Sentence examples for independence arguing from inspiring English sources

The landesbanks continue to fiercely defend their independence, arguing that they play a crucial role in lending to business.

But he rests his case both on the Bible and, more originally, on the Declaration of Independence, arguing that you need to apply the declaration to unborn children in exactly the same way as Lincoln applied it to slaves.

Many Papuans remain fiercely committed to independence, arguing that the process by which Indonesia achieved sovereignty over Papua in 1969 — a vote by 1,025 Papuan elders handpicked by the Indonesian authorities — was flawed.

Speaking earlier on the BBC's Today programme, Osborne denied he was threatening Scotland over the consequences of independence, arguing there was a legitimate right to question whether the other countries in the UK wished to form a currency union with Scotland.

He suggested Scotland needed a "dose of tough love" and the government should withdraw the bill and hold a referendum on independence, arguing that, if confronted with the facts, most Scots would not want to break away from the UK.

Supporters of independence argue that an independent Scottish government could have more money to spend on improving the system.

Advocates of independence argue that if Scots vote yes next year, it would be in everyone's interest to agree to an amicable divorce.

Its independence, argues those worried by precedents, will be seized on by separatists from Catalonia to Chechnya (to say nothing, nearer home, of the Bosnian Serb republic).

Supporters of Kosovo's independence argue that Mr. Milosevic's brutal subjugation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo forsook Serbia's moral and legal claim to rule the territory.

Given the costs of national division, decentralisation is sometimes preferable to outright independence, argues Mr Spolaore in a paper published in 2008.Within such tie-ups, transfers of government revenue between regions can become a sore point.

Since 1999, Scots have had their own elected assembly in Edinburgh as well as their seats in the British Parliament, which opponents of independence argue gives Scottish voters representation at two levels of government decision-making, more than they would have with their own separate state.