But one of Mr Allen's local authority partners, Eric Milligan, who sits on the Lothian and Borders Police Board, said the idea of a single force betrayed the localised history of Scottish policing and threatened the independence of the force.
Too many do not have the independence of mind or force of commitment to do so.
Yet as soon as the Greek nation regained independence in 1830, the force of the moral argument was always on the Greek side.
Genghis Khan by no means fits the pantheon of Soviet heroes, but he has remained a spiritual force for asserting the identity and independence of the Mongolians.
She worked as a clerk in the Israeli Air Force during the war of independence.
DILI, East Timor (CNN) -- As the presence of an international peacekeeping force in East Timor grows, so do the hopes of pro-independence East Timorese after weeks of terror and violence.
They will also be automatically available for those on the new system of personal independence payments (Pip) which come into force next spring.
In case some politicians found it difficult to understand all this, Article 2(4) spelled it out in unequivocal terms: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state".
For the next year or more, it says with some force, no single minister could perform both the functions of negotiating the independence of a whole series of colonies and then making them feel at home in the Commonwealth family.
Andrew Jackson's stunning, overwhelming defeat of the vastly superior British force that had humbled Napoleon firmly secured America's independence.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in December, pledging to force the BOJ to do more, even threatening to strip it of its independence.
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