That might establish de facto self-governing entities within the shell of a weak Iraqi central government.
The British government followed a policy of allowing its colonies to become self-governing entities before giving them the option of independence.
Sir Robin's report noted how little had changed since then.There has long been a debate on whether the Turks and Caicos and other micro-states in the region are viable as self-governing entities.
These conservancies are self-governing entities that actively manage wildlife and other natural resources.
Its status as a separate, self-governing entity, dating from 1226, ended in 1937 when the Nazi regime made it part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein.
If Iraq is going to be made to work as a decent, pluralistic, self-governing entity, noted the Iraq expert Amatzia Baram of the United States Institute of Peace, all the key factions there will have to accept being "reasonably unhappy".
Some pointed out that in 1953 the United Nations General Assembly agreed that the United States did not need to continue filing reports on Puerto Rico as a dependent territory, as described in the United Nations Charter, because it had become a self-governing entity.
English nationalists can quite reasonably point out that many emerging nation states have even less experience of being a standalone, self-governing entity – my own country, Ireland, being an obvious example.
Kashmir, which is about the size of Utah, was to remain under Indian control, but continued religious warring and demands for independence led the United Nations to arrange a ceasefire in 1948, providing for two-thirds of Kashmir to be a self-governing entity within the Indian Union, and for Pakistan to be nominally in control of the remaining third.
Some formal participation by Serbs is considered vital to the success of the Western effort to turn Kosovo into a democratic, self-governing entity where all ethnic groups can live peacefully -- even if separated into enclaves behind barbed wire and guarded by foreign peacekeepers.
Explaining the 1867 act that made Canada a self-governing entity within the British Empire, she encouraged the students to turn to a partner across the aisle and engage in the following dialogue, spoken in the snootiest possible tones: "Here's a dollop of independence".
