How to Use self-determination in a Sentence

self-determination

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  • That right to self-determination and to amend or make mistakes is absent in Iran.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • These guys are not just restricting the rights, self-determination to bear a child for a young woman.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But for both men, the pursuit of romantic love proves secondary to the challenge of self-determination.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • The holiday is all about honoring Black self-determination and dreams, so for me, food entrepreneurs are a great place to start.
    — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 19 June 2023
  • People feel a strong need for freedom and self-determination right now.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The United States should recognize the Palestinians as a people with the right to self-determination.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Once you’re centered on this point, the only issue left is how to present to others your commitment to self-determination.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But those who denied Jews had the right to self-determination and freedom in their homeland were antisemitic, according to the ADL.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 20 June 2024
  • Freedom, to me, is the right of self-determination and human dignity.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2024
  • His latest song trades in hope and self-determination, while placing the focus on his voice, as smooth yet gritty and world-weary as the dirt and rocks embedded on a well-trod backroad.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • Aries is the first spark — the purest expression of lifeforce, urgency, and self-determination.
    — Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Bella becomes a symbol of self-determination in the end.
    — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • For many, that equates to the right of the Jewish people to have their own state and self-determination in an ancestral homeland after centuries of oppression and ostracism in much of the world.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
  • But now, under the self-determination act, name and gender changes will be processed within three months of filing the self-disclosure form.
    — Anna Gordon, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In fact, they can both be read as coming-out and self-determination anthems on the merits and strength of their own lyrics and in-universe interpretation.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The best way to achieve this is still a two-state solution based on self-determination, sovereignty, and security for both peoples.
    — Mary Robinson, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination.
    — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But Catholic nationalists wanted self-determination, and the result was the conflict known as the Troubles.
    — Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Hezbollah continues to bill itself as a group fighting for Lebanon's right to self-determination.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • These clearly violate our right to self-determination and freedom of thought.
    — Nita Farahany, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • For Hsiao and all of Taiwan, the impetus is to win the argument regarding the island’s right to self-determination in the court of global opinion to help stave off any potential conflict.
    — Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • Across the world, protesters demanding an end to Israel’s war in Gaza have worn the black-and-white keffiyeh headscarf, a symbol of Palestinian self-determination.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The pair explain the significance of the watermelon: a symbol of both Black and Palestinian self-determination, a crop grown by farmers there and in the American South by slaves.
    — Michael Love Michael, Them, 19 July 2024
  • Both Egypt and Jordan have rejected such an idea in the past for fear of being seen as interfering in Palestinian self-determination.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • Perhaps the same reflection is apt here: If the people choose a president hobbled by criminal sanctions, that is a form of self-determination too.
    — Stefanie Lindquist, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Trying to remove the people’s power of self-determination is the fastest way to lose popularity.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • For an agreement that would enable self-determination, freedom of movement, fair land ownership for the people.
    — Laurel Dalrymple, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Your book The Battle for Your Brain defines cognitive liberty as the rights to mental privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The independence of Cyprus was among his precious causes, alongside self-determination for the Kurds and the Palestinians—who had long been victims of occupation and imperialist power games.
    — Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • For its part, Greenland has asserted its right to self-determination, and most Greenlanders favor independence from Denmark.
    — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 28 Jan. 2025

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