Sentence examples for self-governing entity from inspiring English sources

The Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act of 1978 established the Northern Territory as a self-governing entity.

Work was still under way when the college was incorporated by royal charter in 1958, thereby becoming a self-governing entity.

But Club Magnus was essentially a self-governing entity, with the host happy to take to his bed for a few hours on a Monday evening and to come up smiling on Tuesday morning to carry on the party, safe in the knowledge that all would be well.

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.

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.

These conservancies are self-governing entities that actively manage wildlife and other natural resources.

The former do not like the emergence, in northern Iraq, of a bumptiously self-governing Kurdish entity that could act as a magnet or encouragement to their own large Kurdish minority.

Unlike machines, whose governing functions are embedded by human designers, organisms are self-governing.

Each fraternity, sorority, and independent living group is self-governing.

That is not how a proper self-governing people behave.