Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.
I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.
I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.
A lot of independent filmmakers are really catty.
I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.
The chasm between independent film and commercial film is now so wide. You either have to be super-famous and get a first-time director or writer's indie script off the ground, or you're a newcomer and go and put a cape on for four years.