1.   As already stated, a system whose parts vary in a more independent manner is more adaptable.

2.   As he became more independent of booksellers he began to choose works for publication which suited his own taste.

3.   As the individual adolescent seeks to grow more independent of the family, peer groups and friends become important points of reference.

4.   Correspondingly, the police have become gradually more independent of local capitalist interests.

5.   Now that my sons are more independent, I have more time for myself.

6.   Term limits for commissioners would enable them to make more independent judgments regarding violations of the law.

7.   The more independent companies shown in Table I were Cosmos and Horizon.

8.   They get more independent.

9.   Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.