Sentence examples for autonomous authorities from inspiring English sources

Constant struggles weakened all parties, and the numerous autonomous authorities held civil government in such check that it became immobilized and unable to make important decisions.

Not really, he assured me, as most had already worked under Crimea's own autonomous authorities.

(Blackwell's ordination in a Congregational church rested on the autonomous authority of a single congregation).

Officials are considering turning the office into an autonomous authority that will raise private as well as public funds.

The local commanders in the Northern Alliance negotiate with Rabbani's government for funds for their troops, but they have a great deal of autonomous authority in their districts.

But the irascible Stern is still the person holding nearly autonomous authority, and the brazen nature of sending the players home was clearly too much for him.

In black letters, the fliers asked, "Do you accept that the autonomous Authority is launching a war against Islam and Muslims to implement the demands of the American administration and Israel?" But Mr. Rantisi downplayed talk of war between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

The Dalai Lama said in an interview last week that migration by ethnic Han Chinese to the Tibetan plateau was one of the main threats to the future of Tibet, and he contended that the government in Beijing should allow a regional autonomous authority run by Tibetans to limit future migration as well as make policy on education, language and use of natural resources.

Over recent years, the Kurdistan Regional Government — the autonomous authority in Iraq's northernmost provinces — appears to have quietly shifted from ignoring police who punish gays, to taking a more hands-off approach.

Second, more autonomous authority in the lower level has initiated idiosyncratic local rules and procedures.

This may include downsizing, adoption of new mandates, redeployment of personnel, and a change from a centrally-financed line agency to a financially autonomous authority or corporation (such as with NIA in the Philippines).