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:

  • This movement has led to calls for self-determination and increased native sovereignty, even full independence as a new nation for the estimated 250,000 people of Hawaiian ancestry.

  • According to Mark Shields (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ), Clinton's statements effectively "deny self-determination" to 21 million people.

  • After the war, the Allies, following Wilsonian ideals of self-determination, straightened up Europe into tidy nation-states.

  • This ancient history forms the basis of demands for self-determination on the part of the long-suffering Albanian Kosovars.

  • There may be debate about which groups of people constitute nations entitled to self-determination and representation in the international community, but the principle seems to be accepted by all.


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