self-determining
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But it is more interested in the trails he blazed as a Black cultural figure and self-determining professional athlete, and it favors writers, pundits and scholars over basketball players in its interviews.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023
“By giving them these spaces, we are really setting up teens to advocate for themselves, and also to live self-determining lives later on, instead of just learning from adults.”
From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2021
The season is advertised as a "thought provoking analysis" of "tough, difficult women" that aims to celebrate "self-determining, independent, defiant, but always charismatic anti-heroines".
From BBC • May 3, 2019
“One of the amazing things about Wakanda is that it is an African nation that is wholly self-determining and without influence from the outside, without westernizing influence. It’s never been conquered or colonized.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2018
This assumption he afterwards endeavours indirectly to sustain, when he argues against a self-determining will.
From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip