Sentence examples for claim their independence from inspiring English sources

Assayas needs to enlarge the ways in which the people in this overdetermined milieu claim their independence.

The change in the law has created a larger opening for many women to claim their independence, using the courts and the local news media.

The original Swiss communities' resentment of what they saw as the Hapsburgs' oppressive taxes helped push them to claim their independence in 1291.

As a rule of thumb, experts and observers will find it easier to convincingly claim their independence when they can point to the existence of a physical distance, that is, when they are sequestered.

On 3 February 1960, he spoke of the political change that was blowing through the continent as African countries lined up to claim their independence from Europe's colonial powers.

Our crusade against that power and its puppet regime in Afghanistan prompted revolutions by small and large countries around the world to claim their independence and sovereignty from the Soviets.

After a bloody rebellion against Panama in 1925, the Kuna claimed their independence and became an autonomous Indian community — with complete control over the use of their land.

What I argue in my book is that large sections of West African peoples have, in the past and the present, proven their ability to transcend parochial identities and differences in a common cause and have indeed claimed their independence of thought and common destiny.

Given that Africa — where some 900 million people live in more than 50 different nations, each with its own history and culture — can hardly be treated as monolithic, one assumes Ngugi means to detect and tug at the common loose thread that has led to the unraveling of so many African states since they began claiming their independence after World War II.

The car has long been an emblem of sexual potency and, at the heart of the consternation about female drivers, I suspect, sits the great male fear that, in taking the wheel, women are also claiming their sexual independence.

Molly Haskell noted that "The closer women come to claiming their rights and achieving independence in real life, the more loudly and stridently films tell us it's a man's world". 1 Women's relationship to technology is perhaps the most threatening relationship the West has known.