Sentence examples for bit of autonomy from inspiring English sources

"They like that little bit of autonomy," he said.

"It's a demanding job, but it affords you quite a bit of autonomy," said von Appen, who will turn 59 next week.

Although Canadian local governments are generally seen as substantially inferior to the two senior levels of government, those in British Columbia have in fact managed to achieve quite a bit of autonomy due to non-constitutional factors.

IT HAS taken a while for Britain's political classes to recover from their post-war torpor, but the row over giving a few hospitals a bit of autonomy in the way they manage their affairs has done the trick.

For Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, the task of Mr Kadyrov was to validate the policy of "Chechenisation": the idea that putting the region in Chechen hands, with a bit of autonomy (not independence), could succeed where brute force failed.The assassination has scuttled that idea.

This requires, among other things, the freedom to exercise a good bit of autonomy.

That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You've traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness of one, the protection of the other.

While the Terminator scenario of cyborg soldiers is decades in the future, if not a complete fantasy, the militaries of the world are already moving along a spectrum of autonomy, increasing, bit by bit, the authority of machines in combat.

Bit by bit, the autonomy of teachers is being chipped away at by people who don't trust us to be able to plan effectively for the children we teach.

Moreover, today's nursing home patients belong to a generation that is trained to do what the medical staff recommends, i.e. the principle of autonomy may be a bit delusive.

The ticklish Catalan question appears to have been answered, with a bit of fudging, through a new autonomy statute.