How to Use self-governance in a Sentence

self-governance

noun

• Critics have said the law takes away self-governance in Jackson and Hinds County.
  — USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• The names of the store and the nonprofit nod to D.C.’s self-governance, itself in as precarious a situation as the debt ceiling was a few weeks ago.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• For any kind of future agreement, if there is to be one, there has to be clarity that the Palestinian public does not just want self-governance.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Leaving behind any trace of pop, Guzmán places all bets on her core sound, punk rock, and delivers hard-hitting lyrics about self-governance.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
• The governor is trying to strip the company of its self-governance, and has proposed that a prison or a competing theme park be built near Walt Disney World.
  — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Certain core themes — about nature’s self-governance, for instance, or the author’s quest for fame — echo across these works in ways that demonstrate her playful approach to genre and her audience.
  — Anne M. Thell, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• Broadly, the Security Council aimed at the two main prongs of security and self-governance.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Only a true American, the Founders believed, had the right to participate in American self-governance.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• Hybrid models, like on Reddit, mix centralized and self-governance.
  — Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• On a smaller scale, total self-governance – echoing early online spaces – could be key for communities that serve specific subsets of users.
  — Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• Local self-governance may, of course, be oppressive or exclusionary.
  — Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
• The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• The committee’s next hearing is the latest sign of House Republicans seeking to rein in the district’s self-governance, especially its local jurisdiction over crime and public safety.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 4 May 2023
• During the free month-long program, students combine classroom study with manual labor and self-governance, aspects intended to give them hands-on experience with the natural world and build their civic engagement skills.
  — Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• This country was founded by people who wanted political and religious freedom and self-governance.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
• No one knows how much the impeachment trial will end up costing Texas taxpayers, but legal experts say such expenses are critically important to self-governance.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 19 June 2023
• An election run smoothly, delivering a complex result that will force the parties to share levers of power, is another victory for Taiwan’s democratic self-governance and a setback for Beijing.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Policing grew out of these dominant capitalist dynamics, rather than some idealized vision of self-governance or a notion of security for all.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
• The Chinese Communist government has consistently claimed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the island's self-governance and the absence of any historical rule.
  — TIME, 13 Jan. 2024
• Because this act proved devastating to tribes, Congress enacted the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934 in an attempt to remedy the harmful effects of allotment and to promote tribal self-governance.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Historically, Tanden said, federal policies attacked Native people’s rights to self-governance and caused lasting economic damage.
  — Colleen Long, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
• Iranians call for change aligns with American ideals of liberty and self-governance, reminding us of historical instances where solidarity facilitated substantial change in other parts of the world.
  — Kazem Kazerounian, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2024
• Perhaps counterintuitively, this uneven relationship is what Osages have used to assert self-governance.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• But ultimate, with its emphasis on self-governance, provides an opportunity to foster peace among Assam’s newest generation.
  — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• Establishing these towns provided Black people with the opportunity for self-governance and independence.
  — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• The founders predicated this entrustment of self-governance on a noble Enlightenment idea: that citizens are fundamentally virtuous.
  — Michael Szalma, Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2024
• Unlike America’s renowned Declaration of Independence, which lays out a detailed philosophical argument for self-governance, republicanism, and natural rights, Israel’s has long been seen as little more than a pragmatic statement of intent.
  — Bobby Miller, National Review, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024