Definition of self-ruling in US English:
 self-ruling
adjectiveˌselfˈro͞oliNGˌsɛlfˈrulɪŋ
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  The executive committee has been incorporated into the working committee in a bid to speed up the process of the tribe regaining its self-ruling status.
 -  Provinces will be permitted to band together to form self-ruling regions if a third of provincial legislators request it and the move is backed by local referendums.
 -  They should coincide with, i.e. cover the same people as, political communities and they should be self-ruling.
 -  As a free, self-ruling democratic people, it is not only our right but our responsibility to vigorously and openly debate the issues.
 -  A group of squatters overtook an abandoned army base and created a self-ruling micro-nation in the heart of Copenhagen.
 -  Part of the jaw-dropping documentary was filmed in breathtaking Greenland - the largest island in the world, and a self-ruling overseas territory of Denmark.
 -  It has been self-ruling since a 2005 peace deal but the former rebels have struggled to create efficient institutions and tackle rampant corruption.
 -  As in the restive south and east of Afghanistan, the agencies are populated by self-ruling Pashtun tribes for whom war has been a way of life for centuries.
 -  Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua, was briefly self-ruling from December 1, 1961 until December 18, 1961, when Indonesia invaded and evantually annexed it.