| The office of the Administrator of the SOPF is an independent agency that may pay claims regarding oil spills from ships. |
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| Visa House is an independent agency specializing in Russian visas for businesspeople and tourists. |
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| Petra was founded in 1969 as an independent agency linked to the Jordanian Ministry of Information. |
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| Credit risk is generally lowest among issuers that have a high credit rating from an independent agency. |
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| Although this decision was made by an independent agency and not the government, I will do everything I possibly can to find a solution. |
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| And then they try to tell us that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is an independent agency. |
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| The team may be affiliated with a hospital, a home health care agency, or organized as an independent agency. |
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| The question which emerges from all the above is: does the European Commission really want an independent agency or not? |
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| It is advisable that an independent agency with good research capabilities be put in charge of this monitoring and evaluation. |
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| It supposedly is a self-supporting independent agency, but it is owned by the federal government. |
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| In effect, the CPB is an independent agency, operating within government, that provides economic policy analysis. |
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| In the opinion of these PEP researchers, an independent agency, not the executive branch of the government, should manage workfare funds. |
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| The PSC, as an independent agency responsible to Parliament for ensuring that the merit principle is applied in resourcing for the Public Service, will be closely monitoring departments' assessment and selection practices. |
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| The TWRA is an independent agency tasked with enforcing all wildlife, boating, and fisheries regulations outside of state parks. |
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| By the end of 2003, we were close to our goal of setting up an independent agency to handle the administration of federal co-operative housing programs. |
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| More generally, it is difficult to see how an institutional change that involves transferring some of the forecasting responsibility to an independent agency would make much of a difference to short-term forecasting accuracy. |
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| This became the second independent agency. |
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| The banking lobby would prefer that over an independent agency. |
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| I think it makes sense and that, with a monitoring and control system, with an independent agency and with a compensation fund in the event of accidents, we have taken a step in the right direction. |
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| Each independent agency has its own statutory responsibility to discharge. |
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| An independent agency by law, that is above the politics and the bureaucracies of the procedures of the government, should be entitled to do the job. |
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| This procedure is monitored and validated by an independent agency. |
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| The State party should take the necessary measures to arrange for the monitoring of respect for human rights in its territory by an independent agency. |
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| As an independent agency, we report our results to Parliament. |
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| There was the view that the independent agency could more readily perform the role of a watchdog because it was thought unlikely that governments would be critical of themselves. |
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| An independent agency is ideally suited to taking a longer-term and strategic look at these changes and anticipate the kinds of law, legislation, processes, institutions and policies necessary to respond to them. |
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