The former maintained a wide degree of autonomy, especially during the period of liberal reforms during the 1860s and '70s.
The week demonstrated a wide degree of contrasts, from leading thinking on how to address the nexus challenge, to grappling with basic data collection and understanding.
There is also a wide degree of agreement about the need for moratoria on both sides where divisive actions are concerned".
Most Christians in Israel are Arabs, and Christian communities in Israel, regardless of ethnicity, have a wide degree of autonomy in religious and communal affairs.
But the rulers in Beijing also give local officials a wide degree of autonomy, including how to handle critics and stifle those considered troublemakers.
In the postwar era, Marshal Tito, himself half-Croatian, reorganized the country on a federal basis, in which each republic nominally exercised a wide degree of autonomy.
To protect British subjects from being extradited on political or spurious grounds, our extradition system has always permitted a wide degree of discretion.
It is the wide degree of divergence between such policies that has made progress towards the substantive cross-border harmonisation of insolvency law so difficult.
The discussions appear to be unfolding without the approval of Pakistan's leaders, who are believed to exercise a wide degree of control over the Taliban's leadership.
At further discussions in London in June 1962, it was agreed that Buganda should receive a wide degree of autonomy within a federal relationship.
Regarding the cleavage pattern on polysaccharides, the release of oligosaccharides with a wide degree of polymerization indicated a characteristic of endoglucanase activity.
