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• s  (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
  an autonomous judiciary
• s  existing as an independent entity
  the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies
• s  (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

• There are questions being asked about the autonomous status of the so-called deemed universities.
• But the proposal to turn Basra into an autonomous region is comes not from the Supreme Council, but rather from a coalition of Shi'ite independents and the small Fadila Party .
• Two autonomous puppet states carved from Chinese territory and under the tutelage of Japan are Manchukuo, and the more recent "Mongokuo" in outer Chahar Province (PTI, March.

• independent
• self-governing
• sovereign
• self-directed
• self-reliant

News & Articles

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• Feds Say Autonomous Cars Must Be Regulated - But They Have Clue How To Even Approach It
  With everyone from Audi to Google to Volvo developing autonomous vehicles, the federal government is cautiously getting behind the wheel to regulate how self-driving cars should be operated and legislated.
  June 12, 2013 - Auto Spies
• Feds Say Autonomous Must Be Regulated - But They Have Clue How To Even Approach It
  With everyone from Audi to Google to Volvo developing autonomous vehicles, the federal government is cautiously getting behind the wheel to regulate how self-driving cars should be operated and legislated.
  June 12, 2013 - Auto Spies
• Autonomous AI cars bring racing video game to life at WWDC
  Anki Drive is a racing video game brought to life with autonomous AI cars, but the company says this is just the start.
  June 10, 2013 - ExtremeTech

Quotes

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• Alexander Solzhenitsyn in International Herald Tribune
  Any ancient deeply rooted autonomous culture, especially if it is spread on a wide part of the earth's surface, constitutes an autonomous world, full of riddles and surprises to Western thinking,Solzhenitsyn said in his speech. "For one...
• Richard Shelby in New York Times
  Shelby said putting an autonomous consumer finance regulator within the Fed would be like "moving the Department of Agriculture to the Pentagon and housing it over there and yet be autonomous." "I don't see why that accomplishes much."
• Jerry Brown in FOXNews
  The federal receivership has become its own autonomous government operating outside the normal checks and balances of state and federal law,Brown said in a statement. "Already, California is spending almost $14,000 per inmate for health...