Sentence examples for proclaimed independence from inspiring English sources

Having loudly proclaimed independence from the outside world, concessions to pressure now look like failure.

Kosovo unilaterally proclaimed independence in 2008, a move that Serbia still refuses to recognise.

"Serbia will never recognise the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo," Boris Tadic, the president, told reporters in Belgrade.

About 1,700 Croats were killed when the Yugoslav Army and rebel Serbs overwhelmed the city after Croatia proclaimed independence.

In the 23 years since the landlocked state proclaimed independence, Alexander the Great has dominated the dispute.

The Estonian provisional government, again headed by Päts, immediately proclaimed independence, but the Soviet government declared the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk null and void, and on November 28 the Red Army took Narva and entered Estonia.

JUNE 1991 -- Croatia and Slovenia proclaim independence.

Using the Albanian spelling of the province's name, they proclaim: "Independence for Kosova!

Both would help alleviate the global isolation Turkish Cypriots have suffered since unilaterally proclaiming independence in 1991.

With one ethnic group after another asserting its identity and proclaiming independence, the Turks faced political eclipse.

I agreed that over years we Palestinians have won small battles that wound up being of little practical consequence, like proclaiming independence in 1988.