Sentence examples for independence dispute from inspiring English sources

Voices against independence dispute this assertion, saying a go-alone Scotland would be a new member state and would therefore have to be accepted by all other existing states.

Moving to the subject of Lisbon, Smith stressed that this was separate from the independence dispute, then overruled Dupont's announcement of two days before: Reedman's appointment would remain provisional until further notice, he said.

However, UK diplomats point out that Kosovo's independence was disputed.

That Ukraine has been badly run in its two decades of independence is beyond dispute.

By appointing Mr Chote the new chair, the chancellor has chosen a candidate whose credentials for independence are beyond dispute.

Soon after independence, a serious dispute arose between Banda, the prime minister, and most of his cabinet ministers.

Immediately after independence, a pipeline dispute with the Sudanese government in Khartoum led to a shutdown in oil production, eating into the new South Sudan's reserves.

In August, an octogenarian Quebec poet, Raymond Levesque, called independence referendums "family disputes" that should be closed to immigrant voters.

Lugansk is in Ukraine's east near its border with Russia, an area that has seen separatists seize government buildings and declare independence after holding disputed referendums.

"We are lucky that the conflict in Abkhazia and South Ossetia did not touch us, but we still lost visitors," he said of Georgia's 1991 and 2008 wars over breakaway regions whose independence is still disputed.

Separatist insurgents in the two regions declared independence after they disputed referendums earlier this month and have pledged to derail the presidential poll.