In practice the monasteries are largely autonomous.

Charter schools are funded by taxpayer money, but they are largely autonomous from public regulations, and their management can be either non-profit or for-profit.

The organization's affiliated centers had initially been largely autonomous and self-regulating, but towards the late-1970's were increasingly subject to central management and control.

This was organised along non-hierarchical lines conforming with the principles of direct democracy and broken down into largely autonomous barrios.

Local trade union representants are democratically elected by union members and formally largely autonomous.