Sentence examples for attempts at independence from inspiring English sources

Many Georgians feel that they are being largely ignored by the West, unlike the Baltic nations whose attempts at independence have been closely watched.

The man who financed the American War of Independence was a Welshman, Roger Morris, which is ironic because no one ever funded Wales's various attempts at independence during the last two thousand years or so.

The conversation with her mother allowed her to feel her mother's acceptance, which, in turn, supported her attempt at independence, even though it didn't turn out well as she had hoped.

The Viceroyalty of New Spain managed to survive the early attempts at Mexican independence led by Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos.

Beijing has vowed to use military force against attempts at formal independence and keeps more than 1,000 ballistic missiles facing across the Taiwan Strait.

What attempts were made at independence, and how successful were these? 2. Write a report about a famous explorer, such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Marco Polo, Francisco Pizarro, or Zheng He.

(For an identification of the law book with the legal portion of Deuteronomy, see below Old Testament literature: Deuteronomy.) Josiah also made an attempt at political independence and expansion but was defeated and killed in a battle with the Egyptians, the new allies of the fading Assyrian Empire.

In fact, in 1826, a militia led by Austin aided the Mexican military in suppressing the Freedonian Rebellion, an early attempt at securing independence from Mexico by settlers in the area around Nacogdoches that had resulted largely from a conflict between old settlers and those who had arrived as part of the grant to empresario Hayden Edwards.

In particular, attempts at true domain independence are not fully successful, and will probably never be so.

The Rising, or the Rebellion, as Charles Townshend, after some deliberation, has decided to call it, was a muddled, even a botched, affair, and would probably have been no more successful than the numerous violent attempts at securing Ireland's independence that had preceded it over the centuries, had not the British authorities rushed to execute the leaders.

Even after Independence attempts at social reform by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, like the Hindu Marriage reform act and other social reform bills, faced tremendous opposition.