The captive register then acts as a flag of convenience register, except that it is not the register of an independent state.
Dependencies" and "areas of special sovereignty" refer to a broad category of political entities that are associated in some way with an independent state.
Independent state" refers to a people politically organized into a sovereign state with a definite territory.
Dependency status: This entry describes the formal relationship between a particular nonindependent entity and an independent state.
China had recognized that she must at least adopt Western technical and industrial progress in order to continue to exist as an independent state.
Therefore they reject the idea, proposed by some American politicians, that Taiwan should become an independent state.
She was a woman of strong personality, but too uneducated--in the modern sense--to be able to realize that modernization was an absolute necessity for China if it was to remain an independent state.
A public defence of the right of the New Hampshire grants (so called) on both sides Connecticut river, to associate together, and form themselves into an independent state.
They conclude with the erection of Georgia into an independent State.
The ends for which Japan went to war were the expulsion of the Russian forces from the Chinese Province of Manchuria and the liberation of Korea, which was at the time an independent State, from the influence of Russia.
The nations were freely to determine their fate and decide whether they want to live in an independent state of their own or whether they choose to form one state in common with other nations.
An independent state--that means for us no longer to die by order of foreigners, and no longer to live under foreign domination.
Pretoria may boast the memories of the fallen republic, and its old-time position as the capital of an independent state.
Ever since Finland has had an independent State Budget, she has never required any sacrifices on the part of Russia for her economic development.
She was never an independent State; her historical traditions do not move her to play a political part in Europe.
A provisional government was formed at Brussels, which declared Belgium to be an independent state, and summoned a national congress to establish a system of government.
Again in 1814, on the expulsion of the French, when there was much talk of founding an independent state, the same name was suggested for it.
Various members of the Committee of Safety actually ruled Virginia from the time it ceased to be a British colony until it officially became an independent state.
Since Governor Dunmore had already fled from the colony, the royal government had been theoretically dissolved and Virginia gained the status of an independent state.
This union was dissolved in 1830, and Quito formed an independent state.
In 1777, the inhabitants constituted themselves an independent state.
New Grenada declared itself an independent state in 1811, and after a long and severe struggle with the mother-country, expelled the Spaniards from its territory.
By this action the Provincial Estates flouted the authority of the States-General and entered into negotiations on their own account, as if they were an independent State.
The Republic, however, as an independent State, was very much hampered by the awkward fact of the cautionary towns remaining in English hands.
Such was the inherent weakness of the Republic that it was an independent State in little more than name; its form of government was guaranteed by foreign powers on whom it had to rely for its defence against external foes.
The nations were freely to determine their fate and decide whether they want to live in an independent State of their own or whether they choose to form one State in common with other nations.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "independent state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
