0 decided by yourself, without being influenced or ordered by other people: --
1 decided by a company, person, etc. themselves rather than being decided or ordered by others: --
I have, then, discharged the first of my self-imposed obligations.
Brief imprisonment was followed by a long period of self-imposed exile which ended only with the outbreak of revolutionary disturbances in 1848.
This self-imposed time limit would ensure that the venture didn't outlive its artistic vitality (implying of course that it might carry on longer if successful).
In turn, a whole new set of public buildings were built, designed to represent the city's self-imposed role as the 'base of the southern advance'.
A self-imposed submission to a technological imperative in terms of neglected responsibility can be extremely dangerous.
The reason for this is partly the authors' self-imposed discipline of restricting the literature they use to, largely, pre-1999 articles in public policy journals.
Many significant feminist (and anti-feminist) texts of this period stress women's responsibility (or inability) to overcome their weaknesses and self-imposed constraints.
This self-imposed rigor foregrounds the problem of the spectator's professional identity.
