You're the most autonomous human being I've ever seen.

In the Buggers' experience, autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves.

The vulpine Evtushenko, although an accomplished technician and a past mistress of Lock's supercharged style, is never an autonomous being, but is always manipulated, shaped and turned by men.

The love between man and wife, therefore, apparently presupposes man and wife treating one another as equal, autonomous beings.

People ought to treat one another as people, as autonomous beings, in love-making, as elsewhere.

The degree to which adolescents are perceived as autonomous beings varies greatly by culture, as do the behaviors that represent this emerging autonomy.

Still less did she suspect that in the end, they might all be necessary, how interdependent these seemingly autonomous beings were.

To perfect one's natural, innate potential was at the same time to realize one's self as an autonomous being.

The women in Ms. Gorris's film coexist as autonomous beings.

More generally, if living things didn't work actively to prevent it, they would eventually merge into their surroundings, and cease to exist as autonomous beings.