The phrase "age of independence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a historical period or a phase in which individuals or nations gain autonomy or freedom from control.
Example: "The age of independence marked a significant turning point in the history of many nations as they sought to establish their own identities."
Alternatives: "era of autonomy" or "period of self-determination".
Progressives are aching for him to usher in a new age of independence for the church, but this is unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all.
But the power of the original lay not just in its stylish bravado but in its quiet, reflective moments: McQueen's bitter commentary on the passing of an age of independence, Vaughn's anguish as his often-tested nerves fail, Bronson's playful instruction of the children of the Mexican village.
Companies such as BT have moved from dependence through the age of independence, the first flush of freedom from the shackles of state control, to the age of interdependence as we search for partners with the requisite skills, local presence and political influence.The alliance between BT and MCI.
Given the rise of its system of global control in a post-World War II age of independence, Washington had little choice but to work not simply with surrogates or puppets, but with allies who -- admittedly from weaker positions -- still sought to maximize what they saw as their nations' interests (as well as their own).
However, following parents could possibly feature 'follow parent for care or possibly die' because the majority who reported this reason were in the age of independence (25 59 years) from their parents.
There probably never was a golden age of accounting independence.
Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (Harvard Univ. Press 2002).
The resulting freedom from any need to import oil from overseas is what has led some analysts to herald a coming age of energy independence.
He painted an Edenic picture of American workers in an age of artisan independence, when it was perfectly all right to take your hat off to nobody because you were your own employer.
His most recent book, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (Harvard University Press, 2002 [paperback ed., 2009]), received the SHEAR Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association, and the J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association.
