self-governing

How To Use self-governing In A Sentence

• As a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire, New Zealand was not technically a sovereign state in 1939.
• Greenland is classified as a self-governing dependency and has been ruled by Denmark since 1721.
• The aim is to transfer power/control/responsibility to self-governing regional councils.
• There you have a whole phalanx of state-owned media, which are mainly ‘self-governing’ in the sense that they have their own boards and bosses, and it is only really State House which they have to worry about overruling them.
• This self-governing Australian external territory juts out, like a green volcanic periscope that has risen in mid-ocean for a look-see, approximately half way between Australia and New Zealand.
• Local authorities will play an even bigger role in the admission policies of the new self-governing state schools, it emerged yesterday.
• Each of these was built along the Babylonian model, as a self-governing fragment of the fallen Judean kingdom.
• an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing
• Rather, the Church is to be self-extending, self-governing, and self-supporting because these characteristics arise from the nature of Christian faith.
• At present, these courts are governed by the statutes of the former apartheid government and the former homelands and self-governing territories.