Fundamental to the design of this strategy was the consensus achieved during the workshops on the way forward to strengthen the different cultural industry sectors, notably through the establishment of independent sectoral coordinating bodies.

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Cassettes have long been considered obsolete, but the objects have had a cultural resurgence in recent years as independent musicians and labels have returned to the format in droves.

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Mr Ram Mehmi, president of the Shri Guru Ravidass Cultural Association in Darlaston, and a member of Walsall Independent Advisory Group, was involved in viewing the police operation throughout the day.

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More specifically, recently decolonised nations started to argue that, if they were to become truly independent nation-states, it was necessary to address the imbalance in cultural resources and the flow of information between the developed and the developing world.

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The foreign secretary formally approved Mr Kinnock's appointment as head of the state-funded cultural body - after he had been recommended by an independent panel.

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EU, if not yet as a member, include its value as a diplomatic and commercial bridgehead into the energy-rich, newly independent countries of Central Asia, and as a cultural bridgehead into Islam.

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Their faith provides them with a means of judging reality that is independent of the largely post-religious intellectual commissariat that runs the media and the cultural elite in the Western world.

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For instance, for history it says pupils should understand the emergence of an independent United States and its constitution - accompanied with a stricture to respect its ethnic and cultural diversity.

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