The tendency toward departmental autonomyin large businesses is also very marked.
Economic federation or federalism, with local groups enjoying local autonomy in all local matters, and only so much centralized control as is necessary for the unified direction of the entire enterprise.
Experience points to the system of local autonomy in local matters and to the central control of general matters as the most workable in a complex society.
Throughout this enlarging series of federations the principle of local autonomy will be maintained in all of its rigor, and no matter will be referred to a federation that can be handled by a local group.
Even in the days of the Serb Kings Dulcigno had kept its autonomy and at one time coined its own money.
Simitch, diplomatic agent at Sofia, insisted that under such an autonomy Bulgarian annexation was concealed and should that take place, the Serbs would fight till either Serbia or Bulgaria was destroyed.
Pashitch, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared that such an autonomywould injure Serbia and be all in favour of Bulgaria.
Premi Dochi's successful scheme for the restoration to Mirdita of Prenk Bib Doda was a masterpiece, which might have well led to the autonomy of Albania.
At Valona, where our journey ended, we met a number of refugees from Chameria, splendid mountain men, who had been till now under local autonomy with their own old Albanian law.
The United States, with the local autonomy and decentralization which characterize its government, still forms the type of the Protestant state.
The struggle for autonomy and the inviolability of slavery, on the part of the South, was ended, and fate had decided against them.
That it was the part of honorable men fairly and honestly to carry out and give effect to all the conditions, expressed and implied, on which power, representation, and autonomy were restored to the recently rebellious States.
There was really no central government; only an autonomy of States like the ancient Grecian republics, and the lesser States were jealous of the greater.
Had each of those illustrious men persisted in his own views, we should have had only an autonomy of States instead of the glorious Union, which in spite of storms stands unshaken to-day.
They could take the path to isolation, to autonomy and self-sufficiency.
By coordinating their information several administrative areas could reconcile autonomy of decision with cooperation.
Apply Federalism to Ireland and you immediately provoke demands for autonomy in other parts of the United Kingdom, and for constitutional changes in other parts of the British Empire.
Home Rulers think otherwise: they prefer the local autonomy of Victoria to a share in the United Kingdom.
The principle of autonomy was suspected at Athens and Belgrade as calculated to ensure Bulgarian predominance and to delay or preclude the ultimate partition of the country.
But it was the old cry of the "autonomy of the Hellenes," raised by Smyrna and Lampsacus, which ultimately brought Antiochus III.
Blanco swore in these Ministers, addressed them with an exhortation to support autonomy and to suppress the revolution, and gave them as the watchword of their administration "Long live Cuba, forever Spanish!
The president of the party, the Cuban-born Marquis de Apezteguia, was indeed in favor of giving autonomy a trial.
They had no thought of accepting or even considering mere autonomy under Spanish sovereignty, or any promises of reforms in the insular government.
That made the thing quite unacceptable to all Cubans whose aim was the independence of the island or even genuine autonomy and home rule.
It was soon evident that the grant of autonomy had come too late.
This was simply an invitation to the insurgents to submit, in which case Spain would consider what degree of autonomy was needed or practicable.
Thus not only will the financial problem be solved but district autonomy development will follow local needs.
The basic spirit of this draft is to arouse and mobilize the masses, to strengthen local organization and hasten district autonomy enterprises so that the cornerstone of the revolution and national reconstruction may be laid.
Henceforth, all the hsien and lower district government units in the autonomy system should observe this draft as the basis.
The fluid autonomy of innumerable groups slows down the engines of formal power.
In this way, education and autonomy may be closely affiliated with each other.
The province is becoming modernized by a great deal of commerce and development; it is likely that this vestigial autonomy will fade away unnoticed.
Sun Yat-sen once said to Judge Linebarger, "China is a land of autonomy from the smallest village upward.
It is hoped that all comrades of our Party and our fellow-countrymen should strive with strong determination for nation-wide enforcement of these district autonomy measures.
A Kuomintang leader of long standing, he followed, in conjunction with the leaders in Kwangtung (Canton), a policy of de facto autonomy down to the very outbreak of war.
Potentialities in the field of local autonomyare enhanced by the fact that the National Government has competitors.
But the reasonableness of a requirement by Spain of unconditional surrender on the part of the insurgent Cubans before their autonomy is conceded is not altogether apparent.
Its purpose is neither to stifle the flame of a sane and intelligent patriotism in men’s hearts, nor to abolish the system of national autonomy so essential if the evils of excessive centralization are to be avoided.
She kept a practical autonomy longer than any other of the league towns with the exception of Tibur, but she has a much more varied history than Tibur.
The aim of the contending nationalities in Austria-Hungary at the present time seems to be a federation, like that of Switzerland, based upon the autonomy of the different races composing the empire.
Her autonomy was taken from her; her smallest legislative act was the act of a stranger; in fine, every mark of political slavery was put upon her.
The sovereignty of the people can only exist through the most complete autonomy of individuals and of groups.
Anarchy is the harmonious functioning of all autonomy resolved in the complete equalisation of all human conditions.
The suggestion is absurd: its chief excuse is the desire to defend the autonomy of the sciences of life, about which we have a word to say later on.
But these unions, at all events in historic times, were mainly concerned with religion, and the authority of the councils did not seriously affect the autonomy of the individual states.
The farther we pass east from America the more do we see mission autonomy yield to the control of the home society; and the independence of the missionary lost in the absoluteness of mission supervision.
It is an interesting fact, in the study of the missions of India, that the American Missions, on the whole, represent the largest degree, both of mission autonomy and of missionary individualism.
