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self-rule

noun

The PKK has been fighting for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984 in a war that has cost more than 40,000 lives.

Like many self-rule foes, Hussein dismisses plans for a regional government as a PYD bid to establish a political monopoly.

All they ask for is Turkish suzerainty over Arabia which would guarantee complete self-rule for the Arabs.

He had a profound sense of justice, a love of liberty, and an unfaltering belief in the capacity of the human race for self-rule.

Born to obey, he lived in contented submission, without the wish or the capacity for self-rule.

They are the supposed defenders of the greatest privilege given to the American citizen;—that of self rule.

I am individually working for the self-rule pictured therein.

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