How To Use Independence In A Sentence

The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
Some children may require a great deal of support as they acquire the social skills necessary for maximum independence.
Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
The transfer of control to the patient also provides the priceless gift of independence. Times, Sunday Times

Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
She said the new playground would help give the children greater independence.
So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
Federal Government is the exclusive judge of the extent as well as the limitations of its power, it seems to me to be utterly perversive of the sovereignty and independence of the States. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
As a young man he took well to the Epicurean view of freedom and independence of spirit, though this led him into the alley of atheism.
On the platform were representatives of the UK Independence Party, Conservatives, Lib-Dems, Labour and the Greens, and the usual mud-slinging followed.
Edward III tried to assert his independence of the regime at court.
This has rendered virtually unenforceable the few remaining rules intended to further grand jury independence.
Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum. The View from the North
Once the appointment is made the independence of office puts its holder more or less beyond reach. Times, Sunday Times
The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was years in the making.
Yet we make no apology for fighting for our independence as fiercely as we fight in our journalism to expose wrongdoing and hold the powerful to account. Times, Sunday Times
They parleyed and left us with an imperfect independence.
This is the picture today after more than half a century since Independence.
The parents were permissive with or neglectful of their children, and the adolescents had developed a certain degree of independence.
In the early nineteenth century Greece was the focus of a cultural movement, an idealizing "Hellenism," and international political involvement in the War of Independence against the Ottoman Note: Greece
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) demanded that South Africa "repatriate" all mercenaries fighting with government troops. ANC Daily News Briefing
As a policy for financial independence of women, it creates financial dependence.
In truth, they worked superbly as a team - they were the duumvirate who, in the first, formative years of independence, effectively united and strengthened India.
This might be interpreted as a de facto recognition of the republic's independence.
If we consider the independence of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court has the right to determine the constitutionality of all legislation.
But it is not so clear that this weakening of states increases the possibility of the political independence or autonomy of oppressed nations within them, because the bourgeoisies of the weakened nation-states in question fight back.
The family struggled to agree a formula under which a panel would be established to safeguard editorial independence. Times, Sunday Times
Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- In Idaho Falls hundreds came to the Civic Auditorium to celebrate our day of independence by listening to the founding fathers themselves. LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines
The car became a symbol of independence.
On the other hand, if events adduce to the furtherance of law, independence, freedom, then he spares no effort to squelch it. Never let an oil leak go to waste? | RedState
On 1 July there was a protest march against legislation aimed at criminalizing pro-independence activities.
The recommendations include creation of an independent advisory board composed of international anticorruption experts to protect the independence and strengthen the accountability of INT.
Muhammed Ali westernizes Egypt, asserting some independence from the Ottoman Empire. Latest Articles
He was a mediocre speaker, uncomfortable in circumstances of political manoeuvre, often either too hesitant or too precipitate in action, and wedded to a proud independence that interfered with the building of successful alliances.
On July 11, 1961, the Independent State of Katanga celebrated the first anniversary of its independence by opening an 'International Trade Fair' at Elisabethville. The End of White Rule?
The pickup is as good an expression as any of American independence in 2010. In politics, never dis a pickup
He also expressed optimism that an acceptable constitutional arrangement could be agreed which would obviate the need for Quebec to seek independence.
It is doubtful whether the government will ever accede to the nationalists' demands for independence.
Now the problem which had perplexed Bolyai most in his study of mathematics had been the independence of Euclid's Fifth postulate.
He could feel his eyebrows declare independence-they saluted, they chopped down, they came together like two fuzzy magnets.
At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis. Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?
Independence does not mean contracting out of all relationships with others.
Since independence the term indigenous, widely used in an affirmative action campaign, has applied almost exclusively to blacks and left out whites and other minorities born in the southern African nation - some the descendants of several generations of settlers. ANC Daily News Briefing
Some militants favour independence for Kashmir or union with Pakistan.
she enjoyed her brief taste of independence
Since independence, links between the two countries have grown apace. Times, Sunday Times
fireworks, Fourth of July, United States, Independence Day Peacock Feather/Dragonfly: Pyrotechnicians agree that the blue-violet shades of this peacock feather are the most challenging to formulate.
When women say they want independence, people think this means we don't want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make decisions for ourselves. We want to be free to go to school or to go to work. Malala Yousafzai
That same year, Independence Township in Michigan lost $2 million through its misuse of domestic swaps.
Since gaining independence in 1964, the country has experienced a continuing shift toward urbanization which is reflected in its architecture.
We have just held only the third presidential election since we gained our independence.
To undertake such intervention, governments needed a degree of independence or autonomy from any particular branch or fraction of capital.
Defensive security is defined as a sufficiency of military and economic potentials of the state to repulse possible threats to its independence and territorial integrity.
Since Independence the electorate has been polarized equally between two parties.
