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  1. Independents

    or Congregationalists are a Protestant sect deriving both names from their principle of government; repudiating both Episcopacy and Presbyterianism, they hold that every congregation should manage its own affairs, and elect its own officers independent of all authority save that of Christ; they profess to derive all rules of faith and practice from the Scriptures, and are closely akin to Presbyterians in doctrine. Numerous as early as Queen Elizabeth's time, they suffered persecution then; many fled or were banished to Holland, whence the Mayflower conveyed the Pilgrim Fathers to New England in 1620. Regaining ascendency under Cromwell, they again suffered at the Restoration; but political disabilities then imposed have gradually been removed, and now they are the most vigorous Dissenting body in England. The congregations in the English Union (a union for common purposes and mutual help) number 4700, those in the Scottish Union 100.

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Independents

    The same as “Congregationalists.”

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of independents in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of independents in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of independents in a Sentence

  1. The Atlantic Molly Ball:

    ( He) increased the turnout of young voters, it was unusually high. Same thing with independents. They were an unusually large share, 20 % of Iowa caucus-goers, and they went overwhelmingly well for Bernie Sanders.

  2. Joe Biden.As Robert P. Jones:

    White Republicans have stuck it out and there is [ virtually ] no change, and one of their biggest base groups, White evangelical Protestants, are right there, democrats have moved, independents have moved, other religious groups have moved, so it is a Republican Party and a shrinking, aging White Christians base that is increasingly out of touch with where the country is.

  3. Mike Madrid:

    It really depends on what ends up happening with the investigation. Right now Trump can go out and say, ‘I’m the guy Democrats are targeting, they're afraid of me,' but the other side of this is that GOP voters and independents that already have a bad view of him are likely to be pushed further away.

  4. Zareh Ghazarian:

    If( Independents) were to win their seats, not only does it make the job for Liberal Party harder to maintain government, but Liberal Party will also deprive them of potential leadership options in the future, so it's a big stakes issue for the coalition.

  5. Yair Ghitza:

    Most of the time you are going to see independents moving more than the strong partisans.

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