Sentence examples for expressions of autonomy from inspiring English sources

But was Marie Antoinette really a spirited rebel challenging "the oppressive cultural strictures and harsh political animosities that beset her... by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige"?

The first study was designed to determine whether expressions of autonomy and relatedness in autobiographical narrative vary by age of memories and by (sub) cultural specificity within one (Russian) language sample.

From the headline-grabbing but mischievous to the bureaucratic but revolutionary, political, cultural, linguistic and even legal expressions of autonomy keep piling up: the islands of Scotland remain stubbornly different from the rest of the UK (and, for that matter, from the rest of Scotland).

There was Maya, whose parents interpreted any expression of autonomy as her "not being herself" and therefore part of her illness.

After all, a decision to delegate is also an expression of autonomy.

Namely, if "heteronomous" means "not free," then it also means "not responsible". Thus, in repudiating the moral law one not only ceases to be a "person" (since one rejects one's "humanity," i.e. one's own inner expression of autonomy); one also cannot be held responsible for one's immorality.

Agents who are autonomous in the sense of being self-legislating do not consistently act rightly due simply to their commitment to morality; it is that latter way of acting that we might think of as the fullest expression of autonomy in action (cf. Baxley 2010, 57 61).

For Leonard, memes are an expression of autonomy and resistance.

In our recommendations, the expression of autonomy is not removed, but shifted to a more appropriate place.

If options of prematurely ending one's life are known beforehand, VSED is an expression of autonomy and control, and therefore a sign of the patient's competence.

Voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a process in which a cognitively intact and competent person voluntarily and deliberately chooses to shorten their life by stopping eating and drinking and can be regarded as an expression of autonomy and control [ 25].