Sentence examples for sign of independence from inspiring English sources

That's a dangerous sign of independence and initiative, if not intelligence.

Now such as statement would be seen less as a sign of independence as of the RBA overstepping its bounds.

He eventually changed the spelling of his family name, including changing "a" to "e" as a sign of independence.

This began to feel, to the French themselves, less like a sign of independence than of rigor mortis.

Ms. Hathaway evidently changed her mind, and one would like to imagine it as a sign of independence from the pull of Big Fashion.

And that, as such, it is doomed to meet a violent end at the hands of a Danish colonial system that tolerates the depravities of its own agents but mercilessly punishes any sign of independence among the natives.

Over time, he also displayed unusual signs of independence from his Kremlin patrons.

There was speculation about the extent of French backing for the coup; Olympio had shown too many signs of independence.

Under this provision the leaders of the "Workers' Opposition" were purged and all subsequent signs of independence in worker circles repressed.

APPOINTING an official human-rights commission seemed a good idea at the time, but when the creature started showing signs of independence, the Malaysian government had to act.

In the early post-Soviet years, Russian television exhibited signs of independence from the central government, but by the mid-1990s the Yeltsin government was exerting considerable influence.