But many Kashmiris are wary of attempts to portray the situation in Kashmir, where many people profess a desire for independence from both India and Pakistan, and where hundreds of thousands of Indian security forces remain stationed, as normal.
They have concerns over the "independence principle", and profess there is too high a degree of interactivity between the control and safety systems.
In the image of the founders, Confederates professed to fight for liberty and independence from what they considered a tyrannical government; Unionists fought to preserve the nation created by the founders from dismemberment and destruction.
After Mr. Lee's statement last summer, China broke off planned high-level meetings, charging that Mr. Lee was secretly scheming for independence even though he professes to support reunion at some distant point -- after the mainland, too, has become a democracy.
We wanted to get to the root of why so many women felt unable to make a decision and why, among those who'd professed an opinion, so many felt independence wasn't the road to travel.
Professing to be of Irish ancestry and a supporter of Irish independence from Great Britain, Crowley began to espouse views supporting Germany in their war against Britain.
Thomas Paine, whose writing inspired the Declaration of Independence, rejected all religions: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of.
Though he still believes that Bertelsmann, the world's fourth-largest media conglomerate, would have been the "best partner" for AOL, Mr. Middelhoff, 46, professes no disappointment that key members of the foundation that owns Bertelsmann refused to surrender the 164-year-old 164-year-old 164-year-old
The leaders of Serbia and Croatia have professed their agreement to a cease-fire at least nine times since ethnic clashes broke out after declarations of independence by Croatia and Slovenia in late June.
