To keep a mutual fund sharia-compliant, an advisory board of Islamic scholars monitors its avoidance of companies profiting from alcohol, casinos, movies, music, financial services (other than those provided by Islamic banks), weapons and pigs.
And yet the Party addressed it as a moral contagion: the filters and the human censors that constitute the Great Fire Wall removed images and comments from the Internet in what scholars who monitor Chinese digital life recorded as the sharpest spike in online censorship all year.
As patriarch of Greek Catholics, Maximus V was an advocate of closer relations with the Orthodox Church, even to the point of straining ties with Rome, said Tarek Mitri, a Lebanese scholar who monitors the Eastern Christian churches for the World Council of Churches in Geneva and who also lectures on Eastern Christianity at Geneva University.
The setback for Mr. Rafsanjani came in a vote for the leadership of the Assembly of Experts, a body of religious scholars entrusted with monitoring the country's supreme leader and choosing a successor at his death, offering it potentially wide power to mold Iran's political direction.
"There is no question that he would have been monitored," said Marie Duboc, a French scholar who now teaches at the University of Tübingen, in Germany.
In many ways, what happens next in Libya's asset recovery efforts may be monitored, critiqued and studied by governments, scholars, activists, and dictators alike.
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) — A group of scholars who have been monitoring the descent of the bar over the past few decades have concluded that the bar can no longer be lowered, the scholars announced on Friday.
By Andy Borowitz July 24, 2015 MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) — A group of scholars who have been monitoring the descent of the bar over the past few decades have concluded that the bar can no longer be lowered, the scholars announced on Friday.
"The city was pulled back from the edge of environmental collapse in the 1980s by policies that were then insufficiently monitored and not updated," says Luis Manuel Guerra, a well-known environmental scholar and activist.
The scholars were subjected to persistent surveillance for decades as MI5 and police special branch officers tapped and recorded their telephone calls, intercepted their private correspondence and monitored their contacts, the files show.
