(n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
(n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities.
(n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
(n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
(n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
(n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.
(n.) Generosity; liberality.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(2) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(3) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(4) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
(5) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(6) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(7) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(8) From these experiments, we conclude that the surface-modified polyurethane blend is superior to Biomer polyurethane in blood compatibility and in freedom from thromboembolic risk.
(9) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(10) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(11) The right of people to get together in pursuit of shared interests or purposes is one of the building blocks of freedom.
(12) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(13) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(14) The relaxation times are considerably increased by binding to albumin, indicating less motional freedom of the molecules in the bound state.
(15) The reasoning in Rust v Sullivan allows government to limit freedom of speech in federally funded programs.
(16) The Florida senator on Wednesday signed on to legislation that would delay the implementation of the sweeping surveillance reforms passed by Congress under the USA Freedom Act.
(17) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
(18) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(19) Furthermore, long-term clinical benefit is suggested by the high freedom from coronary surgery, myocardial infarction, and death in the patients who underwent successful revascularization.
(20) The Freedom Act ultimately sped to passage in the House on May 22 by a bipartisan 303-121 vote .
Independent
Definition:
(a.) Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.
(a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
(a.) Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
(a.) Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
(a.) Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
(a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
(a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
(a.) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
(n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
(n.) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(2) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(3) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(4) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(5) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(6) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(7) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
(9) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(10) However, empty shells can also form independently of intact virions.
(11) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(12) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(13) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(14) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(15) In particular, inflammatory reaction was significantly more frequent and severe in ischemic groups than in controls, independent of the degree of coronary stenosis.
(16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(17) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
(18) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(19) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(20) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.