Sentence examples for campaigning for autonomy from inspiring English sources
Sheila spent her life campaigning for autonomy and choice in childbirth and challenging the medicalisation of birth.
As for the Bengalis, Nixon was unable to pronounce or even to recognize the name of their leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, popularly known as Mujib, who had been campaigning for autonomy for East Pakistan.
Human rights groups accuse the authorities of the systematic destruction of Tibetan Buddhist culture and the persecution of monks loyal to the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader who is campaigning for autonomy within China.
In recent years, the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) has been campaigning for autonomy for Kenya's largely Muslim coastal region, arguing that local people see little economic benefit from the region's trading ports and tourist industry.
Support for the OPC, already high in the neighbourhood, jumped.The group was founded in 1995 to campaign for autonomy for the Yoruba people in south-west Nigeria.
The region is preodminantly Kurdish and an area where rebels are waging an armed campaign for autonomy from Turkey.
In 2003, after a long, violent campaign for autonomy, the Bodo got their own Bodo Territorial Council, on whose turf outsiders may not own property.
The Chinese government indulged him, hoping to use him to legitimize its rule over Tibet and to blunt the impact of the Dalai Lama's international campaign for autonomy.
During a visit to the archipelago in May, Macron acknowledged the "pains of colonisation" and saluted the "dignified" campaign for autonomy led by the Kanaks.
Boston is proud of its "forward-thinking" stances on controversial issues such as universal health care, but Mr Sangay's new home, at the centre of the Tibetan campaign for autonomy from China, may present a more challenging political atmosphere.
It seems a contradiction that the disability rights movement campaigns for autonomy in every other area of life except this one, where it claims that dying disabled people are vulnerable and cannot decide for themselves.
