Sentence examples for autonomous powers from inspiring English sources

Kurdish leaders say they want to retain broad autonomous powers in the region, including the use of the pesh merga.

Mr. Annan's plan calls for a loosely federated state with Greeks and Turks maintaining autonomous powers over domestic affairs.

The Chinese government has accused the Dalai Lama of fomenting separatist violence; he says he is pushing only for autonomous powers that are outlined in the Chinese Constitution.

The head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption will be stripped of her autonomous powers under a new plan to overhaul the body's structure.

Now, pro-statehood activists were joining the effort, out of frustration with Washington's apparent reluctance to either embrace statehood or expand Puerto Rico's autonomous powers.

1978 Spain's new democratic constitution gives autonomous powers to a Basque government in the provinces of Alava, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa, with a parliament, police force, control over education, and tax-raising powers.

Dyke has the autonomous power to move money and the schedule around".

"Before now," he said loudly, "there were commanders with autonomous power.

Writer says that childhood is much more like incarceration than a state of autonomous power against which adults must defend themselves.

That revolt, stimulated by Manchu attempts to cut back on the autonomous power of these generals, was finally suppressed in 1681.

Stanley Kubrick's genius at imagining entire worlds meant his images quickly acquired an autonomous power, and in Malcolm McDowell's charismatic thug, Alex (above), the film had a horribly seductive anti-hero.