self-determination
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What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
“We were fighting not only for sewer, potholes and police protection but for self-determination and empowerment of our community,” Martinez de Vara wrote in a firsthand account of the incorporation campaign.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Downing Street has said that sovereignty of the Falkland Islands "rests with the UK" and that the islanders' right to self-determination is paramount.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Her formidable, untitled 2026 sphinx regally commands its space among ancient Egyptian and Roman sculpture, a marvel of the cross-temporal and cross-spatial, spiked with specific references to Black self-determination.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
He preached self-reliance and self-determination, and called his philosophy Africanism.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing self-determination
Political Geography - Middle School
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World War I
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