assert autonomy
Frequency: 5.03.0 per million words
To declare or insist on one's autonomy.
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- As a teenager, it's natural to want to assert your autonomy and make your own decisions.
- The province is trying to assert its political autonomy from the central government.
- The creative team successfully asserted its autonomy on the new project.
- She felt the need to assert her personal autonomy after the breakup.
- The subsidiary company is beginning to assert its financial autonomy.
- Historically, many colonies fought to assert their autonomy and become independent nations.
- An important part of patient care is allowing individuals to assert their autonomy in medical choices.
- The local council will assert its autonomy on planning decisions.
- Artists must often assert their creative autonomy against commercial pressures.
- If we don't give the department more freedom, they will eventually assert their autonomy in other ways.