Synonym: liberty, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency. Similar words: economy, auto, economic, economics, economist, astronomer, put on, automatic. Meaning: [-mɪ] n. 1. immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence 2. personal independence.
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61 The judges were looking for books that challenged pupils to get to grips with big concepts while giving teachers autonomy and flexibility.
62 The peak associations have some autonomy from the state, but they are supposed to work together for common national interests.
63 These boards and commissions had varying amounts of autonomy from city departments and the public officials who appointed them.
64 Giving autonomy to the local sensors and muscles, to make their own decisions, can be dangerous.
65 The region's agitation for autonomy could tear the country apart.
66 The deal was described as an alliance,(www.Sentencedict.com) and Crocker was allowed complete autonomy.
67 Congregations may belong to a Union of Baptist Churches, but each has considerable autonomy.
68 Professionals, in contrast to members of other occupations, claim and are often accorded complete autonomy in their work.
69 The notion of relative autonomy raises the question of the limits within which the state's autonomy may vary.
70 First, the relative autonomy of railway management means that the assessment of its performance by outside authorities is problematic.
71 Although people occasionally discussed questions of local autonomy in private, they rarely raised them, even obliquely, in public.
72 Rather, we claim, it is the political objective of removing local government's autonomy that is at issue.
73 Mission-driven budgets give managers the autonomy they need to respond to changing circumstances.
74 In such occupations autonomy is cherished as a means of adapting to an uncertain environment.
75 Nor would the dispute be of any great interest, because the explanatory role allotted to individual autonomy is so minimal.
76 Being in employment had given these women personal confidence, a sense of independence, autonomy and pride.
77 They also enjoyed a distinct autonomy from the Lords, the King, and the Ministers of the Crown.
78 Apparently, then, Hegel is extending a notion of full autonomy to the sphere of love-making.
79 As will be seen, autonomy in water supply and sewage were added later in the design.
80 Their belief in individual autonomy is such that even children are not required to obey their elders.
81 Educators want to develop autonomy in those who pass through.
82 The document stated that Kurdish cultural rights were to be recognized and that Kurdish regions would enjoy increased autonomy in local government.
83 Such a general concept was to be provided by Althusser's theory of relative autonomy within a structure in dominance.
84 Covering is the response of officials enjoying substantial autonomy to efforts at organizational control.
85 Each company is given considerable autonomy so it can know and respond to local markets.
86 No longer is the concern a simple alternative - local autonomy or centralisation.
87 The Catalans have also achieved a tremendously high level of autonomy.
88 The central axis of their variation is their degree of autonomy.
89 The first is associated with the state's need for autonomy from society.
90 We live in a knowledge-based economy, in which educated workers bridle at commands and demand autonomy.
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