Collocations withindependence

These are words often used in combination withindependence.

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auditor independence
The regular rotation of audit partners plays an important role in upholding auditor independence.
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complete independence
The simplest null hypothesis is one of complete independence.
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declaration of independence
This problem can easily be observed in one book written in 1992, just after the declaration of independence.
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declared independence
So great was their wish to be outside the federation that they declared independence as soon as they could do so.
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degree of independence
An in-between group with regard to dependency, they needed support for only some activities, retaining a certain degree of independence.
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economic independence
Her development path hence led not to growing economic independence but to an increasing reliance on the benevolence of foreign financiers and trading partners.
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editorial independence
It struggled to maintain editorial independence, selecting its own contents, adapting its own tone and writing style, and ultimately, taking different positions regarding a whole range of issues.
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energy independence
Many councillors felt that the transfer of ownership involved in the municipalisation should also lead to energy independence.
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financial independence
Even in households where wages were the main resources, this condition did not seem to confer total financial independence.
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functional independence
Only 21 (10 %) were classed as being in poor health and with significantly impeded functional independence.
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granting of independence
These moves came about due to a return to democracy of postcolonial states that had become totalitarian and the granting of independence to most of the few remaining colonies.
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independence constitution
The independence constitution provides among other things for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, citizenship, the judicature and the public service.
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independence movement
The significance and roles of leading figures of the independence movement were adjusted according to the current political climate.
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judicial independence
We attempted to include a measure of judicial independence, which we hypothesize should be negatively related to levels of corruption for intuitively obvious reasons.
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political independence
How influential were the nationalist movements and the nationalist leaders in bringing about political independence?
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relative independence
A characteristic feature of parallel access to words is the relative independence of reading time from word length.
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total independence
Total independence would not define a life worth living; indeed, it would not be a livable life.
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war of independence
The first part of the book - nine short chapters - covers the war of independence, 1954-62.
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