Sentence examples for autonomous rule from inspiring English sources

The Kurds are an exception because they have had de facto autonomous rule since 1991.

These powerful personages, who headed Jewish communities given autonomous rule, reported directly to the monarch.

Since 1991, when the United States and Britain declared northern Iraq a no-flight zone, the large Kurdish region has enjoyed virtually autonomous rule.

Ed Martin New York, June 3 , 2009• To the Editor: Let's remember that Israel is the only country that gave land to the Palestinians for their autonomous rule.

And it gives 12 separate bands within the Tribal Council autonomous rule over almost 260 square miles of old-growth forests, beachfronts and mountainsides on Vancouver Island and nearby Meares Island.

A6 Spain Faces Catalonian Break Spain's prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, will try to make good on a 2004 campaign promise by shepherding Catalonian demands for autonomous rule through Spain's national Parliament.

Any attempt to establish an objective rock canon is equally doomed to failure; rock is not this sort of autonomous, rule-bound aesthetic form.

During the Seleucid period, the trend of local ruling dynasties with semi-autonomous rule, and sometimes outright rebellious rule, became commonplace, a fact reflected in the later Parthian style of governance.

Facing mass unrest, Iraq's Sunni Arab provincial councils voted for semi-autonomous rule like that of the neighbouring Kurdistan region.

In later centuries Banī Suwayf became the chief town of the second province of Upper Egypt, attaining special prominence under the Turkish governor and the autonomous ruler Muḥammad ʿAlī (ruled 1805 48).

Although initially loyal to the Fatimids, he too held ambitions to rule Palestine as an autonomous ruler.