How to Use semiautonomous in a Sentence

semiautonomous

adjective

• Yet one key birthday wish will not be granted: an end to the protests that have rocked semiautonomous Hong Kong for over three months.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
• The Navajo Nation is semiautonomous, with the power to set its own time system.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Ramzan Kadyrov is the leader of the Chechen Republic, which is a semiautonomous part of Russia.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2022
• Stricter laws already apply in the semiautonomous province of Aceh, where a form of sharia law came into effect in 2015.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• The result could be semiautonomous warships that sail with smaller crews, putting fewer in harm’s way.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2018
• In the meantime, the semiautonomous Palestinian government is set to hold its first elections in 15 years in late May.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• For the past three decades, semiautonomous Hong Kong has been the only place on Chinese soil allowed to openly hold a mass memorial.
  — Time, 4 June 2020
• One ethnic group — the Sidama — is seeking to create a 10th semiautonomous region.
  — Simon Marks, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
• The city, a semiautonomous Chinese territory since the British handed back its former colony in 1997, played by its own set of rules.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• One struck a base in Irbil in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• With the wristbands, the semiautonomous Chinese territory is the first place to both track people and place a marker on their bodies.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Under a deal made during the British handover of its former colony, the city was supposed to maintain its semiautonomous rule until 2047.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• The death from the outbreak was the first in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory, and the second outside mainland China.
  — New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• There appeared to be no link, though the two events highlighted the widening rift between mainland China and semiautonomous Hong Kong.
  — Kelvin Chan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• The best cure short of building more roadways and reducing the number of cars that drive on them, traffic experts say, is semiautonomous driving.
  — Jason Daley, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
• China and the semiautonomous city of Hong Kong together received 42% of Japan’s maritime exports last year.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Eyewitnesses said that the fire in northern Iraq’s Sharya camp, in the semiautonomous Kurdish region, ripped through the tents at frightening speed.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
• Days earlier—following the death of the vice president of the semiautonomous island of Zanzibar from Covid-19—Mr.
  — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
• Reports about the number of people killed in the attack in the semiautonomous Puntland region varied widely.
  — Hussein Mohamed and Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• As senior writer Jack Stewart reports, the crash comes amidst a wider debate about the role of humans in semiautonomous vehicles.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
• Much of it comes from Asia, but also Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania.
  — Karen J. Coates, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2018
• If true, that crash would be the second accident this year that has occurred when a Tesla was operating in the semiautonomous driving mode.
  — Peter Holley, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• That’s why, as Marx and many others argued, capitalist classes, their parties, and their states tend to be semiautonomous.
  — Ashley Smith, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• The attack on the Af-Urur military base in the Galgala mountains killed the base commander and his deputy in Puntland, a semiautonomous region that has its own 3,000-strong military force.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
• Under terms of its 1997 handover from Britain, Hong Kong is a semiautonomous territory of China.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
• Gambling revenue in the Chinese semiautonomous city of Macau fell 81% from a year earlier during the 12 months ending in February.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
• Hong Kong, a semiautonomous region of China has seen 105 cases of the disease, and two deaths according to official figures.
  — Mark Hanrahan, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2020
• Civil liberties in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997, have been eroding in recent years.
  — Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• Third Wave provides semiautonomous forklifts that work independently but which are overseen by human controllers who step in when the machines call for help.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
• In the years since, Xi has led China down an all-the-more ruthless, authoritarian path, tightening his grip on power while quashing the political freedoms of semiautonomous Hong Kong.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024