Independence came in 1957, and nine years later came the first military coup.
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
His speech laid the groundwork for independence.
The second phase began when disorder among the Spanish emboldened all the provinces to proclaim William their stadtholder, neatly reaffirming his imperial title while underlining their relative independence.
They were created with the aim of appeasing Indian nationalism and preventing India's eventual independence.
We celebrate September 16, the day when Mexico declared independence from Spain .
They were the only country to argue for even token recognition of the Baltic states' independence.
In most cities of that region the expatriate community remained, even after independence, a closed circle.
I must declare myself an Independence-Walla....
I also found a book published five years before the state's independence, called Sabah Men At Work, in the North Borneo Social Studies series which indicated that the name Sabah was known to the public. Undefined
Disability - We're working with lots of groups involving young people with disabilities fighting for independence, integration and rights.
The propriety of his magical lady's injunction not to read can only be equalled by his candid acknowledgment of his independence of the trammels of spelling, although, to use his own elegant phrase, "'twas his neckverse at Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
A major function of the commune was to regulate relations inhering in economic independence, from dividing peasant landholdings equitably to adjusting the rent they paid their owners.
No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking is a matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence. On the Death of Garfield
He steadfastly maintained his independence and never allowed the Bank to become a poodle of political causes.
Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
The manat was formerly divided into 100 gopiks, but this has long since become obsolete due to inflation early in the nation's independence.
It fails to provide the infrastructure for mothers' independence - shelter, childcare and jobs.
Indian Independence of 1857 "-- in its way a very remarkable history of the Mutiny, combining considerable research with the grossest perversions of facts and great literary power with the most savage hatred -- were bound in false covers as" Pickwick Papers, "or other equally innocuous works. Indian Unrest
In the United States, the history of presentation edged weapons goes back to the days of the American War of Independence.
It began to conduct major political campaigns for self-rule and independence.
It seems that the source of Herman's queasiness is rooted in concerns about the property market in Southern Europe, many having holiday homes in the Med; growing commentary on the decline of Southern Europe's economies; a growing crescendo of remarks from Southern Eurpean politicians that are perceived as threatening the independence of the European Central Bank, a sine qua non for Germans to give up the Deutschmark; and a sudden ramping up of German inflation to an official 8.1% (which, if our own experience is anything to go by significantly underplays the reality). Archive 2008-06-08
I'm voting Democrat because protecting barren wasteland is more important than energy independence. Transmitting History
After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, these sarapes became a symbol of Mexican culture.
But in truth we have chosen to shelve the unification-independence dispute and focus on reviving the economy and strengthening Taiwan.
Most important, it has forced scientists to re-evaluate their methodologies, as even Wager's rebuttal concedes that the nonindependence error Vul discusses can in fact inflate correlations (much of the argument is over how much). SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the armed rebellion organization fighting for the independence of Tamil Eelam. WN.com - Photown News
Countries which have won their independence or gone through a nationalist revolution usually change their names, and any country or other unit round which strong feelings revolve is likely to have several names, each of them carrying a different implication. Notes on Nationalism
Consider pattern details that promote independence, such as pull-on pants, rather than zippered or buttoned pants.
Largely established during the colonial era, it hardly changed at all after independence.
Here Doyle's rhetoric begins to echo the US men's movement that campaigns bitterly - if rather quietly - about women controlling the domestic agenda, and tyrannising men with their strident demands for independence.
Or, combine your backup generator with a renewable energy system, and declare your total independence from the grid!
They voted for independence in a referendum.
Because of her sturdy intellectual independence and integrity, Ravitch exempts no sect, ideology, or school from failure and folly.
Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
Each country thinks independence is the cat's paw of the other: a cosmetic cover for nefarious designs.
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
they saw independence as the fast track to democracy
There was little opposition from Athens to the name until FYROM declared independence in 1991. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
Her independence of spirit marked her out from her male fellow officers.
This weekend, Liberia observes its 156th independence anniversary, but there is little to celebrate.
Consequently, the struggles for self-determination took various forms as independence to greater autonomy.
Bahrain officially declared its independence on 14 August of that year.
It is only by maintaining their independence and professional distance from their clients that lawyers can carry out their proper role.
We understand that there are limits to the degree to which the wealthy and the propertied can declare independence from the society of which they are part; that they have reciprocal obligations to the society of which they are part.
Loneliness is a high price to pay for independence in your old age.
Meanwhile, inside the Grand Hyatt's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of our language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate, according to The Associated Press. Moultrie Observer Homepage
Trinidad went through one of the most volatile periods in its history during the 30s as they marched to independence - you had labor struggles, government crackdowns on rabble-rousers and full-on riots in the streets.
