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1653 R. Baxter Right Method Settled Peace 358 The Nature of the Wils essential Liberty, and its power of self-determining the Divine concourse.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. 32 The Will as a finite dependent Creature, be a Power given and upheld by God of self-determining or morally specifying its own acts.

1776 J. Shebbeare Ess. on Establishment of National Society 6 His physical liberty is founded on what his faculties can perform: and not on what he may spontaneously self determine, and will to have.

1887 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 31 July 14/6 You are to self-determine whether you prefer to love thus unloved, or to break yourself at once forever away from hope of happiness.

1890 New Ideal June 263 He shall, in his freedom, self-determine his every action in accordance with the ends of all rational beings.

1918 Econ. World 15 June 832/1 The Entente nations cannot..without unfaithfulness to their highest duty leave Russia to follow her own course, to ‘self-determine’ her own political and social future.

1988 Educ. Communication & Technol. 36 105/1 ‘Learner-control’ strategies that allow students to self-determine instructional conditions have shown positive results in some studies.

2007 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 98 303 The Court has recognized that implicit to the family integrity interest is the right to self-determine one's own family life.

1918 Round Table Mar. 229 If Ireland is to be allowed to self-determine itself out of the United Kingdom why should not Ulster self-determine itself out of Ireland?

1918 Public 28 Sept. 1243/1 Nobody will ever be able to indicate a directing principle justifying discrimination between those sections of humankind that have the ‘right to self-determine’ and those that have not.

1924 Glasgow Herald 24 May 4 He ruled a people who had self-determined themselves out of our control.

1998 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 21 Mar. 668/2 Of course, individuals should be encouraged to self-determine themselves.

2003 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Dec. 28/1 Johnson is overlooking those individuals with severe cognitive disabilities who are unable to ‘self-determine’ and ‘self-advocate’.

2013 B. Balayev Right to Self-determination in S. Caucasus iii. 114 All people and nationalities living compactly have self-determined under different national statehoods.