Robin: The problem at its roots is that large parts of the South want to have very large amounts of autonomy if not independence and this is not acceptable to the authorities in Khartoum.
It was his loyalty, not his independence, that qualified him for the top job.
Albans, where the emphasis was not on independence but on a sense of team.
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In other words, they are defending not Croatian independence but their own privileges.
The Scottish government believed they already had the authority to hold a consultative referendum on more powers if not full independence.
The party's mild-mannered candidate is campaigning not for independence but on a classic by-election slogan: as a chance to protest against Labour.
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's not that independence would necessarily upset the applecart, as the Scottish government, headed by an oil economist, appears to be alert to the industry's need for consistency.
The commission - which will not examine independence - has been tasked to review devolution and recommend changes to enable the Scottish Parliament to better serve the people and "continue to secure the position of Scotland in the United Kingdom".
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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Because then the pressure will remain on him from within his party and from outside, not least the UK Independence Party, saying they are not willing to wait for those ifs, saying they are not willing to wait all that time, saying that they are not willing, in other words, to trust him.
Clinton also announced that she would not be attending the Independence Party Convention on Monday because she did not want to run on the same line with Patrick Buchanan.
Serbia, which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999, does not accept its independence.
Too many do not have the independence of mind or force of commitment to do so.
But, he added, economic and legal powers did not mean an independence referendum was no longer necessary.
This would make the bank more accountable to parliament, while not reducing its independence in monetary operations.
Serbia - which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999 - does not accept its independence.
For much of his career Mr Mas did not favour full independence, but now supports secession from Spain.
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The danger, though, is that the north will not accept southern independence, especially as the region contains most of Sudan's oil.
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Solitary electrons in a superconductor do not maintain their independence for long.
The status of Abyei does not threaten southern independence per se.
With the very act of opposing the Franco-British consensus on Libya, Berlin already has shown a level of assertiveness and foreign policy independence not seen in some time.
But a spokeswoman for Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell insisted the BBC's license review would not be used to "settle scores" and would not compromise the independence of the BBC.
So the call has gone out to everyone in Scotland and beyond - not forgetting that independence would affect people living and working in the rest of Britain as well - to contribute their views.
The Bush administration's natural refusal to provide written guarantees that it did not support Kurdish independence only deepened Turkish suspicions that the Americans had a secret agenda in northern Iraq, though this was, and is, unlikely.
Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, claimed the SNP was "riding high" in the polls, not because of support for independence, but because they were not the Labour party - which led Holyrood's coalition government for eight years.
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