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political independence; or other freedom from outside control

The region wants greater autonomy from the central government.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Tracy Kidder
We live in a society that extols mobility, autonomy and freedom.
Steven Mintz
Tibet wants autonomy, but it is looking less and less probable that they will ever achieve it.
China's constitution promises autonomy to Tibet; though the degree of autonomy is a source of much debate.
"Science is not the highest value in society," Andrews says, pointing instead to things like autonomy and personal freedom.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
That said, you will retain the greater part of your autonomy.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
China has enjoyed a virtuous circle in which, once girls had economic value, parents invested more in them and gave them greater autonomy.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
He seemed to have moved beyond his need to assert so adamantly his autonomy, his need to separate himself from his parents.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
Thus far I have allowed you an unprecedented measure of autonomy to come and go as you please, out of respect for your unique position.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
He might use words like 'free citizen' and 'sovereign autonomy.'
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
However, there appears to be no insuperable obstacle to the Lunar colonists, if they show political maturity, enjoying a degree of autonomy.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The surface of the whole complex was tiled, with only a few small steps and slopes, which meant that Will could move in his chair with complete autonomy.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
It was a paper that had achieved considerable autonomy within the regime and dealt with issues forbidden to others.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
For any created being, autonomy is lunacy.
William P. Young -- The Shack
Now, on the other hand, I would only be insulted if you suggested that I had no autonomy where your pictures were concerned, like any child.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
A defining feature here is student autonomy, the socalled open curriculum, which students won during demonstrations in the late 1960s.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
Their aims were some kind of nationalism, with Gaelic autonomy, and a massacre of the Jews as well, in revenge for a mythical saint called Hugh of Lincoln.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
(courtesy General Autonomies Corporation) visualizations of the southwestern United States, weighted for wind direction and population.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
However, there was an element of autonomy in the younger girl's unhappiness.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement

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