independence
noun
Also the state or quality of being independent.
preindependence
-
a word derived from
independence.
Example Sentences
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Last week Prime Minister Botha broke the impasse by pledging to choose between two voting methods for Namibia's preindependence elections.
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Economy was hurt by the ten-year preindependence guerrilla war, which was followed by a flight of skilled whites and imposition of doctrinaire socialism.
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The partnership continued even after Mugabe, whose Shona tribal constituency makes up almost 80% of the country's population, won the preindependence elections in 1980.
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The mineral-rich southeastern province of Katanga in preindependence days supplied 60% of the revenue of the Congo government and most of the wealth the Belgians drew from the colony.
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Pompidou's visit to francophone Africa is the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle's historic preindependence tour in 1959.
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