assert one's independence

But he still felt the need to assert his independence.

One is that the bank wanted to assert its independence.

It then began to assert its independence from the executive.

Power gives us the ability to control, to choose and to assert our independence.

Perhaps in a second act, the author could show us the two of them breaking away and asserting their independence.

She is a Nora who does not wait until the last act to assert her independence.

Federal prosecutors may now be trying to assert their independence after that experience.

But he needed another, more political vehicle to publicly assert his independence.

At 18 she asserted her independence by ceasing to go to church.

Norway had chosen a bad time to begin asserting its independence.