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  • n  government of a political unit by its own people

  • Bosnian Serbs, on the other hand, fear that Silajdzic wants to end their self-rule and create a centralized, Muslim-dominated Bosnia.
  • The PA, which was created in 1994 as an interim body for Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories as a prelude to statehood, is now in shambles.
  • Mindful of a 1929 pogrom against Jewish Hebronites, the settlers fear that Palestinian self-rule will lead to their slaughter.
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  • Ronald Reagan in renewamerica.us
    President Reagan said, "We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of...
  • Manmohan Singh in Thaindian.com (blog)
    Autonomy and self-rule is also possible if the Congress is brought back to power by you in Jammu and Kashmir,Manmohan Singh told the people.
  • Mehbooba Mufti in Hindu
    We had gone into the recent elections with our agenda for dialogue, self-rule, reduction of troops and scrapping of special powers in view of the vastly improved ground situation in the state,Mehbooba said.

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