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autonomy

[aw-ton-uh-mee] / Ι”ΛˆtΙ’n Ι™ mi /


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They divide Bosnia into two entities, the Serb Republika Srpska and the Muslim Croat Federation of Bosnia, each enjoying a large degree of autonomy and united by weak central institutions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

But a lenient countermessage framed as female autonomy is no better.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

First Eagle will operate on Victory Capital’s platform while retaining its brand, investment autonomy, and existing investment processes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Creator Vince Gilligan’s Emmy-nominated postapocalyptic sci-fi series “Pluribus” focuses on a dozen or so people who somehow held onto their autonomy and did not join the rest of humanity as a collective, single-minded pod.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Fearful that ongoing war would mean utter destruction of their nation, a faction of Shawnee accepted a peace agreement that meant giving up some of their autonomy and the territory they used as hunting grounds.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Spinning on an axis of anxiety, “Huesera” raises the provocative idea that motherhood can feel akin to a curse stripping one of stability and sacred autonomies.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

They say it is an important step in closing the wounds left by the state takeover without sacrificing the autonomies that they say have been essential for driving academic progress.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2016

Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2015

Opinions in Spain would split according to autonomies and political colour.

From Economist ● May 15, 2012

The respective autonomies of the individual, the clan, the hsien and the nation are accounted for; the nature of the democratic nationalist state becomes clear.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger




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