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not controlled by outside forces

The partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous economies.

An autonomous judiciary is central to the separation of government powers.
The Kurds in Northern Iraq want to be at least partially autonomous so that they can decide their own future.
His teenager is growing increasingly autonomous.
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person whose self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournier
Anyone who has worked in the Executive Branch knows that it is a far-flung confederation of semi-autonomous baronies, not a hierarchy like a large corporation.
Christopher DeMuth -- After the Ascent -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.11289,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
The robot moved autonomously.
Therefore, even if the entire world may benefit on net from a global carbon tax, without a proper enforcement mechanism, each autonomous country may have an individual incentive to not sign onto the tax given that everyone else has signed on.
Gerald Prante -- The Problem of Using Carbon Taxes to Combat Global Climate Change -- http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/printer/1669.html (retrieved 06/28/06)
Technically you are an autonomous colony— I hear you told Sansom that.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
And, most of all, it's autonomous.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Those who surrender neither expand their territory nor dictate the terms of their peace and autonomous rule.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
It can't handle itself autonomously?
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
It may be true that I've lived a more autonomous lifestyle than EH.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
These were students whose paths might never have had reason to cross, given how autonomous the various disciplines at Carnegie Mellon could be.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
As a member of an independent government recognized by Moscow, I can look for him in eastern Siberia and help him to cross over into our autonomous region.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Tonight, Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit #A-367 is barking.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Thus on San Piedro the silent-toiling, autonomous gill-netter became the collective image of the good man.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
You have just dispensed with the 'viable schizophrenia' you conjured up, and you have now switched over to its pulling through and becoming fully autonomous.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
When the British gave India independence in 1947 and divided it, we went with the newly created Pakistan but stayed autonomous.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

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