BP agreed to put twenty billion dollars over the next three years into an independent fund to pay claims and damages.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

It never lost entirely its original character as an insurgent movement, independent of the state and hostile to it, making claims that challenge the secular authority.

它从来没有失去充满,反抗精神的本原色,它独立于国家并与之格格不入,公然向世俗权威发起挑战

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is no independent verification of the claims about the fighting because reporters are not allowed into the war zone.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17