Or would the presidency remain an independent third force of government?

The party is an independent force that controls the border on the Iraqi side.

It is not a case of two independent forces working on one another.

During the subsequent retreat, he again led an independent force.

And that's where the approval of such an independent military force would have to come from.

His victories would soon turn him into an independent political force.

The Church also emerged in the political arena as an independent force.

But problem is that the military and its industrial complex have emerged as something of an independent political force.

"We will fight the next general election as an independent force with our options open," he says.

But he holds that France's independent nuclear force must not be cut.