The Pope had sanctioned the atrocious conquest of England by the Normansbeneficially as it afterwards turned outonly on the condition that extraordinary powers should be conferred on the Archbishop of Canterbury, his representative in enforcing the papal claims, who thus became virtually independent of the king,a spiritual monarch of such dignity that he was almost equal to his sovereign in authority.

He made himself practically independent of France.

This ball of improbable inflammatory hair and totally independent face rested in a basin of shirt collar; which, in its turn, was supported by a rusty black necktie and a very loose suit of gritty alpaca; so that, taking the gentleman for all in all, such an incredible human being had rarely been seen outside of literary circles.

Unless he or she can do income-work, he or she is not economically independent; unless he can do universal work, he is not socially and spiritually free.

The estate was entailed; that made him comparatively independent; and he would endeavour, as well as his impetuous passion would allow, to live on in the hope that at length his mother would give her consent, and that Catherine would retract her determination.

The Government of Cracow, though nominally independent, was practically under the control and protection of the three protecting Powers; and whatever they ordered that Government to do, it was plain they would do.

" Thanks to the successful efforts of his good friend, Mr. Kendall, he was now financially independent, so much so that he felt justified in purchasing, in the fall of the year 1859, the property at 5 West Twenty-second Street, New York, where the winters of the remaining years of his life were passed, except when he was abroad.

By this abrupt contraposition of body and mind as reciprocally independent substances, Descartes founded that dualism, as whose typical representative he is still honored or opposed.

These two agencies, while working in harmony through the vaso-dilators, produce phenomena which are essentially independent of each other.

The wealthy few, who are able to live on smaller profits and to give their blasted fields some rest, are thus pushing off the many who are merely independent....

It was composed of seven provinces, mutually independent of each other.

Hence it confirms theism and is confirmed by theism; but each is strictly independent of the other and rests on a conception prior to both; they diverge from one and the same root and then intertwine and support one another.

" "You're mighty independent for a boy in your position.

And he went on to explain how, as Dean of Westminster, he was in a rarely independent position, and could make the Abbey of a wider national service than would otherwise be possible.

But we agreed that it was not a part of you, but something utterly independent of you.

But the Douglas, with his denser body, leaps and glides in hidden strength, seemingly as independent of common muscles as a mountain stream.

Such children will inevitably become intellectually independent and morally self-controlled.

New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independent.

Each of these uses is logically independent as a cause of value, yet all are mutually related, the value of cattle to a particular person being determined by the consideration of all the uses united into one scale of varying gratification. § 3.

The train for Milan goes right through to Venice, so, being momentarily independent of the British military authorities, I decided to spend a few hours there on my way to the Front.

I used to be ostentatiously independent; now I am only independent enough.

But such a half-conscious acceptance of a partially independent Civil Service as an existing fact is not enough.

After early middle life, his writings made him pecuniarily independent, but he suffered much from ill health.

Persistently independent and manly, he criticizes men and times largely, urging and defending his opinions with the spirit and pertinacity befitting a descendant of him of the Hammer.

There are many schools, of one kind and another, which have been started at the South by private parties on a purely independent basis.