Sentences with phrase «country after independence»

Their 1993 hit Slam was among the first American rap songs to reach the country after its independence, and it became deeply rooted in local culture.

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China National Petroleum Corp took a financial hit as unrest flared near its two most important oil fields in South Sudan after the country declared independence in 2011.

(CNN)-- Malaysia's first openly gay pastor has chosen Wednesday, coinciding with the country's Independence Day, to get married to his American partner in New York, barely a month after same - sex marriage became legalized there.

For Koreans, August 15 commemorates the restoration of the country's independence after a Japanese occupation of 36 years.

Finally, we must remember that although some of the Islamic people of the Arab and African countries have attained their independence, only after all of them have become free can they proceed to the next stage of security, peace, and prosperity which is so necessary for the growth of Islamic culture.

Japan, Taiwan, and Korea are among the nations that defied all expectations of informed foreign observers in the postwar period; by the same token, Burma and Ghana, two of the countries most frequently cited as likely economic successes after independence, did an equally creditable job of disappointing the experts.

At independence in 1957, many predicted racial or religious civil war for the country, and a communist insurgency was put down only after a major struggle.

Obviously it is a fact that it was by absolute nonviolence — even amid the crying problems India faced after her liberation — that Gandhi finally secured not only his country's independence, but led it to adopt policies that no other of the world's nations will imitate.

It's a place with an inchoate air about it, a country that is still adjusting to the independence it won from Britain 11 years ago after existing as a crown colony since 1862.

Mr. Doughan said Ghana, after 60 years of independence has failed in its economic management as unemployment continues to be a great challenge facing the country in spite of its enormous wealth.

Theoretically every region or city can be occupied by other country, can be made genocide of one or several nationalities that are living there and after can be made referendum for independence by remaining people and to make new «country».

For starters Somaliland is not a separatist country; for over 100 years it was a British Protectorate, under the name British Somaliland which it relinquished for The Republic of Somaliland after being granted independence on the 26th June 1960.

He said: «Today, 57 years after the independence of our dear country, can we in all sincerity claim to have achieved the dream of our founding fathers?

Ed Miliband said the Team Scotland of Labour politicians «helped save our country» in the Scottish independence vote, after «our country nearly broke up».

The Sun behind the Clouds (Unrated) Pacifist documentary chronicles the ongoing efforts of the Dalai Lama and other political activists lobbying for Tibetan independence fifty years after the country was conquered by Communist China.

The country celebrated its debut at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 1997 — just six years after gaining independence from Yugoslavia.

There are three homes inside Mother's and Aunt Fostalina's heads: home before independence... Home after independence, when black people won the country... And then the home of things falling apart, which made Aunt Fostalina leave and come here.

Edna O'Brien was born in 1930 in western Ireland, where her parents lived in a picturesque stone house called Drewsboro, built on the remains of a fancy country house her father had helped burn down so the British couldn't use it during the Irish War of Independence after World War I.

The country's first appearance in Frankfurt was in 1997, just six years after Ljubljana had gained independence from Yugoslavia.

After all, it is, despite ancient roots, a young country, gaining independence from Britain in 1971.

George Price led the country to full independence on September 21, 1981 after delays caused by territorial disputes with neighboring Guatemala, which refused to formally recognize the country.

September 21, 2016 marks Belize's 35th anniversary of becoming an independent country (from Britain), and September 10 is the day it gained independence from Spain in 1798 after winning of the Battle at St. George's Caye.

In the southern part, known as Transcaucasia, lie two neighbouring countries that only regained their independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It is also a place where art and nationalism are intrinsically linked — after gaining independence from France in 1960, the country was transformed by its first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor.

The untitled work from 2013 refers, in particular, to the Indian and Bangladeshi areas left behind in each other's countries after the subcontinent's independence from the UK.

... that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?

Regarded as part of the «born free» generation in Zimbabwe — born one year after the country's independence from Rhodesia — Chiurai's early work focused on the political, economic and social strife in his homeland.

Taken soon after the country gained independence from France in 1960, the compelling black - and - white images from the 1960s and 1970s capture the significance of music and dance in Malian culture.

Kazakhstan, which boasts the strongest economy in energy - rich Central Asia, has in recent years become more active in revising agreements it struck with foreign companies after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union almost two decades ago.

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