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‘Independence can be for a country.’

[(k independence.n) for.p ⟨det country.n⟩]

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Greek War of Independence was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
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I guess Malaysians have forgotten what our forefathers did to gain independence for our country.
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A growing feeling of nationalism striving for independence for this country lead many societies and movements to look for guidance and motives in other countries than Denmark.
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L L i ascended the throne in 1428, ending his 10 – year campaign, and reclaimed independence for the country.
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Independence for Iraq.
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Britain had promised the local Arabs, through Lawrence of Arabia, independence for a united Arab country covering most of the Arab Middle East, in exchange for their supporting the British; and Britain had promised to create and foster a Jewish national home as laid out in the Balfour Declaration, 1917. 1948 Palestine War.
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Margai was a founding member of the Sierra Leone National Party, which was formed in 1949 to advocate and aid in the transition to independence for the country.
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Ruling out independence for Taiwan during his term, Ma opened weekend charter flights with China and allowed Chinese tour groups to visit Taiwan starting July 4.
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He actually does not want total independence for his country, as he has many times repeated, but only more autonomy.
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These literary successes “ultimately won intellectual, linguistic, and educational… independence for Croatia.
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And let’s say that the Russian Kristol saw the following happen over the years: (1) the Soviet Union collapsed; (2) NATO and the West began militarily encircling a country whose foreign policy has been obsessed for 60 years with avoiding another WW2 – style invasion; (3) NATO humiliated an impotent Russia by bombing the holy crap out of Serbia and then supporting independence for Kosovo; (4) a hated uber – nationalist neighbor (Georgia) wanted to join this military alliance (NATO!); (5) said hated neighbor launched an attack essentially rubbing Russia’s nose in it.
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However, almost all nations in the international community, except Iceland, hesitated to recognize independence for Lithuania until August 1991.
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Now, Queen Anne was on the throne, and there was a campaign to join England and Scotland in a parliamentary union, thus closing the “back door” to England that Scotland represented to the French The failure of the Darien expedition had aroused a strong feeling of resentment against England, and Fletcher and the Country party seized the opportunity to obtain a greater degree of independence for their country.
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Also, my friend is not big on the Kosovo analogy, pointing out that Russia was meddling in South Ossetia long before Kosovor independence (the John O’ Sullivan point that was discussed in here the other day); that the Russians have actively been stoking the conflict in South Ossetia in a way we weren’t in Kosovo (prior to the Kosovo war, we wanted to smooth the dispute over, but failed); that we weren’t particularly enthusiastic about independence for Kosovo, but accepted it as a fait accompli, because a people who are 90 – something percent Kosovar Albanian and had been the victims of horrific acts of ethnic cleansing weren’t as a practical matter going to go back to the status quo.
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During the last stages of Franco’s dictatorship between 1973 and 1975, Lejarza infiltrated ETA, a paramilitary group seeking independence for the Basque Country, and was responsible for the fall of one quarter of the terrorist activists of the organisation – including Special Forces members and some top – level figures of the group.
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Corn – based ethanol is the first step on a stairway that leads upwards to fuel independence for our country; it isn’t the whole stairway.
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On May Day, the clandestine PPA organized demonstrations in twenty – one towns across the country, with marchers demanding freedom for Messali Hadj and independence for Algeria.
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After his election, he and Philip Gunawardena (the other LSSP member of the State Council), acting as people’s tribunes used the State Council as a platform to carry forward the party’s struggle to gain full independence for the country from the British.
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Ethnically based parties in Ro Muni favored independence for a united country comprising Bioko and Ro Muni, an approach that ultimately won out.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.