notion of autonomy

collocation in English

meaningsofnotionandautonomy

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notion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us
/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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autonomy
noun[U]
uk
/ɔːˈtɒn.ə.mi/us
/ɑːˈtɑː.nə.mi/
the right of an organization, country, or region to be independent and ...
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(Definition ofnotionandautonomyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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An example of respect for persons versus a positivenotionofautonomyis the airline pilot.
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I think that the argument is mistaken, however, in relating this last claim to thenotionofautonomy.
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What he means by individuality is probably best captured for us now by thenotionofautonomy.
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Yet feminist scholars have rightly been hesitant to do away with thenotionofautonomyaltogether.
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This paper investigates thenotionofautonomyin relation to distance language learning, and examines the skills and strategies needed by the learners in order to achieve successful outcomes.
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Many of these ethical objections, rather surprisingly, appealed to notions of autonomy.
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Tronto argues that current individualistic notions of autonomy as independence places autonomy and dependence at either end of a continuum.
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Nineteenth-century autobiography, as the preeminent exemplar of an individualist ideology that privileged individual self-possession over the communal, records most graphically the masculine libidinal investment in notions of autonomy.
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Unbelievable poverty, inter-clan fighting and ethnic tensions, compounded by corruption at all levels in regions entertaining vague notions of autonomy and partition are its overriding features.
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