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Definition
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