Sentence examples for granting of independence from inspiring English sources

In 1949 Juliana oversaw the granting of independence to Indonesia.

The granting of independence to the white minority created a problem that led to apartheid".

Its macroeconomic policy, indeed, has been more orthodox than its Tory predecessors', with more fiscal discipline and the welcome granting of independence to the Bank of England.

With the granting of independence to East Timor, even though its circumstances are different, there are growing separatist demands from other provinces.

At the time, the Scottish Assembly bill took up more parliamentary time than any since the granting of independence to India.

It demanded the expulsion from Russia of all Asians and people from the Caucasus and the granting of independence to all of Russia's internal republics in the Caucasus.

It used to be a celebration of the granting of its independence by the United States in 1946.

The granting of limited independence within the French union in 1949 split the Lao Issara, one faction becoming the left-oriented Pathet Lao.

The biggest was probably the granting of full independence to Australia's central bank in 1996, and the bank has discharged its inflation-controlling mission admirably and sometimes bravely.

After the early glory days, both as deputy governor and later in the hotter seat, King basked in the reflected acclaim for what was considered, for a time, to be one of Gordon Brown's greatest historic contributions to the British polity: the granting of operational independence in monetary policy to the Bank of England – that is, the power to determine the official short-term rate of interest.

Following a dispute with the British government regarding terms for the granting of full independence, the predominantly white minority government of the self-governing colony of Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia), led by Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence on 11 November 1965.