Sentence examples for recognised independence from inspiring English sources

Taiwan began its era of de facto (if rarely, these days, officially recognised) independence in 1949 when Nationalist forces fled to the island as Mao Zedong's Communists won China's civil war.

However, in the late 1970s he supported the moves which led to majority rule and internationally recognised independence for Zimbabwe.

The national anthem lost its legal status in December 1979, when the UK took interim control of the country pending its internationally recognised independence as Zimbabwe five months later.

The national anthem remained unchanged on 12 December 1979, when Zimbabwe Rhodesia came under British control for an interim period before internationally recognised independence came in April 1980, with the country now called Zimbabwe.

Since the country's reconstitution and recognised independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, Robert Mugabe's administration has pulled down many monuments and plaques making reference to the dead of the First and Second World Wars, perceiving them as reminders of white minority rule and colonialism that go against what the modern state stands for.

Since the country's reconstitution and recognised independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, Robert Mugabe's administration has pulled down many monuments and plaques making reference to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars, perceiving them as reminders of white minority rule and colonialism that go against what the modern state stands for.

France, having failed to quell the nationalists by deposing the popular Sultan Mohammed V and already fighting a bloody war of independence in Algeria, recognised Moroccan independence in 1956.

Hungary recognised Croatian independence with the rest of the European Economic Community, and supported Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence and its efforts to join NATO and the EU.

Kosovo, which is largely Albanian, broke off in 2008, although Serbia has not recognised its independence.

Resentment persists against EU countries that have recognised the independence of Kosovo, which Serbia still claims as its southern province.

Russia, reckons Mr Haber, lost its leverage over Georgia when it recognised the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.