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Independent in sentence

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They learned to speak the language of democracy, gaining money and influence in the process and enlisting independent organizations to defend their rights and privileges.
Seemingly independent businesses are mostly beholden to government supporters, who typically take a cut of the proceeds.
Iran lacked an independent judiciary, basic press freedoms, and civil society organizations.
Elsewhere, state governments have taken the more radical step of establishing special redistricting commissions that are independent of the two dominant political parties.
Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a pluralist legislature helped to hold for such practices up public debate.
(Full disclosure: I am now an independent Director of Morgan Stanley.)
And, in an economy with approximately 600 small independent banks and too many branches, should consolidation be encouraged and supported?
Extra-regional terrorist movements such as al-Qaeda have minimal presence in South America, with little independent operational activity and few ties to local violent movements.
An independent body of experts that publicly calls for member states to correct their macroeconomic course – based on objective and comprehensible indicators, such as unit labour costs – could make an important contribution in this regard.
Yet we will work with the Iraqi people in whatever way we can to encourage the emergence of a stable, constructive, and independent member of the Arab world.
How the Palestinians choose to respond to these changed circumstances may well determine whether or not they at last achieve an independent state.
For eight years, it never stopped forecasting that the budget would return to surplus by 2011, even though virtually every independent forecast showed that deficits would continue into the new decade unabated.
But, in order to get buoyant budget forecasts out of the rival Congressional Budget Office, which is more independent than the OMB, a more extreme strategy was required.
Or Britain might have joined the euro, making its independent role redundant.
Ever since psychiatry emerged as an independent field of medicine, it has stood in the shadows of other specialties, never progressing scientifically as fast as neurology, oncology, or cardiology.
That would be a relief to Republican Party leaders, who recently obtained Trump’s vow (easily undone) not to mount an independent presidential campaign should he fail to win the party’s nomination.
Now Obama wants to shift responsibility to an independent commission composed of Democrats and Republicans.
By opting for cooperation, China can avoid a situation in which Japan is tempted to play an increasingly independent security role, which in some respects it is already beginning to do – indeed, in some significant respects.
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, an independent body that evaluates tax proposals before Congress, Americans earning more than $1 million per year will see their annual tax bill fall by an average of $12,865 over the next decade.
The vendetta against independent groups with foreign ties brings Russia no benefits and damages its international reputation.
It is a legacy still mired in the murky world of “front organizations”: real “foreign agents,” apparently independent and devoted to worthy causes, but secretly controlled from abroad.
This would entail reinstating pay-as-you-go rules and establishing an independent commission to submit to Congress amendment-proof (and filibuster-proof) recommendations for tax and expenditure reform.
Having secured an independent Irish state, Catholics in the Republic of Ireland came to accept the existence of a settler enclave in Northern Ireland.
It would also strengthen the European Parliament’s call for an independent international investigation of the murder of the Russian opposition political leader, former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, and bolster his family’s petition for an international investigation.
In the realm of health, research in India has found that literacy leads to significantly better health outcomes – independent of household income.
Arafat set forth a blueprint including an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and a fair and just solution to the refugee problem.
But the terrorist attacks on the US in September 2001 pressed Japan to recognize that it must begin to exercise greater autonomy and independent judgment in formulating and implementing its national security policies.
Other independent radio and television stations have been regulated or coerced off the air as well.
Security forces attacked peaceful protesters, jailed opposition leaders, sent thousands of their supporters to gruesome detention camps, and accused independent journalists of treason – a crime punishable by death.
Meanwhile, the authorities continue their assault on independent media through capricious licensing rules, interrogations, and, on occasion, revoking the permits of reporters for international broadcasters like the Voice of America.
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