Sentence examples for had been autonomous from inspiring English sources

Until that time universities had been autonomous institutions.

Since the middle of the 13th century, the area of Vidin had been autonomous under ineffective Bulgarian overlordship, and was ruled successively by Yakov Svetoslav (died 1276), Shishman (died between 1308 and 1313), and then Michael Shishman.

In contrast, a third of the military's air fleet has been autonomous since 2012, meeting a goal set by Congress a dozen years ago.

The area has been autonomous since 1991, following the end of the Gulf War, when American jets set up what they called a "no-fly zone" over Kurdish territory, effectively preventing Saddam Hussein's armies and air force from moving into the area.

Iraqi Kurdistan has been autonomous within Iraq since Western powers imposed a no-fly-zone in the early 1990s to protect the Kurds from retaliation by then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Most respondents (32.43%) self-assessed their program as having been "somewhat autonomous"; however, a nearly-equivalent number self-assessed their program as having been "autonomous" (21.62%) or "very autonomous" (27.03%).

This aggressive disidentification with Los Angeles was the reason the Orange County edition had been made autonomous.

This assured a reasonably equitable distribution of land, as well as government control of the large estates that heretofore had been virtually autonomous.

Under the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, Kosovo had been granted autonomous status within the Republic of Serbia.

But even when the communication is far from neutral, the communication can sometimes be consistent with the wishes patients would have had if they had been more autonomous.

Adolescents who had been less autonomous during early childhood were more fearful about going out at night, felt lonelier and had weaker ties to their community [ 34].