Sentence examples for maintained its autonomy from inspiring English sources

After suffering during the barbarian invasions, the town recovered by the 10th century, became an imperial free city, and maintained its autonomy to some degree until 1816.

Ever since it broke with the Eastern Church in the 5th century, the Coptic Orthodox Church has maintained its autonomy, and its beliefs and ritual have remained basically unchanged.

For much of the next three centuries the kingdom of Jaffna generally maintained its autonomy, the major exception being a period of subjugation (1450 77) by the Sinhalese Kotte kingdom.

Another reason the central bank has been reluctant to expand monetary policy, and to maintain its autonomy from the government, is that it does not want to be seen as a printing press that finances government spending.

While Chinese-Soviet rivalry allowed Hanoi to maintain its autonomy while extracting maximum aid from both countries, the Afghan insurgency enjoys no such advantage, especially since neighboring Iran's influence is limited.

The severity of the recommendations also highlights the U.S.O.C.'s needs to reduce the infighting of an organization whose current board is composed of people with competing interests, and to maintain its autonomy rather than risk letting Congress assume direct oversight.

Under the new organizational structure, Genentech Research and Early Development program, dubbed gRED, which essentially comprises basic research up to Phase 2 clinical trials, will maintain its autonomy.

They have struggled to spell out the link between June 4th and the development of Hong Kong's sense of self, its struggle to maintain its autonomy and its fight for greater democracy.

The Hasan-Jalalyan family was able to maintain its autonomy throughout several centuries of foreign domination of the region by Seljuk Turks, Persians and Mongols as they, as well as the other Armenian princes and meliks of Khachen, saw themselves of holding the last bastion of Armenian independence in the region.

Alternatively, the proximal hnRNP A2/B1 exon may maintain its autonomy and splice to a cryptic 3' splice site, located either in Neo or in the adjacent intron.

Though the province maintained its nominal autonomy, some local groups continued to call for a more extensive form of self-rule.