(n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
(n.) Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
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.
Nationhood
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Arguing for a new nation state, the white paper understands that the old tropes of nationhood will no longer do, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism.
(2) Speaking scientifically about the nation – for instance in terms of macroeconomics – is an insult to those who would prefer to rely on memory and narrative for their sense of nationhood, and are sick of being told that their “imagined community” does not exist.
(3) It is a story recalled by its main players in a series of remarkably frank conversations as one of unlikely alliances and bitter divisions, a clash of power, identity and the deepest questions of nationhood.
(4) At its height, the welfare state was a symbol of nationhood and solidarity that helped Scots to feel at home in Britain.
(5) Then came Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem , a wild, unfettered meditation on nationhood that became one of the biggest-grossing new plays in West End history, a battered lament for Englishness that has now found a home on Broadway ( on Sunday, Mark Rylance's central performance took a Tony award ; the production will return to the UK, with Rylance, this autumn).
(6) British nationhood is just 300 years old, a blink in human history.
(7) In the Middle East, where sport has over the past 15 years become increasingly important as a means of projecting soft power and building nationhood, involvement in bidding for events and climbing the greasy pole in international sports organisations has become a useful means of obtaining and retaining personal standing.
(8) All the mad conflicts over nationhood and identity and constitutional structures had ceased to trouble the essential British settlement.
(9) Above all, the identity politics of nationhood and belonging, Englishness and Scottishness, has completely transformed our political culture.
(10) In the second half of the 20th century, these people, exhausted by the struggle with themselves and against one another, had need of a unifying figure to give them a vision of nationhood.
(11) Many of the props of nationhood date from this era: be it the union flag, Jerusalem, Rule Britannia, the tune of the national anthem or the mapping of the nation in the form of Ordnance Survey maps.
(12) Clegg told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "I certainly think in many ways actually what the Scottish people want isn't exactly on the ballot paper – which is a greater expression of Scottish nationhood, greater devolution of powers from London to Holyrood, what is called in the jargon "devo-max" or in Liberal Democrat language, ever since the days of Gladstone, home rule.
(13) On 12 January 2015 this article was amended to change “Australian sovereignty” to “Australian nationhood” in the third last paragraph.
(14) Photograph: Queenie Mckenzie estate When considering the cultural resonance of frontier war it helps to remember that the last widely-accepted massacre, at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928, is considerably closer to the living memory of the communities it affected than the invasion of Gallipoli in 1915 - the first act in a war that would kill about 62,000 Australians and, contestably, define the nationhood of the new federation (incidentally, one of the main perpetrators of the Coniston Massacre was a Gallipoli veteran, George Murray, who would later boast in an interview about killing territorial Aboriginals.)
(15) Because if the commonwealth of Australia can do that then we can do it ... what makes it more real?” Staying real, Murrumu recently won another small step on the road to commonwealth and Queensland recognition of Yidindji nationhood when a local church school accepted a Yidindji birth certificate to enrol his son.
(16) Constable's Salisbury Cathedral is a sublime image of Britishness, of nationhood, just as Turner's two canvases of the rise and fall of the Carthaginian empire comment more sceptically on the fate of opulence.
(17) Naturally, the constitutional argument remains crucial – independence as an expression of nationhood.
(18) Michael Kenny is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, and author of The Politics of English Nationhood (Oxford University Press)
(19) The other part is about how powerful political ideals became invested in these techniques: ideals of “evidence-based policy”, rationality, progress and nationhood grounded in facts, rather than in romanticised stories.
(20) The unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty burns at the core of Australian nationhood.