Then -- if he was elected president -- the Democrats could give the Philippines their independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

It is the center of his life and it explains the Greeks devotion to the independence, to the autonomy of the polis, and their desire to beautify and make it as great as it could possibly be.

这理论是伯里克利的一生所求,并且它解释了希腊人民,为何对独立,对城邦的自治权,如此忠护,以及他们为何如此渴望,去竭尽全力地美化和建设城邦

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That was the year Mexicans got their independence after years of revolt against Spanish rule.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

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

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The British only stayed for a week, then marched out of town on July 4th, five years to the day after the American colonies had first declared their independence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

It represented the alliance between their two countries during America's war for independence from Britain.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

"I don't think this is going to have that big an effect on either side, whether it's the states who want to maintain their territorial integrity against the aspirations of some of their own indigenous people or, for that matter, movements that want to seek their own independence and freedom."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

Ties between Washington and New Delhi are at perhaps their warmest since Indian independence.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Analysts say the advent of the born-frees has changed political discourse and obliged leaders to stop relying for votes on their role in the independence struggle.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Colonel Gadhafi is currently president of the African Union and he recently told U.N.chief Ban Ki-moon the warrant against Mr.Bashir constituted a "grave precedent against the independence of less powerful states, their sovereignty and their political choices."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26