Sentence examples for self-governing area from inspiring English sources

Bodo Liberation Tigers signed a peace accord with the Indian government in 2003 and won a self-governing area, the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts.

It has suggested schemes for permanent partition of the region along current lines -- part of Kashmir is already in Pakistan -- or a self-governing area that maintains Indian sovereignty and some kind of relationship with Pakistan.

In the mid-nineteen-seventies, with the backing of the Shah of Iran, Israel, and the Central Intelligence Agency, Kurdish rebels secured a large self-governing area in northern Iraq.

The Government of Ireland Act (1920) split Ireland into two self-governing areas, both with devolved powers approximating to Home Rule.

But the self-governing areas he returned to were the merest fragments, in Jericho and Gaza, not merely of original 1948 Palestine, but of the post-1967 22% of it on which he was to build his state.

Åland has special status as a demilitarized, self-governing region.

This could be presented as the most representative self-governing region.

Fig. 1 Equipment distribution according to the self-governing region and its type.

A district is a self-governing administrative area; its health system is headed by a District Health Officer DHOO), who is both the technical and administrative manager of public health services and has a stewardship role of the entire district health system.

The orchestra was created by and for the foreign residents of Shanghai who had lived in self-governing concession areas since the Opium War in 1842.

This is patent in the self-governing tribal areas along the Afghan border, but the most striking current example is the Swat Valley, once a honeymooners' paradise and now a militant statelet within Pakistan's formal jurisdiction.