We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of self-governing in English
(Of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "independent"
Examples for "independent"
1
Consumers may find good deals at local independent pharmacies, Consumer Reports said.
2
Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state.
3
National's defence spokesperson Mark Mitchell today said the government should remain independent.
4
Last year, workers launched strikes demanding recognition of a new, independent union.
5
The Anglo-Irish Treaty resulted, which launched this State on its independent course.
1
The other key risk especially in Europe is the sovereign debt crisis.
2
They are able to solve the sovereign debt crisis, Mr Zhou said.
3
Business from Europe has been dampened by sovereign debt crises, he said.
4
There is not any clear way out of the sovereign debt crisis.
5
But business in Spain has suffered due to Europe's sovereign debt crisis.
1
The autonomous region has its own constitution, political system and public service.
2
For example, we don't know how parking will work for autonomous vehicles.
3
Do we believe that a shared, electric, autonomous mobility environment is possible?
4
An autonomous, non-politicised civil service is lacking, especially at sub-national government levels.
5
Today, autonomous vehicles are about as good as a standard crappy driver.
Usage of self-governing in English
1
For the people of the plain were self-governing; they had no lords.
2
This incident illustrates the underlying principle of taxation in a self-governing community.
3
Up to that date they had not been self-governing; the Governor ruled.
4
So it was altered until practically the colonists became a self-governing people.
5
We wish this great country of ours to be greater and self-governing.
6
A Greek city, being independent and self-governing, is properly called a city-state.
7
Greenland and the Faroe Islands are self-governing countries within the Kingdom of Denmark.
8
So, we think of ourselves as autonomous, self-governing human-beings in our own right.
9
In effect, strike or no strike, the district was already self-governing.
10
They revolted however, in A. D. 40, and declared themselves a self-governing community.
11
Every decision is a communal one for the self-governing Ensemble Modern.
12
They are self-governing, yes, but they are British crown dependent territories.
13
The idea that we the people are self-governing is a mirage.
14
By the divine blessing on such experiences, the self-governing power usually gains strength.
15
Gibraltar is an economically self-reliant, and mostly self-governing British Overseas Territory.
16
Canada was represented by some of the high officials of that self-governing colony.