1.   The Bundesbank wants national Central Banks to be made independent, and of course for the European Central Bank to operate independently with respect to price stability.

2.   And the disability insurance aimed specifically at the special needs of the disabled is not fully designed to make them independent.

3.   Area hospitals are preparing and upgrading their decontamination facilities to make them independent of the fire department in the event of a massive event.

4.   About a dozen unions backed the strike, including port workers who object to a government proposal to make ports independent.

5.   But the institute needs an endowment to make it independent of the year-to-year grant hunting.

6.   Ethnic Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army are fighting to make Kosovo independent.

7.   Even when computers were successfully updated, the repairs often were made independent of one another.

8.   Freeman tried to have the department made more independent during debate over the new city charter several years ago, but he was unsuccessful.

9.   He was able to defy tribal customs because his wealth made him independent.

10.   In contrast, he said, his administration believes in making people independent, and has done more for homeless people than any administration in years.