Example collocations logo

Independent in sentence

2749 examples of Independent in a sentence

Yet badgering or jailing journalists is no way to resolve what could be handled through a voluntary media council or independent ombudsman.
Furthermore, the government effort to portray independent journalists as vicious enemies unfairly condemns the many Ethiopian reporters and editors who take their responsibilities seriously.
As non-democratic leaders increasingly use the “fake news” backlash to clamp down on independent media, that number is likely to climb.
The international community’s silence in the face of these governments’ attacks on independent media seems to have been interpreted as consent.
In an effort to rein in extremist content, YouTube removed hundreds of videos related to the conflict, including many posted by Shaam News Network, Qasioun News Agency, and Idlib Media Center – all independent news outlets documenting the disaster.
Leaders of the world’s democracies must resist the illiberal assault on independent news organizations, and that means rethinking loosely crafted content laws that are vulnerable to abuse.
But, according to the independent Global Trade Alert observatory, since 2008, China has introduced only 25 measures (referred to as “state interventions”) per year, on average, that might restrict trade with the US.
Independent thinking is an underestimated factor.
This new monetary union would be managed according to the original Maastricht Treaty, with a truly independent central bank responsible for regulating the northern euro’s exchange rate against the euro, which less competitive countries would retain.
Roughly every hundred years since the Lutheran Reformation, the number of independent German political units has fallen by a factor of ten.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia reduced the number of independent units in the Holy Roman Empire from 3,000-4,000 to 300-400.
With its history, culture, and traditions – including its critical, independent, and even rebellious spirit within the former Soviet Union – Georgia would seem to be an ideal candidate for successful democratization.
Finally, and more seriously, the judiciary is not yet independent, undermining the rule of law and thus deterring badly needed private investment.
Meanwhile, independent trade unions have been all but crushed, and oligarchs now declare themselves willing to render their property to the state as needed.
An independent commission certified the 51 countries of the World Health Organization European Region free of polio.
That process, now as before, must culminate in an independent and democratic Palestine alongside a safe and secure Israel.
With little oversight from the central government, and no independent judiciary or a free press to hold them accountable, local authorities in rural areas are often a law unto themselves.
Much of the so-called Third World was either recently independent, or remained colonies; all of it was very poor.
There were 74 independent countries in the world in 1945; today there are 193.
We impress upon potential newcomers the need to plan properly, to train the required number of highly skilled nuclear engineers and scientists, to build the complex technical infrastructure, to establish independent and effective regulatory bodies, and to adhere to international safety standards and security guidelines.
The separation of powers (an independent judiciary and central bank) was undermined in favor of a “strong” state.
That agreement would later develop into NATO, which, for four decades, enabled an alliance of independent democracies with shared values and market economies to withstand the Soviet threat – and which has safeguarded Europe to this day.
But, in that case, Iranian quiescence, not peaceful relations with an independent Palestine, might be Bibi’s true objective.
In Dickens’ England, the judiciary was not independent, and newspapers were subject to state censorship.
This year Israel is celebrating both the 100th anniversary of the founding of Zionism and its 50th anniversary as an independent nation.
One clue as to why they attacked Russia's richest man is the fact that Khodorkovsky is the first oligarch to help the country's liberal parties as opposed to the ruling party of power, to support independent mass media, and to provide money to lawyers and legal assistants.
Countries, with more independent and professional civil servants tend to have higher quality bureaucracies and less corruption.
Organized crime levels are lower in countries with independent judiciaries.
Setting up a new, independent alternative dispute-resolution system outside the courts would cost something, but it would ensure quicker and more acceptable resolution of routine disputes.
The world’s 190-plus states now co-exist with a larger number of powerful non-sovereign and at least partly (and often largely) independent actors, ranging from corporations to non-government organizations (NGO’s), from terrorist groups to drug cartels, from regional and global institutions to banks and private equity funds.
BackNext