independent

autonomously

adverb
Managers are able to recruit casual staff autonomously, without central control.

Examples of autonomous

autonomous
The state is thus much more autonomous than much of the literature acknowledges.
The central role of semantic principles in the acquisition process is contrary to the claim for a syntactically autonomous acquisition process.
In the longer term, the prospects for the conference are closely tied to the prospects for the autonomous agent ®eld itself.
However, manipulators used for manufacturing are not autonomous agents, even if they have some degree of adaptability.
We introduced the key dynamical concept of an attractor, a pattern of activity which "captures" nearby states of an autonomous system.
Moreover, it is likely that culture is organized as an autonomous system and thus presents similarities with linguistic organization.
While the oral narrative task represented a significant departure from conversational discourse, the students produced their respective narratives under a less "autonomous" condition.
However, showing respect for persons involves much more than supporting autonomous choices about healthcare or research.
Such reasoning may seem insufficient to outweigh the respect for the autonomous choice of patients to partake of an assisted death.
The view ignores how complex a creature the "autonomous" person can be.
First, how can we understand the concept of autonomous choice?
Entering into an agreement is not the only way that independent, autonomous agents can alter their moral positions under the contractarian model.
Accordingly, a bilingual speaker would have autonomous gender systems for each of his/her languages.
Is it, then, implausible to believe in autonomous grammatical systems altogether?
The relatively autonomous art associations and art groups which had earlier exhibited avant-garde art were banned.
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