granting of independence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrantandindependence
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grant
noun[C]
uk/ɡrɑːnt/us/ɡrænt/
an amount of money given especially by the government to a person or organization for a ...
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independence
noun[U]
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈpen.dəns/us/ˌɪn.dɪˈpen.dəns/
freedom from being governed or ruled by ...
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(Definition ofgrantandindependencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These moves came about due to a return to democracy of postcolonial states that had become totalitarian and thegrantingofindependenceto most of the few remaining colonies.
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Things have moved fast since then and today we are applauding thegrantingofindependenceto a community of less than 1 million.
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The context is quite different from thegrantingofindependenceto a former dependent territory.
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He said it was always a cardinal issue in thegrantingofindependencethat we respected the wishes of the people concerned.
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Thegrantingofindependenceto former colonies resulted in a scaling down and eventual abolition of such work.
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In ourgrantingofindependenceto other countries, or certainly to the majority of other countries, the settler problem was entirely absent.
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It may well be that part of the problem here is thegrantingofindependenceto these islands, many of which have relatively small populations.
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It has been suggested that the words "immediate steps" meant the immediategrantingofindependence, but that is not so.
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At thegrantingofindependencesome of these people expressed regret to me personally at our impending departure.
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Many considerations which we felt in the past were necessary before thegrantingofindependencehave been abandoned long ago.
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I cannot say in advance what view we might take of any such changes should they come forward as part of a suggested basis for thegrantingofindependence.
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If thegrantingofindependenceis going to deepen and strengthen the good will which already exists, then perhaps the timing is not so far wrong.
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In no other case of thegrantingofindependencehas there been a deadline accepted by both sides which provides for such a long period of preparation for independence.
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In conjunction with this, and as one of the reasons for it, we have seen thegrantingofindependenceto countries which are not economically viable.
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However, we have accepted that there is a difference between thegrantingofindependenceand the granting of autonomy, however strong we believe the treaty guaranteeing that autonomy to be.
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We are dealing with a situation which is unique in the lifetime of most of us here, the question of thegrantingofindependencebefore majority rule.
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I believe that it is unusual because, for obvious reasons affecting nationality problems, it has usually been excluded from other constitutions on thegrantingofindependence.
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I do not think that one can turn one's eyes from the oppression of the minority community in the years following thegrantingofindependencein 1960.
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This reflects the simple fact that between the enactment of this measure and thegrantingofindependencethere still lies a period of unknown difficulty and hazard of uncertain length.
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