How to Use self-governance in a Sentence

self-governance

noun
  • This is why self-governance matters so much.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Just who would run Gaza during a transition to self-governance is not yet clear.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2025
  • This level of self-governance proves necessary.
    — Pieter Danhieux, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Critics have said the law takes away self-governance in Jackson and Hinds County.
    — USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • The basis of any security is firstly a mindset of self-governance.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Leaving behind any trace of pop, Guzmán places all bets on her core sound, punk rock, and delivers hard-hitting lyrics about self-governance.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That line from reporting to lawmaking is the central artery of democratic self-governance.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025
  • For any kind of future agreement, if there is to be one, there has to be clarity that the Palestinian public does not just want self-governance.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Hybrid models, like on Reddit, mix centralized and self-governance.
    — Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Local self-governance may, of course, be oppressive or exclusionary.
    — Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
  • Denmark ruled Greenland as a colony until 1953, when the island achieved greater powers of self-governance.
    — Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In Oaxaca, much land is communally owned and managed through local systems of self-governance.
    — Claudia Rosel, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • Being a gracious loser is crucial to maintaining democracy and self-governance.
    — New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Being a gracious loser is crucial to maintaining democracy and self-governance.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s show of force is an imposition on a citizenry already aware that its democratic self-governance is tenuous.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Journalism can give you the information necessary for self-governance.
    — Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Certain core themes — about nature’s self-governance, for instance, or the author’s quest for fame — echo across these works in ways that demonstrate her playful approach to genre and her audience.
    — Anne M. Thell, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • This country was founded by people who wanted political and religious freedom and self-governance.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • Broadly, the Security Council aimed at the two main prongs of security and self-governance.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Their choice—their courage and sacrifice—started a revolution of liberty and self-governance unimagined in world history.
    — David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • On a smaller scale, total self-governance – echoing early online spaces – could be key for communities that serve specific subsets of users.
    — Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
  • American self-governance depends not on unity, but rather productive disagreement.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Leaders demonstrating self-governance in their health inspire their teams and build stakeholder trust through visible durability.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • In fact, only 8% of consumers have full trust in the organizations that manage their identity data, ushering in a new era of data self-governance.
    — Peter Barker, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The governor is trying to strip the company of its self-governance, and has proposed that a prison or a competing theme park be built near Walt Disney World.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Our culture thrives on a framework of behavior grounded in self-governance through a growth mindset, responsibility and transparency.
    — Mikhail Shneyder, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Trump has repeatedly threatened to strip the district’s government of its home rule, which allows the federal district to maintain limited self-governance.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Policing grew out of these dominant capitalist dynamics, rather than some idealized vision of self-governance or a notion of security for all.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • Only a true American, the Founders believed, had the right to participate in American self-governance.
    — Time, 15 Aug. 2023

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