self-support

A country so steeped in manmade misfortunes, so proud of its ethos of self-support, was caught unaware when nature struck.

She saw herself condemned to stand alone, and at a season when she was not strengthened by pure self-support.

How often has the dignity of self-support and self-respect been gained when an external prop has been removed!

Here my self-support gave way all at once, and I broke into a passion of crying.

Girls are kept as long as necessary to train for self-support.

So long accustomed to submit to and lean upon despotic authority, its various nationalities had lost the power of self-support.