Britain gave the islands their independence in eighteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In Japan in 1997 the government of Japan granted the Bank of Japan independence like the U.S. central bank.

在1997年，日本政府批准了,日本银行像美国中央银行一样拥有自主权。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The only relationship that will work with humans is perhaps one in which there is a balance between unchecked independence and blind obedience, And God seems to find that relationship with Jacob.

唯一与人类建立的有效关系也许是,存在着某一平衡的关系,不受遏制的独立与盲目信仰之间的平衡，上帝好像在雅各布那里找到了这种关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The National Front, spearheaded by the all powerful United Malays National Organization has dominated Malaysia politics since independence in 1957.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

His examples are typically drawn from situations of human beings or polities in extremes where the very survival or independence of a society is at stake.

他的范例是,典型地取材自人类,或政体在极端下的处境,即当存活或一个社会的独立,已面临考验。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Analysts say the Balkan country is struggling with its worst economic slump since independence in 1991, as consumption,investments and exports have tumbled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

We see it in the American Declaration of Independence.

在美国《独立宣言》中可以看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In the late seventeen hundreds, many events that took place in Philadelphia gave birth to the American Revolution and independence.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

One thing that's been a trend around the world is that the I mentioned that the U.S. Federal Reserve System was different from other central banks in that it was designed to have independence.

一个在世界范围内,流行的事实是,我提到过美国联邦储备系统,与其他中央银行不同,因为它有独立自主性。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It would violate the Constitution and the ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence: the idea that all men are created equal...

VOA: special.2010.07.22

And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Harper's magazine would send him to draw pictures of the biggest event in American history since independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

The question is, why does Socrates exhibit such proud defiance and independence of the laws in the Apology, and such total, even kind of mouse-like, acquiescence to the laws in the Crito?

问题是，为何苏格拉底一方面展现了自豪的反抗,及独立于法律之外如同《自辩篇》所载，但这种绝对性，却化为鼠辈般，默认了全部的法律，一如《克里托篇》所载？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

On July fourth, seventeen seventy-six, colonists meeting in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, approved the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Serbia's main ally Russia has recognized the self-declared independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

With William McKinley in the White House again, they saw little chance of gaining independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The war was the worst violence since South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia in 1992.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

For example, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed in the city.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

"But," he went on, "there is no reason in the world why Negroes should not have all the natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

He had commanded the Continental Army in America's successful fight for independence from Britain.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

In February of two thousand eight, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

The Fourth of July is Independence Day in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Sometimes her independence and liberal opinions got her in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Today we tell about Independence Day in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

In eighteen thirty-six,Texas declared its independence from Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

He explained his position many times in speeches,debates and letters, including this one written in eighteen fifty-eight: I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Pakistan and India both have nuclear arsenals and have fought several wars since winning independence from the British in 1947.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Kashmir has been a divided and disputed territory since India and Pakistan gained independence from the British in 1947.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07