Would the public understand a decision to resist more powers from a party whose funding objective is not just independence but to advance the interests of Scotland?
It wants a straight yes-or-no referendum on independence, distrusting hints from Mr Salmond that he might put more than one question to Scottish voters, offering them not just independence but also a form of deep devolution that would leave little more than defence and foreign policy in British government hands.
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"Maybank was established in 1960, when the country had just achieved independence, " recounts Amirsham.
This will require not just declaring independence from the Saudi-led oil monopoly, but taking the steps necessary to secure our freedom.
Kuwait had its first general elections in 1962, just months after independence, but parliament has been suspended twice since then.
While business, having just regained its independence and dignity, is leery of reentering an unequal and self-destructive relationship with the Obama administration.
And if--they just got their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Chechnya did not become interested in independence just recently.
However, just as the independence of the film star loosened the iron grip of the studio system, so too the independence of the star professor will loosen the grip of the collegiate tenure system.
This holds particularly true for Motorola Mobility, a company that just won its independence and is still in the throes of trying to claw its way back into the big leagues after years of mismanagement -- the Atrix 4G and Droid Bionic are Big Deals for Moto, and the company undoubtedly intends to get them right.
EU ensuring that the new president will be keen to show his independence not just of France and Germany, but of Britain too.
And there's no sense of resignation in Wolf's singing, just a ferocious declration of independence.
But there are more auditor independence conflicts than just providing prohibited services to audit clients.
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Indonesia, previously ruled by just three men since declaring independence in 1945, has had plenty of experience of those.
Campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, President Clinton told a crowd of about 5, 000 that he had just seen the movie "Independence Day, " in which alien spaceships destroy the White House.
"It's a way of expressing themselves as a group, " says Miyamoto Masao, social critic and author of the book Straitjacket Society, who sees the oversized socks as just one sign of increasing independence among today's teens.
Mr Lajcak, whose country has just marked 20 years of independence, said he was aware of the discussion "going on" about whether an independent Scotland would continue as a member of the European Union or have to reapply as a new state.
They are in no hurry to give up their independence or raise children just because they now can.
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Such people, old disciples of the late Andreas Papandreou, Greece's long-serving populist leader, have portrayed Mr Ocalan and the rebel Kurds as noble guerrillas fighting for independence from Turkey, just as Greeks did in the last century.
Just inside them are the town barracks, built to defend the town in 1717, 10 years after the Act of Union which formally ended Scots independence - but crucially just two years after the Jacobite Rising of 1715.
MBO, a company that specializes in providing services to this happy group, has just published its second State of Independence report, which documents the scale and attitudes of independent work in the United States and has some surprising things to say about who is happy, and who is happier.
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Micato is a family business started by Felix and Jane Pinto in 1966, just three years after Kenya got its independence from Britain.
He was one of the 4x100 metre team that won Trinidad and Tobago's first-ever Olympic medal in Tokyo in 1964, just two years after his nation gained independence from Britain.
It is now time for the industry to take a leadership role in addressing any lingering safety concerns so that we may finally make energy independence a reality, not just a platitude.
That is just as likely to dull the appetite for independence as to whet it.
Four republics declared independence during the 1990s, leaving just Montenegro and Serbia.
Just what ethanol does for the cause of energy independence is a matter of controversy.
Qwest may be just too dangerous for its own long-term independence.
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They also say it poses a centralising threat to judicial independence that could, eventually, prove just as dangerous to the rule of law as today's corruption and inefficiency.
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