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• According to Tinh, there was a spate of recent rumors - none of which he could confirm - of the establishment of a kind of shadow government, wholly independent from the Vietnamese Government. —  The Kaisho
• The Miami Herald doing what they described as their independent analysis of all of the votes, and they concluded that if there was a fair count, Al Gore would carry Florida by 23,000 votes. —  CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: When Will America Know Who its Next President Will Be? - December 4, 2000
• In any independent -- independent of the U. S.-led coalition or is the U.N. entirely dependent upon what the U.S. will or will not do in that particular ... —  CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2003
• The independent -- independent counsel -- excuse me -- I'm so used to calling it that -- the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, had not indicated whether he had made any decisions about whether to indict. —  CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2005
• I think this person needs to be -- independent is the wrong word, separate from the administration, with powers. —  CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2004

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