They are self-determining, big-hearted and powerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Leland: What's Your Number? Understanding Your Enneagram Type] Reference

It involves a self-determining power to will and to act.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

To this self-determining activity Eucken has given the name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

A moral personality is a self-conscious, self-determining being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

We recognize them as self-determining, self-governing, and separate governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Fearing: 4th Congressional District deserves better representation] Reference

(Judea as a coherent self-determining state, lasted less than two hundred years).    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Netanyahu Apologizes For Settlements News, Despite Recently Appearing With Pro-Settlement Cleric Hagee] Reference

They cannot actualise their potential to become self-conscious and self-determining beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Hill Green] Reference

The current struggle in the streets of Tehran is important because Iran is 'self-determining'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

It is such a life that can truly be self-determining as a “creative element of a creative world.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kyoto School] Reference

Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism] Reference

In order to have that ability the will must not only be “free” but autonomous and self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Free will," discipline, nirvana, and why Calvin was wrong] Reference

I know we all want to be individuals and self-determining and such, but there is a wisdom in the crowds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Authors and the Paradox of Desktop Publishing] Reference

Life is more explicitly rational than mere physical matter because it is more explicitly self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel's Aesthetics] Reference

An example of a commonly asserted group right is the right of a nation or a people to be self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Rights] Reference

Hegel argues in his speculative logic that being is to be understood as self-determining reason or “Idea”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel's Aesthetics] Reference

"It alone contains the self-determining Truth of the Divine Consciousness that is necessary for a Truth-creation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

The Canadian identity has also broadened and deepened into a rich mosaic of determined and self-determining people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economy Enters a New Decade] Reference

Suppose, for example, that one person in a nation had, uniquely, a right that that nation should be self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Rights] Reference

The will is thus self-determining, rather than determined by its end, and so Scotus affirms self-motion in psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Causation] Reference

And the more likely the agent is under the sway of her deformed desires, the less likely she will be self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Moral Psychology] Reference

Individuality and self-determination can only be achieved in organic communion with other self-determining individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis]] Reference

Coleridge perceived what every thinking mind has perceived -- the difficulty of believing in two self-determining powers, viz.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference

Reason, or the Idea, comes to be fully self-determining and rational, therefore, when it takes the form of self-conscious spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel's Aesthetics] Reference

After slavery ended, enormous tension and conflict emerged between black women and men as folks struggled to be self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over My Shoulder #40: bell hooks on plantation patriarchy, black feminism, and black men’s relationship to masculinity. From We Real Cool.] Reference

This flagship programme provides people with skills and has turned many into self-determining entrepreneurs who are now self employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minister of Arts & Culture Z. Pallo Jordan, Budget Vote Speech, Room E249, Parliament, Cape Town] Reference

He is, as Charles Hoffman has noted, ` Conan the Existentialist ': "The consummate self-determining man, alone in a hostile universe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

She died today, yet another in a line of our esteemed elders who paved the way for us to be free, self-determining, strong men and women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Height: Washington Won't Be the Same Without You] Reference

When she was 80, my grandmother was run over by a speeding drunk driver, and her life as a self-determining human being suddenly stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal] Reference

Yet on the road to this self-determining life, Ayaan turned first to its polar opposite: the very Islamic fundamentalism that now wants to kill her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: The Refugee Who Rocked Islam: an Exclusive Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali] Reference

What they demand are new political leaders who will support and encourage the self-determining initiatives of grassroots organizers and neighborhoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Kurashige: Meet Hansen Clarke: The Dems' Rising Star From Detroit] Reference

It ignores that which is highest and best in human nature -- man's freedom and power of self-organization and self-determining influence in the masses of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

We fall back, therefore, upon the principle which must be postulated in the whole discussion -- the unity and self-determining activity of the self-conscious mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Taking post-WWII as an example, would the occupying forces have withdrawn if Germany had refused to recognise, say, France, as an independant, self-determining nation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It has no intelligence, nor has it self-determining power, nor is it vital, nor has it energy, it has not in itself the force to overcome its inertia, the energy must be applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

Here he is abundantly like himself, rich in self-determining phrases which emerge from a Hinterland of wild surmise, and tower aloft in peaks of Himalayan majesty like Haramokh or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919] Reference

The same self-determining argument can be made by covert terrorists or covert actions by adversarial governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

He is automatic in virtue of that hidden spring of reflex action, all the time having the feeling that he is self-determining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference