How to Use declare (one's) independence in a Sentence

declare (one's) independence

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• The queen, who ruled for seven decades, has seen droves of former colonies declare independence during her reign.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Can The Club declare independence from mostly mundane baseball for the first time in eight years?
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 July 2021
• Local high school teacher Sarah Cooper comes up with a plan to have the town declare independence and become its own country.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• By then the war had ended, and the country went on to declare independence from Serbia in 2008.
  — Alan Light, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Gaining independence Your 1-year-old will declare independence in many ways.
  — Alex Vance, Parents, 30 Oct. 2024
• Voters on Tuesday will instead elect 31 lawmakers who will shape the island’s debate on when and if to declare independence in the future.
  — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
• Taiwan needs not declare independence, as long as it isn’t incorporated into China.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• Under an agreement with Denmark, Greenland can legally declare independence, but that can only take place after a national vote on the subject is held.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
• In 1811, Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• With less than a year remaining before the end of the five-year period, after which the PLO threatened to declare independence, there was already pressure on the parties to reach an agreement.
  — Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2020
• Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has said there is no need to declare independence because Taiwan is already an independent nation.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
• For one, Tarrio, the group’s longtime leader, was outed as a onetime federal informant, prompting many chapters to declare independence from the organization.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
• This led to a war after the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s and Nagorno-Karabakh attempted to declare independence.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2020
• In response, the conference sued Southern Methodist, arguing that the university did not have the authority to declare independence without the church’s approval.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• Puigdemont was forced into a delicate balancing act of acknowledging both the right to declare independence and the reality that unilaterally doing so would be extremely unlikely to succeed.
  — Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017
• The crisis escalated, and pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk held a referendum to declare independence from Ukraine.
  — Sammy Westfall, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Within Taiwan, a majority of people favor maintaining the status quo, with some wanting to openly declare independence and a small minority wanting to someday unify with China.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• However, Greenland has been positioned to declare independence from Denmark via referendum since 2009.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
• According to the 2009 self-rule agreement, Greenland is allowed to declare independence after a successful referendum, which Egede suggested may come as early as this spring, at the same time as parliamentary elections.
  — Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 27 Feb. 2025
• For example, were Taiwan to formally declare independence, Beijing might well resolve that a significant military escalation was its only politically acceptable choice.
  — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2023
• However, it was widely criticized by historians as riddled with inaccuracies, including the assertion that the Revolutionary War was an effort by colonists to preserve slavery rather than declare independence from the British monarchy.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2020