Self-governing used in a sentence

Self-governing in a sentence as an adjective

The polis; an autonomous, self-governing form of city state, invented around 800 BC.

I think he's counting in Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as distinct, largely self-governing regions.

I haven't seen a clever self-governing mechanism that addresses this social dynamic.

This is not a new thing, Yugoslavia had something similar some 30-40 years ago, it was called self-governing socialism.

What there is is a self-governing democracy with large country next door intent on enforcing territorial claims that were murky when they last occupied the place 200 years ago.

Some of the managers were adamant that all teams have a team meeting, with one of the "managers" sitting in, mainly because our technical manager had left and we were kinda self-governing in what we needed as developers.

Beautiful, warm, covered in free wifi, self-governing but technically part of the UK. Economically they're in rough shape, but since the government is serious about improving their self-sufficiency, there are opportunities everywhere.

And, as an ostensibly self-governing citizenry, how are we to effectively govern as such policies increasingly cut us off from controversial parts of the world we might do well to actually pay more attention to?

"The rebellious youths in the movement say they are less concerned about what Taiwan calls itself sovereign, independent or a self-governing area within China"If Taiwan was an area within China, they wouldn't be able to have this group in the first place and most forms of Democracy would be gone.