Sentence examples for claim independence from inspiring English sources

The alumni decided they wanted to stay together and claim independence from Carnegie.

But Greenland is not about to claim independence any time soon.

It commemorates a battle in 1128 on the outskirts of this city that allowed Portugal to claim independence.

But the failed attempt to claim independence was used as a pretext by a northern military generals to seize power.

Some certainly want to claim independence, as their neighbours in the former Soviet Central Asia were able to do after the collapse of the USSR.

But Mr. Sullivan said his opponent had voted with the president on too many important issues, including health care and education issues, to claim independence.

Today marks 20 years since war ended in Nagorno-Karabakh (NK), an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan that claims independence but, internationally, isn't recognized as independent.

The region of Luhansk also claimed independence.

Beijing sees Taiwan as a Chinese province, while Taiwan claims independence as an island state.

Burundi has endured years of civil war and several genocidal massacres since claiming independence in 1962.

Yugoslavia continued its dissolution, with Montenegro claiming independence from Serbia in May 2006.