The agreements include internal rules that guarantee functional autonomy to achieve the Institute's objectives.

Read more on UNESCO-IHE's functional autonomy.

Transparency in administration, proper delegation of authority and functional autonomy, emphasis on quality teaching and research is all that he believes in.

The CBI has reportedly demanded financial and functional autonomy, which includes a special statutory mechanism for the removal of the CBI director.

Many obsessive and compulsive acts and thoughts might be manifestations of functional autonomy.

At a more theoretical level this characterization has some affinities with Gouldner's concept of 'functional autonomy':

The General Auditing Office of the Nation is a technical advisory body of Congress with functional autonomy.

However, the present study also sees industrial relations variables as having a certain 'functional autonomy'(Shalev 1980: 29).

Two-thirds of an octopus's neurons are found in the nerve cords of its arms, which have limited functional autonomy.

The Commission is a public institution that enjoys judicial, organizational and functional autonomy from the federal government.