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Example sentences for "local self"

  • It was not to be a union based upon the idea of the sacredness of local self-government, but it was a union to be achieved, as far as possible, at the expense of local self-government.

  • But, worse than all, the town-meeting system of local self-government was ruthlessly swept away.

  • What is the fundamental significance of local self-government?

  • Elsewhere in New England, too, local self- government was a spontaneous growth.

  • What is the relation of Public Opinion to local self-government?

  • The new Constitution created a system of Federal government which retains the advantages of local self-government for the states, but at the same time secures the strength which results from union.

  • The Confederates were defending their inherited right of local self-government and the Federal Constitution that secured it.

  • Now when any question of local self-government is discussed, and we are apt to ignore its importance; it does not catch our imagination; we do not attach that interest to it which the question deserves.

  • The first method is the institution of Local Self-Government.

  • Having said what the goal is, His Excellency proceeds to say that the first road to that goal is in the domain of local self-government, village, rural, town or municipal.

  • The confederacy was a union of Five Tribes, composed of common gentes, under one government on the basis of equality; each Tribe remaining independent in all matters pertaining to local self-government.

  • Each tribe was independent in whatever related to local self-government; but the three were externally one people in whatever related to aggression or defense.

  • Effect of the change on the principle of local self-government.

  • Advocates of the old order see in the change a breaking down of the principle of local self-government.

  • They assert that the instinct for local self-government remains as strong as it ever was, and instance the resentment of New York City over interference from Albany.

  • While they both stood for a strong National Government, neither of them contemplated any encroachment by that government on the principle of local self-government in local matters or the police power of the states.

  • For purposes of local self-government, and to secure its educational and political blessings, the States are of unquestioned value.

  • Local self-government, which is the pride of our institutions, will be reconciled with the national supremacy in maintenance of human rights, and the two together will constitute the elemental principles of the Republic.

  • They supply the machinery of local self-government for the convenience of life, while they ward off the attempts of an absorbing imperialism.

  • They ridiculed the idea of introducing any measure of local self-government in India, and predicted that that must be the beginning of the end.

  • A full measure of local self-government should be immediately granted.

  • This instance, in which the working Constitution violated the spirit of the written Constitution, is interesting as evidence of the flexity of the American Constitution and of the strength of the spirit of local self-government.

  • Though unity has up to now been preserved, the lack of local self-government has produced discords always more or less active.

  • While it makes for strength, it permits and encourages individual freedom and local self-government, essentials to Pan-Angle existence.

  • For forty years, in fourteen separate states like our own, the people of Argentina have preserved the sacred right of local self-government.

  • These people desired to take their states out of the Union, not for the sake of slavery, but for the sake of that right of local self-government which they regarded as the fundamental condition of liberty among men.

  • Continuance of peace in Europe has assisted the growth of local self-government in France, and also in Germany.

  • Among other subjects of local self-government are the roads, bridges, streets, and sewers.

  • The right of local self-government was given to the people of these cities and a few others in 1840; but even this small and tardy justice provoked an English bishop to threaten that it would call down vengeance from God.

  • While having a Christian governor, and enjoying the rights of local self-government, it was to remain under "the direct political and military authority of the Sultan, under conditions of administrative autonomy.

  • A Legislative Assembly was proposed to be established in Ireland with power to make all laws necessary for the good government of Ireland--in other words, invested with the same powers of local self-government as a colonial Assembly.

  • And thus, by the spring of 1885, many of us were prepared for a large scheme of local self-government in Ireland, including a central legislative body in Dublin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "local self" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being turned; bill horn; economic growth; flesh foods; for even; full work; honest face; local authorities; local autonomy; local circle; local circles; local colour; local government; local habitation; local names; local option; local origin; local preacher; local rates; local self; local treatment; locally known; poor soul; rare bird; white settlement; wooden horse