All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

The Congo should have been mandated, because it was not ready for independence.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

or we may say that his attitude was commendable, showing his independence of mind, in his refusal to adjust to the opinions of others.

The Istiqlal found that the spontaneous solidarity of the independence struggle was not easily transposed to the more concrete, precise problems of internal politics.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

She liked this taste of authority and independence, and, with darkness, was not likely to give it up.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

A final factor which contributed greatly to the fragmentation of the Congo, immediately after independence, was the provincial structure that had been established by the Belgians for convenience in administration.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

The birth of Algerian cinema goes back to independence in 1962, which was the main subject of different movie productions of that time.

Beyond improving their existing association, the records of the Second Continental Congress show that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.

Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.

Until independence, Armenia's economy was based largely on industry — chemicals, electronic products, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber and textiles ; it was highly dependent on outside resources.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

In the Middle East, the Suez crisis of 1956 as well as the preceding crisis in Iran, demonstrated the sharp upsurge of nationalism, which was as assertive of the region's social and economic aspirations as of its political independence.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

At Paris, he was influenced by the Gregorian Reform ideals of churchly independence from Monarchical rule.

This provision was the result of various monarchs ' influencing judges ' rulings, and it assured nearly full judicial independence.

* Confederation of the Equator ( 1824 ): Was a short-lived rebellion that occurred in the northeastern region of Brazil during that nation's struggle for independence from Portugal.

On the ground in Poland in October – November the final upsurge of the push for independence was taking place, with Ignacy Daszyński heading a short-lived Polish government in Lublin from November 6.

After a short-lived period of independence under the Terzi family ( 1404 – 1409 ), Sforza imposed their rule ( 1440 – 1449 ) through their associated families of Pallavicino, Rossi, Sanvitale and Da Correggio.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

This position of dominance was short-lived, as Wiglaf returned and restored Mercian independence in 830, but the expansion of Wessex across south-eastern England proved permanent.

The Federation, however, was short-lived and on 28 May 1918, the Dashnak leader Aram Manukian declared the independence of Armenia.

* June 20 – The short-lived Mali Federation, consisting of the Sudanese Republic ( now the Republic of Mali ) and Senegal, gains independence from France.

* May 24 – Anti-Japanese officials led by Tang Ching-sung in Taiwan declare independence from the Qing Dynasty, forming the short-lived Republic of Formosa.

However, independence was short-lived as Indonesia annexed the territory soon after.

The independence uprising was the first of a dozen similar incidents that took place in Alta California during the Mission Period ; however, most rebellions tended to be localized and short-lived due to the Spaniards ' superior weaponry ( native resistance more often took the form of non-cooperation ( in forced labor ), return to their homelands ( desertion of forced relocation ), and raids on mission livestock ).

Following Belgian Congo's independence as the Republic of the Congo ( Léopoldville ) in 1960, Belgian interests supported the short-lived breakaway state of Katanga ( 1960 – 1963 ).

However, in the Don Rosa story " His Majesty, McDuck " ( Uncle Scrooge Adventures # 14, Gladstone Aug. 1989 ) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within the U. S.

After the outbreak of German invasion into USSR on 22 June, the June Uprising against the retreating Red Army began in Kaunas and a short-lived period of independence was proclaimed in Kaunas on 23 June 1941.

Although the Army's senior officers did not share many of their soldiers ' political opinions, their independence from Parliament led to the Army's willingness to contribute to the overthrow of both the Crown and Parliament's authority, and to establish a short-lived Commonwealth, which included a period of direct military rule.

The USSR, which had grafted onto the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic several countries that had had short-lived independence ( Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the lands of Central Asia ), never reconciled itself to having lost West Ukraine, West Belarus, Bessarabia, and the three Baltic states ( territories which formerly belonged to the Russian Empire ) in the course of 1919-21.

Although Wiglaf appears to have restored Mercia's independence, the recovery was short-lived, and later in the century Mercia was divided between Wessex and the Vikings.

This first period of independence was extremely short-lived, as the German troops entered Tallinn on the following day.

While their independence from the Spaniards was short-lived, the Pueblo Revolt gained the Pueblo Indians a measure of freedom from future Spanish efforts to eradicate their culture and religion following the reconquest.

In 1919, it proclaimed independence as the short-lived Republic of Prekmurje and was subsequently included into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( later known as Yugoslavia ).

After winning their independence from the Huns, they settled in Dacia and a province near modern day Belgrade, establishing a short-lived kingdom.

Their independence proved to be short-lived because the bishop of Asti and the marquis of Ceva stormed it in 1200 and destroyed it in 1231.

Assyrian domination of Cyprus was short-lived, however, and its city-kingdoms soon gained independence once more.

Along with Zurab Avalishvili ’ s historical works, Kvinitadze ’ s memoirs are considered one of the best firsthand accounts of Georgia ’ s short-lived independence written abroad.