self-governed
Example Sentences
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Returning from his Beijing summit with the Chinese leader, the president said that “nothing’s changed” in the U.S. policy toward the democratic, self-governed island.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
He also told Trump that Washington should be "prudent" when supplying weapons to the self-governed island which China has long claimed.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
He said Japan was closely monitoring developments on self-governed Taiwan as well.
From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024
Taiwan’s religious diversity and vitality forms a kind of subsoil of the self-governed island’s identity and values.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
For something very much better than this, however, a self-governed Church, like our own, has a right to look, and, in all probability, will continue to look until the thing is found.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed
