And these process boundaries are regarded as sort of autonomous units by things like firewalls.

We were an autonomous unit, left well alone by the military hierarchy out there.

When schools are run as individual, autonomous units, they can make very bad, and very corrupt, decisions.

The Banovinas are at the same time administrative and autonomous units.

It operated as an independent, autonomous unit for much of its existence.

Freeman will operate as an autonomous unit and retain its name.

Society, in general, addresses the fact that an individual has rather limited means as an autonomous unit.

The autonomous local units help support 42,000 health and social service agencies.

Decentralization into autonomous units will surely be even more critical than it is now.

Eastern's shuttle operations will become an autonomous unit within the airline company.