(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
a self-ruling island
Example sentencesExamples
The executive committee has been incorporated into the working committee in a bid to speed up the process of the tribe regaining its self-ruling status.
Provinces will be permitted to band together to form self-ruling regions if a third of provincial legislators request it and the move is backed by local referendums.
As a free, self-ruling democratic people, it is not only our right but our responsibility to vigorously and openly debate the issues.
A group of squatters overtook an abandoned army base and created a self-ruling micro-nation in the heart of Copenhagen.
They should coincide with, i.e. cover the same people as, political communities and they should be self-ruling.
As in the restive south and east of Afghanistan, the agencies are populated by self-ruling Pashtun tribes for whom war has been a way of life for centuries.
It has been self-ruling since a 2005 peace deal but the former rebels have struggled to create efficient institutions and tackle rampant corruption.
Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua, was briefly self-ruling from December 1, 1961 until December 18, 1961, when Indonesia invaded and evantually annexed it.
Part of the jaw-dropping documentary was filmed in breathtaking Greenland - the largest island in the world, and a self-ruling overseas territory of Denmark.
Definition of self-ruling in US English:
self-ruling
adjectiveˌselfˈro͞oliNGˌsɛlfˈrulɪŋ
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
a self-ruling island
Example sentencesExamples
The executive committee has been incorporated into the working committee in a bid to speed up the process of the tribe regaining its self-ruling status.
Provinces will be permitted to band together to form self-ruling regions if a third of provincial legislators request it and the move is backed by local referendums.
They should coincide with, i.e. cover the same people as, political communities and they should be self-ruling.
As a free, self-ruling democratic people, it is not only our right but our responsibility to vigorously and openly debate the issues.
A group of squatters overtook an abandoned army base and created a self-ruling micro-nation in the heart of Copenhagen.
Part of the jaw-dropping documentary was filmed in breathtaking Greenland - the largest island in the world, and a self-ruling overseas territory of Denmark.
It has been self-ruling since a 2005 peace deal but the former rebels have struggled to create efficient institutions and tackle rampant corruption.
As in the restive south and east of Afghanistan, the agencies are populated by self-ruling Pashtun tribes for whom war has been a way of life for centuries.
Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua, was briefly self-ruling from December 1, 1961 until December 18, 1961, when Indonesia invaded and evantually annexed it.