The phrase "held autonomy" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in discussions about government, institutions, or organizations to refer to the level of independence or self-governance that they have. Example: The university's board of trustees has successfully negotiated for increased held autonomy, allowing them more control over budget and decision-making processes.
An old-fashioned covenant that binds two people in mutual submission sits uneasily in a secular ideology that holds personal autonomy as the highest good.
Liberal feminists hold that autonomy deficits like these are due to the "gender system" (Okin 1989, 89), or the patriarchal nature of inherited traditions and institutions, and that the women's movement should work to identify and remedy them.
The colleges hold substantial autonomy over admissions, scholarships, programs and other academic and financial affairs, in addition to the housing and social duties of typical residential colleges.
THEIR vote may have lacked legal force, but the thousands of opposition supporters celebrating the approval of an unofficial referendum on regional autonomy held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia's economic capital, on May 4th sensed a political triumph.
The factors that most often played into a minority teacher's decision to leave the classroom "were the level of collective faculty decision-making influence in the school and the degree of individual instructional autonomy held by teachers in their classrooms," the brief said.
Given Greece's prior decision to embrace the euro as its currency, it no longer held monetary policy autonomy and could not intervene to depreciate a national currency to absorb the shock and boost competitiveness, as was the traditional solution to sudden capital flight.
For example, the subcultural values of autonomy held by physicians or pragmaticism held by nurses may be sources of resistance to change [ 30, 56].
A strong and uncompromising defense of the harm principle, it may be thought, must be based on a different understanding of the value of autonomy, one that holds that the autonomy of persons cannot be infringed even when doing so is, all things considered, in their best interests.
This view is often understood to be rooted in the principle of respect for autonomy; deception is held to undermine a patient's autonomy, treating her merely as a means (Beauchamp and Childress 2009).
By departing from his deeply held belief in state autonomy to side with the Republican Party in a redistricting case, Chief Justice Rehnquist has once again invited the public to question this court's motives.
