Example Sentences

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If approved, the constitution would make Chile “plurinational,” with at least 11 Indigenous groups, representing more than 2 million people or nearly 13% of the population, recognized as autonomous communities governing their territories.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2022

But, equally, what keeps them from succumbing to the inevitability of that outcome is also written into Brazil’s history: their faith in the unbreakable bonds of autonomous communities.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2019

Photograph: Reuters Today the Zapatistas have largely withdrawn to their autonomous communities though they can still mobilize their masses.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2016

English institutions are studied in New Zealand and in Australia, among autonomous communities of Britons.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

They were to be formed into autonomous communities of their own, under their own chiefs and owning their own land and cattle.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher