Sentence examples for guarded independence from inspiring English sources

Its jealously guarded independence is supposed to lend credibility to the system.

Selling some of it, especially to fill part of the gaping hole in the public finances, would both erode that wealth and damage the central bank's fiercely guarded independence.

During the 1940 and '50s the heyday of photojournalism in the magazines Evans, with his prickly, superior intelligence and jealously guarded independence, was not a useful role model for most working photographers.

Universities will be forced to act on high pay, grade inflation and support for disadvantaged students under regulations that will challenge their fiercely guarded independence for the first time.

The autonomy of the rugged, mountainous tribal agencies dates to the era of British rule in India, when Britain, like Pakistan after its founding in 1947, found it wiser not to challenge the region's fiercely guarded independence.

But India's history is quite different from Japan's, and even if India is eager to reap the benefits of a closer relationship with the U.S., it is unlikely to relinquish much of its zealously guarded independence, or sacrifice other important relationships it enjoys with Russia and China, not to mention Brazil or even Cuba and Iran.

Until the age of ninety she fiercely guarded her independence.

But East Asian auto makers have traditionally guarded their independence.

The merged group's bosses have had to adjust to jealously guarded editorial independence.

Williams always guarded the independence of the trust from official sources of research funding, ensuring that it did not just fill gaps left by the MRC.

Congress gave the power to regulate food, drugs and other health products to the nation's health secretary, but that authority was for decades delegated almost wholly to the F.D.A., which jealously guarded its independence.