self-support

Example Sentences

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In the meantime, McMurtry has launched a free web-based app for athletes to find self-support strategies and define how they best communicate and absorb information.

From BBC

“Capability of self-support,” Oliver wrote, “or sufficient assets shall be one of the requirements for acceptance.”

From Slate

The current three types of alimony are rehabilitative, which supports a spouse who left the workforce to care for children or otherwise support the home to help them return to work; reimbursement, which relates to the economic sacrifices made by one spouse during the marriage that directly enhance the future earning capacity of the other; and traditional, which pays for life or for as long as a dependent spouse is incapable of self-support.

From Seattle Times

"That's why it's critical we make that support available in GP surgeries and we've given huge support to online provision to allow people to self-support," she added.

From BBC

It assumes that she would have that capacity for independence and self-support as a woman, which is something that was almost anathema to the white columnists of the time.

From Slate