(n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
(n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(3) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(4) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(5) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(6) In all iodine-deficient regions such as the GDR, a frequent occurrence of thyroid autonomy with manifestation of hyperthyroidism following iodine contamination has to be taken into account.
(7) Like the doctor who makes a decision to operate without consulting the patient, I’m diminishing your autonomy by undermining it.
(8) These results are discussed in terms of the role of contaminants in the observed synthesis, the "normalcy" of Acetabularia chloroplasts, the synthetic pathways for amino acids in plastids, and the implications of these observations for cell compartmentation and chloroplast autonomy.
(9) Sepah’s officers told him he must quit writing and cease his promotion of Kurdish autonomy or it would be years before he knew freedom again.
(10) Doctors should respect the principle of doing good and doing no harm, but they should also have respect for the patient’s views and choices about their condition and treatment, and respect their autonomy over decisions that affect them directly.
(11) The isolation and characterization of factor-independent mutants allowed the identification of genes involved in growth autonomy.
(12) The shares fell 45% on his watch, with an especially big dip coming after the Autonomy deal was announced.
(13) Prenatal informed consent for sonogram, a primarily autonomy-based indication, should be given the same weight in clinical judgment and practice as the beneficence-based indications listed by the National Institutes of Health consensus panel.
(14) The survey covered factors considered vital to resident education, including operative experience, input into preoperative and postoperative decisions, autonomy, and time demands, and an overall rating (OR) of the educational quality of the rotations.
(15) Childress defends the principle of respect for personal autonomy as one among several important moral principles in biomedical ethics.
(16) Labour has suggested giving Holyrood control of income tax; the Lib Dems support the idea of fiscal autonomy; while the Conservatives say they are committed to "a strengthening of devolution".
(17) HP called in PricewaterhouseCoopers to do a forensic review of Autonomy's historical financial results.
(18) A working seminar elucidated their fears about professional incomes and about increased patient autonomy.
(19) The treatment we propose for the post-partum psychotic crises in a day unit would ease: 1) The preservation of part of the patient's autonomy which would valorise her.
(20) A diminished public respect for physicians, a decrease in professional autonomy, and an increased regulatory presence have led to extensive changes in medical practice in the past 25 years.
Nationhood
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Arguing for a new nation state, the white paper understands that the old tropes of nationhood will no longer do, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism.
(2) Speaking scientifically about the nation – for instance in terms of macroeconomics – is an insult to those who would prefer to rely on memory and narrative for their sense of nationhood, and are sick of being told that their “imagined community” does not exist.
(3) It is a story recalled by its main players in a series of remarkably frank conversations as one of unlikely alliances and bitter divisions, a clash of power, identity and the deepest questions of nationhood.
(4) At its height, the welfare state was a symbol of nationhood and solidarity that helped Scots to feel at home in Britain.
(5) Then came Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem , a wild, unfettered meditation on nationhood that became one of the biggest-grossing new plays in West End history, a battered lament for Englishness that has now found a home on Broadway ( on Sunday, Mark Rylance's central performance took a Tony award ; the production will return to the UK, with Rylance, this autumn).
(6) British nationhood is just 300 years old, a blink in human history.
(7) In the Middle East, where sport has over the past 15 years become increasingly important as a means of projecting soft power and building nationhood, involvement in bidding for events and climbing the greasy pole in international sports organisations has become a useful means of obtaining and retaining personal standing.
(8) All the mad conflicts over nationhood and identity and constitutional structures had ceased to trouble the essential British settlement.
(9) Above all, the identity politics of nationhood and belonging, Englishness and Scottishness, has completely transformed our political culture.
(10) In the second half of the 20th century, these people, exhausted by the struggle with themselves and against one another, had need of a unifying figure to give them a vision of nationhood.
(11) Many of the props of nationhood date from this era: be it the union flag, Jerusalem, Rule Britannia, the tune of the national anthem or the mapping of the nation in the form of Ordnance Survey maps.
(12) Clegg told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "I certainly think in many ways actually what the Scottish people want isn't exactly on the ballot paper – which is a greater expression of Scottish nationhood, greater devolution of powers from London to Holyrood, what is called in the jargon "devo-max" or in Liberal Democrat language, ever since the days of Gladstone, home rule.
(13) On 12 January 2015 this article was amended to change “Australian sovereignty” to “Australian nationhood” in the third last paragraph.
(14) Photograph: Queenie Mckenzie estate When considering the cultural resonance of frontier war it helps to remember that the last widely-accepted massacre, at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928, is considerably closer to the living memory of the communities it affected than the invasion of Gallipoli in 1915 - the first act in a war that would kill about 62,000 Australians and, contestably, define the nationhood of the new federation (incidentally, one of the main perpetrators of the Coniston Massacre was a Gallipoli veteran, George Murray, who would later boast in an interview about killing territorial Aboriginals.)
(15) Because if the commonwealth of Australia can do that then we can do it ... what makes it more real?” Staying real, Murrumu recently won another small step on the road to commonwealth and Queensland recognition of Yidindji nationhood when a local church school accepted a Yidindji birth certificate to enrol his son.
(16) Constable's Salisbury Cathedral is a sublime image of Britishness, of nationhood, just as Turner's two canvases of the rise and fall of the Carthaginian empire comment more sceptically on the fate of opulence.
(17) Naturally, the constitutional argument remains crucial – independence as an expression of nationhood.
(18) Michael Kenny is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, and author of The Politics of English Nationhood (Oxford University Press)
(19) The other part is about how powerful political ideals became invested in these techniques: ideals of “evidence-based policy”, rationality, progress and nationhood grounded in facts, rather than in romanticised stories.
(20) The unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty burns at the core of Australian nationhood.