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self-determining - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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She was driven not only by the need to provide for herself and for her family but by her desire to restore to the women of Kabul their belief in themselves as self-determining and self-sufficient.
Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011
It sees women not as self-determining individuals but as objects who must be prodded and starved and drained of personality to fit a template of the man's choosing.
Johann Hari: Promoting Anorexia: An Interview With Kenneth Tong. This Was No Hoax Johann Hari 2011
She was driven not only by the need to provide for herself and for her family but by her desire to restore to the women of Kabul their belief in themselves as self-determining and self-sufficient.
Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011
(Judea as a coherent self-determining state, lasted less than two hundred years).
Think Progress » Netanyahu Apologizes For Settlements News, Despite Recently Appearing With Pro-Settlement Cleric Hagee 2010
It sees women not as self-determining individuals but as objects who must be prodded and starved and drained of personality to fit a template of the man's choosing.
Johann Hari: Promoting Anorexia: An Interview With Kenneth Tong. This Was No Hoax Johann Hari 2011
When she was 80, my grandmother was run over by a speeding drunk driver, and her life as a self-determining human being suddenly stopped.
Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal Johann Hari 2011
She was driven not only by the need to provide for herself and for her family but by her desire to restore to the women of Kabul their belief in themselves as self-determining and self-sufficient.
Nina Sankovitch: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Entrepreneur of Inspiration Nina Sankovitch 2011
Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism 2010
She died today, yet another in a line of our esteemed elders who paved the way for us to be free, self-determining , strong men and women.
Dorothy Height: Washington Won't Be the Same Without You 2010
And there's no better view than from up here to take it all in, an epic dance of fallen heroes, improbable saviors, self-determining puppets rotating in a mandala of futility and hope.
s Over 2010
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