How to Use self-determination in a Sentence
self-determination
noun-
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 -
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 -
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 -
Bella becomes a symbol of self-determination in the end.
— Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
These clearly violate our right to self-determination and freedom of thought.
— Nita Farahany, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
Though some might disagree, the outcome wasn't a surprise to Luxx, who was applauded by RuPaul and her fellow competitors for her self-determination, faith in herself and vocal self-love.
— Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023 -
These albums once again showcased Taylor’s self-determination and echoed the feminist movement that defined this year.
— Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The establishment of Israel was the fulfillment of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination, a beacon of hope and resilience against the backdrop of centuries of persecution.
— Russell Schwartz, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Oregon’s self-serve-gas bill is a small victory for freedom in a state otherwise at war with the concepts of human self-sufficiency and self-determination.
— Jeff Eager, National Review, 11 July 2023 -
The dinner plate and stomach microbiome are treated as the last redoubt of resistance to anything that would impinge on consumer self-determination.
— Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023 -
But brain wearables also pose very real risks to mental privacy, freedom of thought and self-determination.
— Nita A. Farahany, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023 -
But Holmes was prepared to accept the popular will expressed through democracy and self-determination.
— Stefanie Lindquist, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023 -
But scholars and activists say that Native Hawaiians have ultimately been seeking their right to self-determination, or decision-making power on their lands — and that the lack thereof is a root cause of the wildfires.
— Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023 -
So many of those songs were rooted in freedom, individuality, and self-determination — at a time when such concepts felt off-limits to Black female artists.
— Vice President Kamala Harris, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023 -
But in contrast to the rest of the series, Clare-slash-Cheryl’s exhortations on the power of love or radical acceptance or the importance of self-determination have a wistful earnestness that borders on the saccharine.
— Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023 -
It was destined to be not an interim vehicle toward self-determination as planned but a guardian of an unsustainable status quo.
— Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024 -
The berretto frigio identifies you as a supporter of self-determination and freedom.
— Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Doing so can increase your self-understanding, cultivate self-determination and even help steer your heart.
— Georgi Gardiner, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2024 -
America’s social contract was that liberty and self-determination was a more powerful engine of human freedom than vassalage and the divine right of kings.
— TIME, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Some wrestled with its challenging shifts in perspective or its use of excess and repetition to hammer home the relentlessness of living without the right to self-determination.
— Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024 -
My elders taught me to fight for Native American self-determination—for families, women, and children.
— As Told To Monique Wilson, Glamour, 21 Aug. 2023
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