Noun
government of a political unit by its own people
Source: WordNetself rule
Never in the history of the world has an alien ruler granted self-rule to a people on a silver platter. Kwame Nkrumah
The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule. Salvador Allende
Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, has refused to engage politically with the Trump administration. Source: Internet
After Sunday’s self-rule announcement, they are unlikely to get it. Source: Internet
A hard-won lesson of Western history is that genuine democratic self-rule begins at the hearth of the monogamous family." Source: Internet
A wave of sub-Saharan African countries became independent in the 1960s, 17 achieving self-rule from colonial Belgium, Britain and France in 1960 alone. Source: Internet