Example sentences for: self-determination

How can you use “self-determination” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Because I'm worth it") were seminal declarations of female self-determination.

  • The manifesto stressed the concept of ethnic nationalism and self-determination, and of the need for Chicanos to control their own communities, schools, and political structures.

  • In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald Friday welcomed the U.N.-brokered agreement on self-determination for the people of East Timor but expressed doubts about the policing of next August's referendum by the Indonesian army, "which invaded East Timor, forcibly annexed the territory, and has maintained a policy of brutal pacification" there.

  • In an analysis of Blair's "new internationalism" on its editorial page, Le Monde of Paris described it Friday as "a kind of humanitarian Wilsonism that wouldn't be limited to the right of peoples to self-determination that Woodrow Wilson wanted to impose on the defeated European empires after World War I ; it defends the rights of man, the rights of minorities, and cultural and religious freedoms."

  • Nationalism never completely disappeared, however, and in the latter part of the century there has been a concerted (though peaceful) effort to gain self-determination for Scotland.


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