The Cook Islands and Niue are self governing states in free association with New Zealand.

It's because they used to be separate free living bacteria and they came together and became a superorganism.

Remain independent and genuinely sovereign.

PEGI in Europe and ESRB in the US, which are established on the basis of developing the industry, are independent, nongovernmental organizations.

But such institutions are rarely self sufficient.

An important distinction between economic principles and their institutional embodiment is that most key economic principles are institution free.

October 10 Fiji becomes independent.

FAFCI has assisted 100,000 women to become independent.

Teenagers want to be independent of their parents.

If civil society is too weak, parties will seek to dominate institutions that should remain independent.

Each line on the court is part of the area it encompasses.

I paint faces that tell stories, and are part of our culture.

Vector graphics are ideal for simple or composite drawings that need to be device independent, or do not need to achieve photo realism.

Indeed, the only elections in China in which truly independent voters choose candidates occur at the village committee level, but this democratic mummery is staged mainly for the benefit of outside observers.

Why shouldn t the Flemish go their own way?

Moreover, effective courts must be politically independent.

Yet these institutions should be neutral and independent.

They are aliens who have no right to govern the nation.

So we have trouble with the risks that aren't very common.

All of the world's religions contain some doctrines and practices that are potentially harmful to the emergence of democracy, and others that are potentially beneficial.

This, in turn, means that, while Kazakhstan and Ukraine are independent, Tibet and Xinjiang alternate between phases of violent agitation and bloody repression.

Lawsuits are apparently increasingly common, but they are notoriously cumbersome, and judges are not independent from factory bosses.

The facts concerning his case must be independently verified.

It would be misleading, however, to describe Ukraine's television channels as independent.

You lean on your parents too much. You must be more independent.

It produces the tacit knowledge that is crucial in a crisis.

One example is Eurobonds, which Merkel has declared taboo.

There may be people who are protectors of knowledge, language or otherwise.

It is often used in the making of surfboards and for marine applications.

Organized crime levels are lower in countries with independent judiciaries.

SWFs like to portray themselves as politically independent, commercially motivated investment vehicles.

Proposed scientific advances require careful validation and replication by independent scientists.

She has also worked as a columnist and journalist at independent media outlets in Russia.

You lean on your parents too much. You must be more independent.

One key element of our success is the institutions that buttress our development.

I prefer to avoid infringement cases, which are costly and time consuming.

This suggests the need for state spending, which is usually the beginning of a bad financial story.

Bombings attract crowds that are often a tempting target for more airstrikes.

Moreover, it is hard to price losses on exotic instruments that are illiquid (i.e. do not have a market price).

The review should be led by independent experts from developing and developed countries.

French judges have become more independent than they traditionally were.

I am NOT happy with SYRIZA deciding to form a coalition with Indep Greeks.

It can often seem that all members of the New Hollywood generation were independent filmmakers.

In 1948, the two zones became the independent countries of North Korea and South Korea.

The choices to be made are not simple, obvious, or clear cut.