East Timor became formally independent on May 20, 2002 .

Beijing has said repeatedly that it would use military force to prevent Taiwan from becoming a formally independent country.

Its organizational structure is a result of a collaboration of four formally independent institutions.

"I think Iraq will have a formally independent government that will be in perpetual gridlock and chaos," he said.

Although the junior school is formally independent, its intake generally move up as a group to the senior school.

MJS was founded in 1993 as a formally independent youth organization.

Heart 97.6 a formally independent local station, broadcast from Milton Keynes.

Direct-grant schools, formally independent but associated with the maintained system, accounted for a further 1.5 per cent.

In this way the activities of young and student members remain formally independent from but closely engaged with the Liberal Democrats.

This is formally independent of the Labour Party, but has close links with its leaders.