( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

The year 1747 marks the definitive appearance of an Afghan political entity independent of both the Persian and Mughal empires.

: These views were made clear in a disclaimer printed in the Factbook: " Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation of a joint independent state, but this entity has not been recognized as a state by the United States.

An underlying principle in Taoism states that within every independent entity lies a part of its opposite.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative ( DCMI ) incorporated as an independent entity, separating from OCLC, in 2008 that provides an open forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards for a broad range of purposes and of business models.

The former wanted the duchies to become an independent entity within the German Confederation, while the latter wanted to annex them.

Both the biblical and Assyrian sources speak of a massive deportation of people from Israel and their replacement with settlers from other parts of the empire – such population exchanges were an established part of Assyrian imperial policy, a means of breaking the old power structure-and the former Israel never again became an independent political entity.

It was a political entity composed of villages, and each village was autonomous and independent with its own territory and name, each recognized by its neighbors.

The HERO System itself was not released as an independent entity until 1989, as Steve Jackson Games ' GURPS ( Generic Universal Roleplaying System ) became more popular.

However, in the case of Hong Kong, irredentism was incidental: The New Territories part of the British colony were only on a lease expiring in 1997 anyway and, with their surrender, it was thought the Crown territory of Hong Kong itself would be nonviable as an entity independent of mainland China.

* 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.

From a legal point of view, in an acquisition, the target company still exists as an independent legal entity, which is controlled by the acquirer.

Subsequently, neither Korean entity recognises the opposite as an independent country in a circumstance similar to Republic of China and People's Republic of China.

References to Nepal in the Mahabharata epic, in Puranas and in Buddhist and Jaina scriptures establish the country's antiquity as an independent political and territorial entity.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

Accordingly, Qatar declared independence as a separate entity and became the fully independent State of Qatar on September 3, 1971.

The basic idea is that when a quantum system interacts with a measuring apparatus, their respective wavefunctions become entangled, so that the original quantum system ceases to exist as an independent entity.

It stems from the Rabbinic conception of monotheism that God exists by himself for himself, and is the uncreated Creator who is independent of any concept, force, or entity (" I am that I am ").

Only Dana Corporation is still in existence as an independent entity.

Another ecclesiocracy was the administration of the short-lived State of Deseret, an independent entity briefly organized in the American West by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Originally more financially-integrated with the World Bank Group, the IFC was established separately and eventually became authorized to operate as a financially autonomous entity and make independent investment decisions.

An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity ( such as a county ).

Mercian power collapsed in the years following Offa's death in 796, and the South Saxons re-emerged as an independent political entity.

After Pelayo's victory over the Moorish detachment at the Battle of Covadonga, a small territorial independent entity was established in the Asturian mountains that was the origin of the kingdom of Asturias.

At one point in early 2007, Somerfield was also briefly surpassed in size by Waitrose, and the independent grocers ' distributor, Nisa-Today's, is comparable in size.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

The accuracy of measuring the total electrical energy entering an exploding wire during a few microseconds was verified when two independent types of comparison with the heat energy produced had an uncertainty of less than 2 percent.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

Philip Staffe, the ship's carpenter, was a good worker, but perversely independent.

There was no confirmation of such massive assaults from independent sources.

So, for all practical purposes, it was an independent nation and by now had its own organized government ( unrecognized outside its own borders ).

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

The Kingdom of Pontus was independent from the 3rd century BC, until the middle of the 1st century BC.

Since the minting of coins was a prerogative accorded in Islamic practice only to a sovereign, it can be considered that Osmanli became independent of the Mongol Khans.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

Argon was also encountered in 1882 through independent research of H. F. Newall and W. N.

After the American Revolution, the parishes in the newly independent country found it necessary to break formally from a church whose Supreme Governor was ( and remains ) the British monarch.

Ultimately, the fifth postulate was found to be independent of the first four.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.