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To self-select; to choose for oneself, rather than having another choose for one.
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In the fundamental part he therefore argues: “Truly good works are not self-elected works of monastic or any other holiness, but such only as God has commanded, and as are comprehended within the bounds of one's particular calling, and all works.
GATT Contracting Parties have self-elected their designation, most recently when the WTO was created.
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Rather than a kind of lawlessness, these chatrooms occasion the opportunity for each community to write and enforce its own rules about online conduct and self-elect its enforcers.
In response, the CCPA began to “self-elect” bishops at the instigation of the government.
To self-appoint; to volunteer; to take on a role one has chosen for oneself.
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Which of ye will venture upon me? —Will you, Mr. Constable self-elect? or you, sir, with a pimple on your nose, got at Oxford by hard drinking, your only badge of loyalty?
Over the past five years they have created a model of a school community council where students can 'self-elect' to be a part of a supportive framework of student-led teams.
Students and families reacted with their feet and decided to apply to other institutions of higher education or self-elect themselves out of 4-year institutions altogether due to the preceived climate in higher education.
Adjective
Chosen by oneself; self-appointed.
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The House of Keys, being self-elect, in these days of popular election by the people, is not a very popular institution.
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As there would be no necessity for civil governments, if every individual was self-governed ; so in the Kingdom of GRACE, there would be no need for societies external to the churches, certainly not for close corporations, self-elect and self-electing, for the execution of the Commission.
For Margaret, this escape had earlier meant a release from her oppressive sense of the sinfulness of conjugal relations — having given birth to a child "born in sin"; . for James, escape had lain in his assumptions of respectability, his hope for release from the stigmatized taboos of his dissolute ways through the amalgam of gentlemen rake, of poet and drunkard, of a self-elect and self-condemned man.
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The self-appointed elite.
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Meantime the minister ascended the pulpit-stair, with all the solemnity of one of the self-elect, and a priest besides.
Moreover, the self-elect seem as illiterate as they are tyrannical, and can hardly spell their own names.
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I repeat that he was never a subtle schemer— sitting behind the screen and pulling his wires— which his political and party enemies discovered him to be as soon as he began to get in the way of the machine and obstruct the march of the self-elect.
A volunteer.
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Most of the volunteers had departed for the winter, leaving behind three hundred self-elects.