self-governed
Example Sentences
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He also told Trump that Washington should be "prudent" when supplying weapons to the self-governed island which China has long claimed.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
Taiwan’s religious diversity and vitality forms a kind of subsoil of the self-governed island’s identity and values.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
The foreign secretary's visit is against a backdrop of continued calls by Argentina for the self-governed territory to be handed to Buenos Aires.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024
The self-governed enclave had 10,000 fighters at its disposal according to Azerbaijan, whose own army - estimated at over 120,000-strong by Western experts - dwarfed it.
From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023
Under Diocletian it had become apparent that the self-governed Christian corporations everywhere arising were altogether incompatible with the imperial system.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
