponta last month in Brussels.
The EU is expected to publish a supplementary report on the rule of law and independence of the judiciary in Romania at the beginning of next year.
He said he recently spoke with Mr. Obama's advisers and suggested that the speech address the "infrastructure of democracy, which to us is the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, free media, autonomous civil society and gender equality".
Today the judiciary is divided between those who support Morsi's swift justice, and those who say they are fighting for the rule of law and independence of the judiciary.
As the lord chief justice put it so eloquently in his keynote speech to the Justice Human Rights Conference in London last year: "In a country governed by the rule of law, the independence of the press is a constitutional necessity".
Libya's second city – and the birthplace of the revolution – has become a very dangerous place, particularly if you are a champion of democracy, the rule of law, the independence of civil society institutions and, most of all, the creation of a national army that is answerable to the elected government.
