'obtain independence' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about a country, a group, or an individual gaining their independence from a country or group they had been previously controlled by. For example, "On July 4, 1776, the United States of America declared its independence and officially obtained its independence from Britain."
"One of our goals is to obtain independence," said Vittus Qujaukitsoq, a prominent labor union leader.
Eleven years later, as Iraq, it became the first mandated territory to obtain independence.
Furthermore, some Muslims are angry at the military role that Australia played in helping East Timor to obtain independence from Indonesia.
FOR its own commercial reasons, Britain did more than any other outside power to help the Latin American republics obtain independence.
Speaking at a joint press conference with the French president, François Hollande, Rajoy said: "It's very clear to me, as it is for everybody else in the world, that a country that would obtain independence from the EU would remain out of the EU, and that is good for Scottish citizens to know and for all EU citizens to know".
We applied the CRF process to obtain independence from the characteristics of the image itself.
Before Ukraine obtained independence, there was bitter rivalry between Dynamo Kiev and their Muscovite opponents.
Georgia disputes the claim that the regions have obtained independence by themselves.
The advance by Séléka is the latest in a long history of chronic instability in the CAR since it obtained independence from France in 1960.
After Cyprus obtained independence (1960) from Britain, Denktash was among those who accused the Greek-dominated government of oppressing the Turkish minority and seeking eventual unification with Greece.
"South Sudan has not systematically destroyed surplus or non-serviceable firearms since obtaining independence in 2011," the report said, adding that the government failed to record its arms stockpiles, meaning the weapons can be taken illicitly.
