Sentence examples for independence battle from inspiring English sources

It bears all the markings of an independence battle.

Gordon Brown made a dramatic intervention in the Scottish independence battle last night as he set out moves to rush through new powers to Holyrood if next week's referendum rejects the break-up of the United Kingdom.

Mr Farage said the Queen should make a public statement in support of maintaining the union if the independence battle remains on a knife edge in the days leading up to the September 18 referendum.

But the camps are isolated and demoralised by all the hanging about since the 1991 ceasefire.So Mr Shelley looks instead to the Sahrawis in the territory to prepare for the independence battle by creating a strong civil society.

Mr Brown, whose late intervention in the Scottish independence battle was widely credited as halting the momentum towards a Yes vote, stressed he was not leaving public life and pledged to "fight and fight again" to rebuild the Union.

The former prime minister will enter the increasingly tight independence battle using leaked documents from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to illustrate how the Treasury will help pay for the escalating cost of retirement for Scotland's ageing population if the no side wins the referendum in September.

There will be references to the great sacrifices made by women in the independence battles across the Americas, and talk about how such sacrifices have long been played down by Western historians.

The nine-foot-tall statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, was dedicated in 1920 in honor of those fallen in the first major battles after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Battle of Brooklyn, on Aug. 27, 1776.

10.30am: Session on the independence referendum battle in Scotland, with Ruth Davidson.

The 2014 referendum is supposedly timed to the 700th anniversary of a decisive episode in the first war for Scottish independence, the Battle of Bannockburn.

Not in itself a part of the Wars of Scottish Independence, the battle is significant for its employment of tactics learned in the Scottish wars in a domestic, English conflict.