Sentence examples for independence talks from inspiring English sources

He led the party to victory in the 1973 elections and, as prime minister, opened independence talks with the Dutch government, even though the idea was unpopular with the electorate and had not been mentioned in his manifesto.

After becoming prime minister in 1973, Mr. Arron led independence talks and startled some in 1974 when he predicted that Suriname would gain autonomy within a year, which it did.

As others have pointed out, the election campaign will itself consume politicians' attention at just the time progress needs to be made in independence talks, and the prospect of a change of UK government partway through makes it hard for the government to do much before the election.

On 29 July, Smith fielded questions from the press, commenting on both Lisbon and the independence talks in general.

Independence talks between Britain and Rhodesia continued for a fortnight without major reference to the Reedman appointment, with Britain more concerned with discussing a possible Rhodesian unilateral declaration of independence (UDI).

Sharing a television platform with Smith on 3 September, Welensky talked of the economic and political dangers of a UDI, but nonetheless wished Smith luck when he departed for independence talks in London.

He warned allowing independence talk to go unchecked would harm territorial integrity, national security and competitiveness.

"We honored the vows of our founders who in the Declaration of Independence talked about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Beijing's fears of independence talk in Hong Kong may be enough to have it preempt the courts, said Michael Tien a member of the Legco from the pro-Beijing New People's party and a member of the NPC.

The same is true if China, making good on its bluster in response to independence talk, tries to take Taiwan by force and the U.S. intervenes.

He expressed the belief that Rhodesia had made more progress towards independence talking with Hughes than it ever had before, but qualified this by saying only Wilson's reply to the proposals given to Hughes would show if this were indeed true.