However, the national conference continues as an independent volunteer-driven effort.

A work can only be original if it is the result of independent creative effort.

Moreover, it is clear that there has been no independent effort to verify them.

Despite all the independent efforts, a critical question remains: do George Bush and his lieutenants really need so much advice?

A system is self-sustaining (or self-sufficient) if it can maintain itself by independent effort.

By law, these independent efforts must be made without the consultation of the campaigns involved.

This latest hack could just as well be another independent effort, or a government action.

It does not appear that the embassy made any independent effort to determine whether civilians had been killed.

There were a couple of independent efforts to break the budget impasse today.

That word is taken to mean a composition which is a product of independent creative effort.