They speak openly of their expectation of confrontation and violence when they declare independence.
After that, as there is unlikely to be a deal, the Kosovars want to declare independence.
This kind of combined heat and power might enable more people to declare independence from the grid.
Kitts and Nevis declare independence from the UK and became a single nation.
Second, the PA's unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is threatening to declare independence without a treaty with Israel next summer.
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Indeed, it would seem that the Palestinians would want to hold off on attacks altogether until after they declare independence.
Soon afterwards Kosovo's Albanians (Kosovars) hope to declare independence, becoming the seventh country to emerge from the wreckage of Yugoslavia.
In October 1991, as war raged in neighbouring Croatia, the Bosnian parliament gathered to debate whether to declare independence from Yugoslavia.
Having the spirit, courage and vision to declare independence, at a time when monarchy was the accepted model of government, is impressive.
After months of deliberate ambiguity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the administration opposes the Palestinian plan to unilaterally declare independence.
The Palestinians' threats to declare independence and define Israeli communities as illegal are clear attempts on their part to shape the post-peace process international landscape.
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But the Turkish political establishment is uncomfortable with this, fearing Iraq's autonomous-minded Kurds may declare independence from Baghdad and perhaps inspire Turkey's own restless Kurdish minority.
For the past several months, this profoundly neurotic perception of Israel's options has fed our leaders' hysterical response to the Palestinians' plan to unilaterally declare independence.
Moreover, if, as is quite possible, Montenegro the tiny coastal republic which, along with Serbia, makes up the rump Yugoslavia were to declare independence, other intriguing possibilities would open up.
At least one American diplomat has retorted that, if Russia blocks a resolution endorsing the Ahtisaari plan, Kosovo should declare independence anyway and America, for one, will recognise it.
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At this point Kosovo's parliament will declare independence unilaterally.
They voted to declare independence from Great Britain.
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That idea might not go down well with energy nationalists, who want America to declare independence from all hot and unreliable countries, whether oil producers or agricultural powers, but it shows vision on the scale needed to deal with global warming.
The Turkish army has long feared that the removal of Saddam Hussein could encourage the Kurds of northern Iraq to declare independence, which is why they wanted to send thousands of their own troops into the Kurdish enclave to prevent this from happening.
It's the story of two proud people who struggled to break free from an empire and declare their independence.
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Take the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's threat that he will unilaterally declare Palestinian independence in August 2011.
The Kosovo government announced last month that given the diplomatic impasse, it plans to declare its independence next month.
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