1.   Countries that were once colonies of Britain are now independent nations.

2.   Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment.

3.   They have begun building the sinews of an independent nation.

4.   A treaty united the independent nations.

5.   Scotland is an independent sovereign nation.

6.   Unless I am mistaken, both Belgium and the Netherlands are examples of small independent nations in Europe!

7.   As a diplomat, he helped mold U.S. policy toward newly independent nations in Southeast Asia after World War II.

8.   At the urging of the West, the richest section of the nation, Katanga, quickly seceded from the newly independent nation.

9.   Beijing says Lee wants Taiwan to declare a formal break with China and become an independent nation.

10.   Belarus, now an independent nation, faces no foreign military threat requiring hair-trigger defenses.