Sentence examples for autonomous with a from inspiring English sources

Scotland, which to most of Whitehall was once a mere region, has evolved from the land that proved too nervous to seize the chance of devolution in 1979, and is today increasingly autonomous with a distinct party system, in which outright separatists are all-conquering.

It appears that such villages were economically self-contained and politically autonomous, with an egalitarian social order.

Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions known as "autonomous communities" with a high degree of self-government, including responsibility for health care.

One relevant characteristic of the Spanish NHS is that Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, known as "Autonomous Communities", with a high degree of self-government, including the responsibility for health care.

An apologetic statement by the then foreign secretary David Miliband stated that Britain now recognised Tibet as part of the People's Republic of China, after almost a century of recognising Tibet as "autonomous", with China having a "special position" there.

Until that day, the British had described Tibet as autonomous, with China having a "special position" there.

Many, including the governors of all five Ibo states, are proposing that Nigeria become a country of a few large autonomous regions with a relatively weak federal government.

They set up skunk works (small, autonomous units with a remit to innovate) and mock the boring corporate types who write their pay-cheques.

"As an autonomous organisation with a different governance structure to the IOC, the IPC's decision was based on the fact that there is one sole IPC member in Russia responsible for both winter and summer Para sport.

Biden joined Gelb on the Op-Ed page last year; by then, Gelb's three states had become "three largely autonomous regions with a viable central government in Baghdad," an arrangement permitted by Iraq's new constitution.

It is an autonomous organisation with a working relationship with the United Nations.