Sentence examples for gained autonomy from inspiring English sources

Over that time, governors – who previously served at the president's pleasure – gained autonomy and received increased federal funds to spend with little oversight.

Aceh introduced a version of sharia law in 2009 after it gained autonomy in a 2005 deal, ending a long-running separatist war.

This also meant that they had gained autonomy from the more distant authority of the Byzantine emperor, with whom they were also often in religious disagreement.

After Brazilian independence Rio Negro remained dependent on the state of Pará until 1850, when it gained autonomy, becoming the province of Amazonas in 1852.

National Postal Museum, Washington The Saar Territory, a region bordering France, Germany and Luxembourg and administered by the League of Nations, gained autonomy with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

But in the years after the Russians withdrew and Chechnya gained autonomy, though not outright independence, he broke with Aslan Maskhadov, who was the elected president of the republic until Russian troops invaded again in 1999 and ousted him.

Its success in gaining autonomy weakened the power of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party.

In 1954 these dependencies were organized into the Netherlands Antilles, with each of them gaining autonomy in local affairs.

To inoculate itself against such disruption, Santa Cruz wants to gain autonomy from the central government in La Paz.Bolivia's tensions stir wider worries.

The shifts that started in cities have spread to less populated regions — women going to work, gaining autonomy, and re-arranging the order of traditional families.

The eight members of two parties representing the Tamil minority walked out Parliament, saying the reforms were a diversion from the country's 18-year civil war over the Tamils' efforts to gain autonomy.