1.   Decolonisation meant that, by and large, independent states were created out of existing areas of colonial administration, within their colonial frontiers.

2.   In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states.

3.   It has been replaced by a commonwealth of independent states.

4.   Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia, stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought.

5.   Some of the Pacific islands are too small to stand alone as independent states.

6.   The nights belonged to the several extremist groups demanding an independent Sikh state.

7.   They all oppose the creation of an independent Kurdish state, and their political manoeuvring has not helped regional stability.

8.   They believe that Scotland should be an independent sovereign state.

9.   This, in outline, is the situation facing the government of the newly independent state.

10.   ...demands by Slovak nationalists for an independent state.