What we are trying to do is to assert the Union's autonomy.

The poorest peasant could assert autonomy by putting life on the line.

After Yuan's death in 1916, local military leaders, or warlords, asserted autonomy.

Daniel Shybunko has told her to expect a different opinion about the pictures as they "assert their own autonomy."

Every part of a Wheeler composition is carefully worked into the total scheme yet also asserts its own visual autonomy.

Tarabai who asserted her autonomy by founding an independent dynasty.

The latter struggles to assert his autonomy, mightily and to an uncertain conclusion.

Teen-agers may drop out of an activity as a way of asserting their autonomy.

Sometimes it asserts autonomy within a larger nation-state.

Greenberg's answer to the anything-goes problem was to assert art's autonomy, its independence within itself and its own traditions.