Haiti is the second oldest autonomous state in the Western Hemisphere.

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Now England is awash with apparently autonomous state schools.

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And while not wholly independent from Spanish state law, they are still considered autonomous.

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The robot combines the latest in autonomous navigation and mobility technologies developed by iRobot with state-of-the-art telemedicine and electronic health record integration developed by InTouch Health.

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The State Grid Corporation of China covers 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, while the China Southern Power Grid Co.

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Diplomacy arises out of the fundamental character of the nation-state system, with its basic assumption that nation-states are autonomous, often divergent in their interests and unequal in their power.

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Koenig, now a science advisor on the GROVER Project, asked Hans-Peter Marshall, a glaciologist at Boise State University to bring in his expertise in small, low-power, autonomous radars that could be mounted on GROVER.

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Luis Pacheco-Cobos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his colleagues discovered this by following mushroom gatherers from a village in the state of Tlaxcala for two rainy seasons.

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According to Agence France Presse, LVMH has joined forces with state-owned company Ningxia Nongken to plant a 163-acre vineyard in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwestern China.

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