Perhaps Christmas faces a tragic choice in which he can only achieve autonomy from his mother by denying himself her love.

They achieved autonomy, an impossible goal during the socialist regime.

To illustrate the point, she said she had achieved autonomy in her career.

French space policy seeks to achieve autonomy via European co-operation.

However, Italy's policy of autarky failed to achieve effective economic autonomy.

The country therefore had to fight not just in modern times to maintain its own identity and achieve full autonomy, especially in the neighboring countries.

Talks on achieving autonomy began in 1980 but failed to reach agreement.

The two countries achieved relative autonomy by different paths, but both managed to satisfy Soviet security needs.

Nonetheless, a looming question is how they will continue here once the Palestinians achieve autonomy.

"We had achieved political autonomy from the British, but no other kind," he said.