self-sufficing
Example Sentences
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They do not think it will be found self-sufficing and capable of guarding its own working.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
His military training and the self-sufficing determination which he had acquired in dealing with raw recruits had given him a knack of controlling his fellow-workers.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Bilse, Fritz Oswald
To be self-sufficing will be the first precaution taken by our present enemies, in order that blockade may no longer be a weapon in our hands, so far as their necessary food is concerned.
From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John
The economic unit must be autonomous—self-governing, self-motivating, and in a sense, self-sufficing.
From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Nearing, Scott
But God is not exhausted in the world, nor dependent upon it: He exists eternally in His Triune Being, self-sufficing, self-subsistent....
From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Muir, Pearson McAdam
