self-determining
Example Sentences
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“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
If Ms. Spears is one of the last Stepford pop stars, Ms. Cyrus is a new model — unpredictable, self-determining, actually fun.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2013
But the fabled "innovation" of the private sector never seems to be able to extend itself towards making jobs more self-determining and satisfying.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
I. There is no self-determining power of will, and of course no liberty consisting in a self-determining power.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
