Governing councils in each district maintain a limited number of autonomous decision-making powers, and are reelected every 5 years.

Occasional kidnappings reinforce the tribal assertions of autonomous power in their regions.

The corregidores were introduced in the mid-16th century to replace the encomiendas, which had become a source of autonomous power for the settlers.

We believe in the sanctity of human life, not the autonomous power to take someone else's life.

The first practical step towards reducing the potential threat of the autonomous power of the political organizations was, in fact, military in nature.

Territories, on the other hand, are given their autonomous powers by the federal government through legislation.

Kurdish leaders say they want to retain broad autonomous powers in the region, including the use of the pesh merga.

We must give Tibet more autonomous power than other minority regions.

Hong Kong triads have established themselves as autonomous powers in much of Asia.

As such, the autonomous powers of the state originate from its status as a bounded place.