People truly do not understand the extent to which new media is not a business," said Marshall Herskovitz, the veteran television producer who last year declared his independence from the networks and created "quarterlife," a web series and social media hub. Sharon Waxman: Can Hollywood Make Like Obama -- and Change?
Loneliness is a high price to pay for independence in your old age.
Often spouses aren't eager to relinquish their newly acquired skills of independence and self-reliance.
Since independence in 1966, Botswana has been a multiparty democracy with elections held every five years to a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, which has been dominated by the Botswana Democratic Party.
Says Burka: "One way to assert your independence is by procrastinating, even if the person you are rebelling against is yourself.
Their desire for independence has to do with brute economics.
Well, it's the earliest images - of independence and freedom, particularly - that do live obstinately on, despite the blessing and the bludgeoning of life's fullness.
This country gained its independence in 1949.
As Honey came back with a plate of ‘bhurji’, a group of policemen, who were probably on bandobast duty for the Independence Day, surrounded her.
Cath was most reluctant to surrender her independence.
Andrew RT Davies: Well no I'm just making the point that there are a couple of Home Rule O'Tooles here in Wales who want to er this independence agenda it's showing up as ten percent in the polls I believe you can't try and wipe out history you have to mark history and there are important events that have happened in history in Wales and I would suggest the investiture is one of those events. Archive 2008-10-01
For all its vaunted independence, the newspaper produced very few exposés and scoops, and it developed very little in the way of new talent.
The teenage years began to take on a self-defining identity like a breakaway state within society, a colony declaring its independence from the past, a banana republic that would work out its own constitution.
Money means mobility, money means independence and personal dignity.
This does not mean that they conduct their audits negligently or sacrifice their independence by condoning accounting treatments that are demonstrably wrong.
a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air of the most determined independence, and he has The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
Frederic Bastiat could have easily been a fellow traveler of thesigners of our Declaration of Independence.
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
The reality of independence was distant from the hopes they had had.
Lu is a maverick who attracts the support of the pro-independence hardliners.
One hundred years ago today, your forefathers declared independence from the tyranny of the rule of my forefathers.
The first 45 years since Independence were marked by terror and tyranny.
It seems that this was their means of asserting their continuing independence of Moscow.
They were inspired by Gandhi's vision of sarvodaya, social and economic programs that would lift up the most marginal members of society and bring economic independence, gram surat, to match political independence, raj surat. Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence upon a former occasion, sentiments which have been put in print and read wherever anybody cared to know what so humble an individual as myself chose to say in regard to it. Last Joint Debate, at Alton. Mr. Lincoln's Reply
Part of the colonial territory of Ruanda-Urundi administered by Germany and Belgium, it achieved independence in1962. The southern portion of the territory became the country of Burundi.
The university defended its research and academic independence yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
At length this cry became a clamor that shook even the old viceroyal palace in Mexico; while in San Antonio it gave a certain pitch to all conversation, and made men wear their cloaks, and set their beavers, and display their arms, with that demonstrative air of independence they called los Americano. Remember the Alamo
The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
Much has been said about nationalism; independence forces one to confront what it means to be ‘Bermudian’.
In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968.
Violent scuffles broke out between rival groups demonstrating for and against independence.
That his company, which went public in 1971, has delivered impressive financial results - particularly in the years after the pressmen's strike - makes that independence and its outstanding journalism possible.
The minister was asked to preside at the independence ceremonies of the small island state.
Neither is upward mobility, rising income or independence a necessary consequence of their diligence.
The proposals also aim to overcome the present problems relating to the independence, accountability and legal liability of external auditors.
He believed that independence was the first duty of a literary man, and that true dignity consists in diligent labor rather than in indolent railing at fate and the scoffings of "uncomprehended" genius. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
As to Mr Oswald's offer to make an acknowledgment of our independence the first article of our treaty, and your Excellency's remark, that it is sufficient, and that _we are not to expect the effect before the cause_, permit us to observe, that by the _cause_, we suppose, is intended the _treaty_, and by the _effect_, an acknowledgment of our independence. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII
Mathewson politely suggested that long tenures were not necessarily synonymous with a lack of independence.
The costume features madras fabric, introduced from India after Antigua won independence.
Moreover, the Malaysian judiciary has been subjected to close political control since independence in 1957.
Potential biases caused by violation of the assumption of independence of observations at the client level were avoided using multilevel models.
Partly to reinforce the commonplace argument that there will always be a special cultural relationship between Scotland and England and that independence would not disrupt that.
No deal is expected until 2012 at the earliest so the theme will be the counterattraction to independence, and will occupy what had been up to now a clear field for the SNP. Slugger O'Toole
There was much to the conceit but it never gained widespread acceptance and the events leading to 1947 and independence always took precedence over what had happened 90 years earlier.
In the interwar era masculinity was defined principally in terms of a man's ability to support a family, rather than his independence from domesticity.
