How to Use self-determination in a Sentence

self-determination

noun

• There is a part of me that still sees this act of self-determination as a moral failing.
  — Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
• That right to self-determination and to amend or make mistakes is absent in Iran.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• Some of us have a vision for our lives but lack self-determination due to fear, trauma, or self-doubt.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Feb. 2025
• These guys are not just restricting the rights, self-determination to bear a child for a young woman.
  — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2024
• The right to self-determination can become the right to self-destruction.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• This issue is not only about the safety and health of our water, but also the right to self-determination.
  — Mel Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2025
• But for both men, the pursuit of romantic love proves secondary to the challenge of self-determination.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• The holiday is all about honoring Black self-determination and dreams, so for me, food entrepreneurs are a great place to start.
  — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 19 June 2023
• People feel a strong need for freedom and self-determination right now.
  — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• The United States should recognize the Palestinians as a people with the right to self-determination.
  — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
• The result has been a denial of basic health care to people most in need of it, and a denial of control, dignity and self-determination.
  — Don Aptekar, Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2025
• Once you’re centered on this point, the only issue left is how to present to others your commitment to self-determination.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
• But those who denied Jews had the right to self-determination and freedom in their homeland were antisemitic, according to the ADL.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 20 June 2024
• Freedom, to me, is the right of self-determination and human dignity.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2024
• His latest song trades in hope and self-determination, while placing the focus on his voice, as smooth yet gritty and world-weary as the dirt and rocks embedded on a well-trod backroad.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 May 2024
• Aries is the first spark — the purest expression of lifeforce, urgency, and self-determination.
  — Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
• Bella becomes a symbol of self-determination in the end.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• For many, that equates to the right of the Jewish people to have their own state and self-determination in an ancestral homeland after centuries of oppression and ostracism in much of the world.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
• But now, under the self-determination act, name and gender changes will be processed within three months of filing the self-disclosure form.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
• One of those feelings is the desire for self-determination — more so, even, than a desire to be surrounded by friends — paving the way for a new story in the series’ next inevitable season.
  — Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 15 May 2025
• In fact, they can both be read as coming-out and self-determination anthems on the merits and strength of their own lyrics and in-universe interpretation.
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Jan. 2025
• As Europe and the rest of the world looked away, the costs of failing to secure a durable peace in which both Israelis and Palestinians enjoy the right to self-determination became exorbitant.
  — Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
• The best way to achieve this is still a two-state solution based on self-determination, sovereignty, and security for both peoples.
  — Mary Robinson, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
• Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination.
  — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• But Catholic nationalists wanted self-determination, and the result was the conflict known as the Troubles.
  — Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• The legacy of Susan and Mindy through this film, their dauntless self-determination and inspired leap of faith continues to burn brightly as a beacon of intent and purpose.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025
• Hezbollah continues to bill itself as a group fighting for Lebanon's right to self-determination.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
• The freed choose mortal struggle through self-determination, and in boardrooms, classrooms, and ballot boxes, that same choice presents itself.
  — Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
• Rutte also said Russia must acknowledge Ukraine's right to self-determination.
  — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2025
• Even theories of self-determination reinforce this point.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025