Sentence examples for as if independence from inspiring English sources

The SNP said that Labour had lost its soul and ditched its principles, almost as if independence was somehow going to restore common ownership of "the means of production, distribution and exchange", as stated in the 1918 Labour party constitution.

After the French were defeated it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the Geneva agreements.

In order to quantify uncertainty in the dose prediction, it is useful to list the contributing parameters and then assess the uncertainty of each parameter, as well as correlations between those measures if independence cannot be assumed.

As if demanding independence were not damaging enough to the pro-democracy cause, some independence campaigners are using brash tactics that are guaranteed to backfire.

If independence is defined as not needing the aid and support of others, it risks becoming a recipe for isolation instead.

How might it change if independence were to happen?

Look at his raging-red crabs rampant against an arsenical green ground, as if protesting their independence: the wildest crustaceans in art, perpetually avant-garde; or the dynamically worked surface of his white roses, incandescent against a pale green wall.

Marston does nothing by rote, each detail feels specially minted, from the ritualistic gesture with which Jane encloses her face, as if protecting her independence of mind, to the slow, poignant dip into plié as she pirouettes towards Rochester and first feels the inexorable tug of sexual passion.

Another (actually the first paper on the subject), by Robert Mundell, stressed labor mobility: you don't need as much policy independence if unemployed workers can move to where the jobs are.

The Chinese government recently summoned the local representatives of Taiwanese companies with ties to Mr. Chen and his party to warn them that their mainland operations would be penalized if they were perceived as advocating independence for the island.

Nor can one attain independence as if on Seamless, substituting a few taps on the phone for an inconvenient call.