Sentence examples for almost autonomous from inspiring English sources

Iran was virtually bankrupt, its central government was weak, and its provinces were almost autonomous.

And Dickens, who always seemed almost autonomous, a solitary character as idiosyncratic as those in his fiction, is also represented here as a collaborator.

The paper reports the development of two robotic cells designed with the objective of being almost autonomous, requiring only minor parameterization to operate efficiently.

Interventional radiology inclined to claim for becoming "a primary specialty with uniquely trained clinicians" [20] or "an almost autonomous clinical specialty" [21].

"For example, a behaviour such as driving a car is first learned but later becomes an almost autonomous lower level behaviour, freeing you to recognize and wave to a friend on the street while driving".

"We are starting to think about whether you can have almost autonomous little robots that you can put inside people that you can control from outside, external energy sources, bendy robots - what bendy instruments you can get into narrower places - targeting treatments onto tumours more precisely, you could go in all those directions and we probably will do".

But this was most exceptional, for almost all other primitive horticulturalists did not go beyond simple tribes with egalitarian and nearly autonomous communities.

After all, Google has been testing a fleet of almost completely autonomous, or "self-driving," hybrid cars for some time.

It was not easy to find a guide willing to make the journey, and it was even harder to find someone who had ties to the indigenous communities in Brazil, which function almost as autonomous countries, with their own laws and governing councils.

In Britain, over 30 years, universities have gone from being almost wholly autonomous, with state-financed block grants handed out at arm's length, to becoming branch offices of a government ministry.Admissions, too, bring a whiff of the old Soviet system.

"We all fly in aircraft that are almost completely autonomous and could potentially take off and land by themselves," Glaisner said.