Pendence

I am not a biologist, but I can imagine that ‘independent of selection’ could even be replaced with ‘sufficiently independent of selection’, i.e. admitting a certain codependence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Justin Chatwin less a romance than a lesson in codependence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We know that the way to cure the ills of our civilisation is to bring about a real conception of liberty, to restore the dignity of man and the inde­pendence of the family, properly safeguarded by the distribution of property. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Despite the fact that I am willing to discuss aspects of the administration of justice with anyone - including General Viljoen - it has to be kept in mind that my Department and I respect the inde - pendence of all the courts in accordance with the Constitution and that we cannot, neither do we want to, interfere with any judicial authority or discretion to prosecute persons. ❋ Unknown (1996)

They thought they still ruled her, and permitted her what they thought was the illusion of inde-pendence. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

DONE in Convention by the unanimous consent of the States present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the inde - pendence of the United States of America the twelfth. ❋ Michener, James (1987)

And yet the fact remains that sovereignty in Hobbesian terms is still the basic attribute of the State to the present day: of the State that combines supreme power at home with inde - pendence abroad — the “national State,” under whose banner the world has moved, for good or for evil, during the last three centuries. ❋ ALEXANDER PASSERIN D'ENTR (1968)

Descartes started pleasure on its path to inde - pendence, because his dualism attempted to apportion experience to either the body or the soul. ❋ ABRAHAM EDEL (1968)

Parties, and the gradual assertion of political inde - pendence in some respects by hitherto Communist ❋ SIDNEY HOOK (1968)

Machiavelli's stress on inde - pendence was a response to this condition. ❋ JERROLD E. SEIGEL (1968)

No less important was the medieval physicians 'de - pendence on alchemy as a source for new medicines. ❋ ALLEN G. DEBUS (1968)

Perhaps it is from the point of view of this optimism that we should consider one of the most characteristic elements of virtue in Machiavelli's thought: inde - pendence. ❋ JERROLD E. SEIGEL (1968)

Justice as a Fluctuating Mean between Inde - pendence and Dependence on Man. ❋ MORRIS D. FORKOSCH (1968)

Its liberation was a gradual affair, starting with Solon (sixth century B.C.) and developing until the overthrow of Athenian inde - pendence under Philip of Macedon, after the Battle of Cheroneia (336 B.C.) ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

The ideas of natural law and social compact spelled out in the Declaration of Inde - pendence found wide acceptance among the people precisely because they were thoroughly familiar ideas. ❋ DAVID FELLMAN (1968)

Columbia, Central America, and the vice-royalty of the Rio de la Plata in the early stages of their inde - pendence. ❋ HANS KOHN (1968)

In spite of many philosophers 'beliefs in the inde - pendence of their discipline and their timeless insights, untouched by the drama of life, philosophical systems are as much the effects of social and political change as they are causes. ❋ JOHN FISHER (1968)

The Catholic stress upon faith as thinking with assent, and upon the distinction between explicit and implicit faith, although it was hardly conducive to revolutionary activity as regards the church's structures, could induce a certain inde - pendence of the secular power, particularly if that power were not supported by the church. ❋ MARY DALY (1968)

Another such movement in Lorraine can be seen from 1046 making a specific call for the absolute inde - pendence of the spiritual authority. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)

The doctrine of the social contract, fashionable among political theorists in the late sixteenth and the seven - teenth centuries and surviving into the eighteenth, was first used to support the claims of religious minorities, or of churches and sects anxious to assert their inde - pendence of the civil power. ❋ JOHN PLAMENATZ (1968)