There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success. Ranching, Sport and Travel
Its founding charter ought therefore to declare its independence, and its legal form should embody that independence. Times, Sunday Times
But ask people whether they trust the independence of the big firms and the answer you will get tells you all you need to know. Times, Sunday Times
Many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy.
Economic aid tends to undermine the national independence of third world countries.
Hardly had a century and a half elapsed before the sturdy colonists, who did not claim freedom but determined to keep it, formally revolted and fought their way to absolute independence -- not, by the by, a feat whereof to be overproud when a whole country rose unanimously against a handful of troops. Arabian nights. English
Software libraries that enforce this independence between implementing and calling code are considered loosely-coupled.
Conditions at the time were favourable to his securing political independence.
The fact that the first big shareholder is non - state artificial person promotes audit independence.
Chen read the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable.’
The report found, among other defects, that the Iraqi High Tribunal was undermined from the outset by Iraqi government actions that threatened the independence and perceived impartiality of the court. Iraq
Between rows of monuments, including homages to revolutionary scribe José Martí, independence warrior Antonio Maceo Grajales and the Virgin Mary, is an old ceiba tree, sacred to the Santería religion, where you'll find offerings like candy and cow's tongues. Take Monday Off: Cuban Miami
The price to be paid for the democratisation of taste is a cool ‘aloofness’, but the prize is said to be an independence of judgment that ‘guarantees hard-hitting, candid and uninfluenced commentary’.
The stance on independence represented a victory for the party's radical New Tide faction.
We know that household and village subsistence economies were predominant in India until at least the early years of the independence era.
Those visionaries passed and were replaced by venal men who don't care for independence or sovereignty and who want to sell the country to the US.
Losing my father young put me in a unique position of independence and self-sufficiency, and reliance on my own resources. Times, Sunday Times
As they were divided into clans and tribes, they have fiercely guarded their independence, preserving what has since become a very diverse and fascinating culture.
Freedom need not mean independence.
He shifts to a minute-long docu-reel on the freedom struggle and the subsequent Indian independence in 1947.
As Tim and others have reminded us at great length, this nation was founded on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Just as Ashes cricket is a substitute for the war of independence that Australia has never actually fought, so too is football a venting of the latent aggression, frustration and inarticulate rage within the Australian psyche.
Their fight against and defeat of colonialism brought us political independence.
The United States fought a bloody and repressive war to prevent Filipino independence, and participated in the military operations against the Boxers in China during the summer of 1900.
This can give rise to substantial queries over the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.
Most former European colonies began their independence as nominal democracies, then rapidly moved either to single-party oligarchies, military rule, or both at once.
The country has been able to celebrate the return of its independence so brutally snuffed out in 1940.
The third criterion is the degree of independence possessed by the bank and the juridical basis on which this rests.
In court papers, Ms. Brennan and other city attorneys argued that the medical examiner's "longstanding practice" of disclosing cause of death has been "applied equally to all decedents whether public figures or otherwise, is supported by public policy and reflects the independence of the OCME Office of Chief Medical Examiner from other city agencies. City Autopsy Disclosures Challenged
Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
Within an economy there is some degree of independence of asset returns, and this provides some diversification opportunities for investors who do not venture abroad. International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
And what affronts the system most of all is the idea that the state could help to support women's independence.
The American Borrow Bar Association's Committee on Justicial Judicial Independence is working on guidelines for when judges should recuse themselves.
American history is filled with manifestos of cultural independence paradoxically coupled with exercises in bardolatry and Anglophilia.
They said that Papua was not one of the territories that declared their independence as the Indonesian unitary state on Aug 17, 1945.
Joe Stirt says: "Swiss luxury penmaker Montblanc has just come out with a $23,000 pen to commemorate the austere, asceticleader of Indian independence's birth on this date (October 2) in 1869. Boing Boing
The Boers rebelled against British rule, proclaiming their independence on 30 December 1880.
Power gives us the ability to control, to choose and to assert our independence.
A nascent neo - nationalism is emerging but so too is a cussed independence.
The fact is that no one believes these threats and no one takes a blind bit of notice because they all know that when push comes to shove the maker of the threat wants to be seen as being acceptably more communautaire than he or she is a staunch defender of British Independence. Archive 2007-09-02
In such a harmonious family environment, family members do not exercise a high degree of independence, and collectivism rather than individualism is stressed.
His speech laid the groundwork for independence.
In accepting money from Washington, religious groups will inevitably sacrifice a degree of independence.
Father has decided to give his son a huge sum of money for his independence from the family.
Toddlers from the age of 18 months have a real surge of independence, and food can become a battleground, so resist the urge to force-feed your child.
As a young man he had fought against the British in the American War of Independence , and he felt that written English in the newly independent United States should have a distinctive"American" look.
Italy had thus practically declared her independence.

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