Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

Noah Feldman

William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them, not even the last, and each was younger than the previous woman... But after his personal life began to actually fall apart, he developed a set of values about the Constitution that turned out to maximize our autonomy and freedom.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

Leah Busque

Traditional models of work only let us cross out the needs on the very bottom of the pyramid - basic sustenance. On the flipside, independent employment within the network of the new sharing economy addresses our needs for a sense of community and belonging, autonomy and respect, creativity and problem solving.

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

Fund surveillance should comply with the objective of promoting exchange and financial stability and respect the autonomy as to exchange-rate systems that is granted to all members.

We live in a society that extols mobility, autonomy and freedom,

We support autonomy in nursing care delivery and professional development. We make sure our nurses have everything they need to provide the safest care for their patients.

He's going to lose his autonomy for a while, and his passport for sure.

He has complete autonomy for the basketball operation.

Kofi Annan

The question of independence has been raised, the question of autonomy has been raised, ... It is important that the discussion begins soon.

Jean Chatzky

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

Some may think that they will have a greater likelihood of autonomy and success at Boston Scientific, as opposed to being eaten up by the J&J machine.

Grover Norquist

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

We believe these results confirm that the third quarter 2001 was the bottom of this market as far as Autonomy was concerned.

Virginia's constitution provides for a great deal of autonomy for the local school divisions.

Brent Smith

We like to stay out of many local college issues, and we do that because that's the way the tech system is set up. There's more autonomy with the local colleges.

You take those three data points together and you start to put together a picture of a company that's performing very well, ... We're not seeing the slowdown at Autonomy that other companies are facing.

Autonomy is getting half of its sales in the U.S., has laid out a solid strategy with original equipment manufacturers, has a solid management team and market opportunity,

At some hotels, the general manager or the front-of-house manager would have the autonomy to negotiate with you,

I'm respectful of the deep-seated culture in Sonoma County that embraces local autonomy and the independence of those local school districts.

Rajnath Singh

The BJP firmly believes that entertaining any idea of autonomy and self-rule would encourage secession and separation.

It's not inappropriate unless the student thinks it's inappropriate. We're trying to invest our users with as much autonomy as possible.

Each state has the autonomy or discretion to determine how they will measure whether their students are proficient. PSSA is Pennsylvania's answer.

If you look at Autonomy's share price over time, it's been fairly immune to market sector movements, because investors who go into Autonomy tend to know why they are in: that they are in for the long term,

Bud Selig

I don't think that's true at all. There's no facts to support that and we're doing everything we can. We've taken care of the present future. Senator Mitchell has complete autonomy to go do whatever he has to do, wherever he has to go. In the meantime our minor league program is in its sixth year.

Vladimir Putin

At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.