He was entitled to act on his own initiative.

他们就是缺乏把事情安排得井然有序的主动性。

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To Josh, checking with his wife would mean he was not free to act on his own.

对乔希来说，征求妻子的意见意味着他不能自由行动。

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Person appointed by law to act on behalf of someone(such as a child) who cannot act on his own behalf.

法院指定的代表一个不能代表自己行为的某人（如儿童） 的人。

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And he realized that here was an opportunity to act on his own imaginings through film.

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They recognize the areas within which the individual is sovereign, entitled to act on his own judgment, free from interference by his fellow man and by the state.

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"If the individual decides to take the training individually and then gets motivated or does an act on his own, you cannot level that as a collective thing from Pakistan, or say that any sort of help is being given to them, " he said.

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