Autonomy

//ɔːˈtɒn.ə.mi//

"Autonomy" in a Sentence (13 examples)

If I borrow the money, I feel like I'll lose my autonomy.

Scotland has been agitating for centuries to achieve greater autonomy from the British central government in London.

In 1876 there was created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, in which Hungary enjoyed a greater amount of autonomy.

The Kabyles are ostracized by the Algerian government especially as many express their desire for autonomy or even independence.

Mehenni founded the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia and has served as president of the Provisional Government of Kabylia from exile in France since Kabylia’s Black Spring period in 2001, during which the Kabylian people challenged the Algerian government’s ban on their culture and language.

“The appeal of the house for Americans, going back into the 20th century, was that it signified autonomy. You know, every home is a castle,” says Louis Hyman, an economic historian and assistant professor at Cornell University. “So, it has these echoes of signifying independence and achievement.”

The Kabyles are ostracized by the government especially as many express their desire for autonomy or even independence.

Autonomy was granted in 1969 and independence in 1979.

In 1967, Britain gave Grenada autonomy over its internal affairs.

A series of constitutions after World War II granted Nigeria greater autonomy.

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But while assiduously dismissing any though of its own autonomy and proclaiming its victims its judges, it outdoes, in its veiled autocracy, all the excesses of autonomous art.

Financial independence and micro retirement have come to represent the autonomy I've created for myself, which is a powerful feeling.

...[T]he fact that a scientific theory finds applications to a wide variety of different phenomena does not imply anything about the autonomy of this theory from deeper physical laws.

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