Sentence examples for asserting the autonomy from inspiring English sources

Fried tends to press his philosophical claims too far, especially in asserting the autonomy and self-sufficiency of the sovereign individual.

Pasley had played an important role in asserting the autonomy of medical research at the Madras hospital.

Lorenz (1978, p. 170) asserted "The autonomy of personal experience and its laws cannot in principle be explained in terms of physical and chemical laws or of neuro-physiological structure, however complex".

Some bioethicists who support GM for enhancement as well as therapeutic purposes counter these arguments by asserting the reproductive autonomy of parents (Stock 2003).

It asserted that the autonomy granted to Hong Kong in 1997 was entirely dependent on China's leaders.

I understand those who assert that the autonomy of the patient is all-important and that a competent person should have right to choose death.

Members of a public deliberation on consent and withdrawal, for instance, asserted the need to balance individual autonomy with the public good of research and recognised the complexity of achieving that balance individually and as a society (Secko et al. [2009]).

Mason Klein, the curator of the Rubinstein show, is aware that some museumgoers will not buy his premise, so he writes, "If latter-day feminist debates have focused on cosmetics as objectifying women, they were seen in the early twentieth century as a means of asserting female autonomy.

We have officially adopted laws asserting autonomy and authority over the union of which we are a part, to which we pledge allegiance to.

To them, the very act of asserting one's autonomy is suspect, which is why when someone does they look for ulterior motives.

"He can assert the Fifth Amendment".