Sentence examples for concede autonomy from inspiring English sources
The European powers, however, forced Abdülhamid to concede autonomy to Crete.
According to the Treaty of San Stefano (March 3 , 1878, the Ottomans were to recognize the independence of Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro and cede territory to them, concede autonomy to an extensive new state of Bulgaria, cede territory to Russia in the Dobruja (west of the Black Sea) and eastern Asia Minor, introduce various administrative reforms, and pay an indemnity.
When the French reoccupied Laos, Souvanna fled to exile in Bangkok, but returned to Laos in 1949 as France began conceding autonomy to Laos.
In 2003, India conceded autonomy to the Bodo, but the NDFB-S fought on.
Advocates of procedural accounts of autonomy concede that the enabling conditions do not rule out that a woman could choose, for example, to undergo clitorectomy (Meyers 2004, 213) or become a pornographic model (Cudd 2004, 58).
Attempts at a peace deal with Assad in recent months have failed, which the Syrian Democratic Council blames on Assad being unwilling to concede meaningful political autonomy to the Kurdish-held region.
In exchange the Kosovo authorities concede a level of autonomy to four Serb-controlled areas of northern Kosovo.
The independence referendum failed, but in order to placate the Scots, London will have to concede far more regional autonomy.
Central government will concede a high degree of autonomy to would-be separatists, but retain sovereignty.
The majority Sunni Arabs are unlikely to concede to demands for regional autonomy.
Would they concede, for example, that human autonomy cannot always be the overriding value?
