Sentence examples for earn independence from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, I thought, maybe I should see princess mania as a sign of progress, an indication that girls could celebrate their predilection for pink without compromising strength or ambition; that at long last they could "have it all": be feminist and feminine, pretty and powerful, earn independence and male approval.

You aren't going to earn independence if you can't show that you can handle it.

David decides to take the lead in opposing the Conqueror in hopes of earning independence for Athlum, which is currently a vassal state to the city of Celapaleis.

In 1962, not long after Fidel Castro led a Communist revolution in Cuba, Jamaica earned full independence.

In her first novel, "Officer Down," Schwegel got inside the head of a female cop who earns her independence the hard way when she's suspected of killing her partner.

India earned its independence 66 years ago but it is in the past six years, since the RTI Act was launched in 2008, that citizen engagement has flourished.

While the country's official languages are Hindi and English (when the country earned its independence in 1947, the states couldn't agree to be represented by a single local tongue) there are over a thousand recognised dialects, and 22 official languages spoken by over a million people.

He earned his "independence".

Bahrain is made up of 33 islands in all and the largest is Bahrain Island, and the nation earned its independence from Persia in 1783.

Three years later, some of these girls had initiated or completed their formal education; others expressed their opposition to early marriage; still others convinced their husbands to delay pregnancy and earned financial independence.

He finds it fitting that another immigrant will now be able to earn money and independence from the store that gave those essentials to him.