self-directing
Example Sentences
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Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2012
Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2010
Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
The island needed a radically new governmental activity—an activity that would develop each citizen into a self-respecting and self-directing force in the island's uplift.
From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)
Economic society, to be organized successfully, must be built of units that will prove self-acting and self-directing in all matters of purely local concern.
From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Nearing, Scott
