The general scheme which they drew out was as follows: Those of the autonomous cities which, having formerly paid tribute to Antiochus, had remained faithful to Rome, they relieved from tribute altogether.
As for the autonomous cities of Asia, they must acquire their freedom by his free grace, not by an injunction from Rome.
But as there are no two opinions about the fact of their having been, of all the autonomous states in Asia, the most strenuous in the cause, I do not think it necessary to set forth their speech in detail.
The Delian League, even in the form in which it was first established, as a confederation of autonomous allies, marks an advance in political conceptions upon the Peloponnesian League.
The workers in a given industry should all be combined in one autonomous unit, and their work should not be subject to any outside control.
Every group sufficiently well-marked to constitute a political entity ought to be autonomousin regard to internal matters, but not in regard to those that directly affect the outside world.
When, however, he writes that "the free development of Athens as an autonomous State would have been restricted by a real federation in which other States had a voice of their own," he partly sets up the difficulty created by Freeman.
Indeed, the fulness of the autonomous life attained by the separate cities was a psychological hindrance to their political union, given the primary geographical sunderance.
Multitude of autonomous communities, of which the members had intercourse as kindred yet critical strangers, emulous of each other, but mixing their stocks, and so developing the potentialities of the species.
An autonomous Kingdom of Poland was, it is true, to be formed, with the Tsar as king, but only out of a small part of Poland.
In 1901 by act of Congress, autonomousgovernment was granted to take effect in May of that year.
Despite continuous Muscovite pressure, the Hetmanate managed to remain autonomous for well over 100 years.
The local tribe was not only an autonomous political, but also a military group.
This is, as Morgan correctly remarks, the prototype of the autonomous American township.
For the simple federation of autonomous tribes was now replaced by the conglomeration of all tribes into one single body.
The northwestern area has declared its independence as the "Republic of Somaliland"; the northeastern region of Puntland is a semi-autonomous state; and the remaining southern portion is riddled with the struggles of rival factions.
Albania must be an autonomous State; that it may live in peace, it must possess its seaboard intact.
In 1999, massive expulsions by Serbs of ethnic Albanians living in the autonomous republic of Kosovo provoked an international response, including the bombing of Serbia and the stationing of NATO and Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo.
There is no escape from the conclusion that these reservations restrict the autonomous power of the Irish Government.
It will be convenient to use the more expressive and generally understood word "State" for the autonomous components of the federation.
We have now to attend only to the creation of autonomous powers by statutes of the Imperial Parliament.
The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the first opportunity of autonomous development.
The Ukrainian delegates renounced all territorial claims against the Monarchy, but demanded from us on the other hand a guarantee as to the autonomous development of their co-nationals in Galicia.
Western Galicia and a part of Silesia would be united to autonomous Poland as reconstituted by the Russian Tsar.
It has always occupied a peculiar autonomousposition of its own; its political, social, and economic conditions are at least a century behind those of the neighbouring provinces, and have given rise to many gross scandals.
It would obviously be necessary to establish a special autonomous administration under a Russian governor.
For eight centuries Croatia has enjoyed an autonomous position under the Holy Crown of St. Stephen; its scope has varied according to the political constellation, but till 1912 its constant tradition had remained unbroken.
What he did ask for was the recognition of the right of the Cretan deputies to sit in the Greek chamber, while Crete itself should remain an autonomous state under the sovereignty of the Sultan.
Surely all these things were on a microscopic scale, recollecting that the people of Queensland had been endowed with autonomous government, and had unfettered control of more than one-fifth of the total area of Australia.
The value of autonomous government is generally appreciated; but the free gift of land made by the Imperial authority to the various self-governing colonies has no parallel in human history.
He is a creative and autonomous being, he has vast capacities for life and enjoyment to which the Church had failed to minister.
