self-sufficing
Example Sentences
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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
Paraguay was an isolated and almost self-sufficing commonwealth.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
The vast majority of fathers feel dismally constrained, indeed, and out of countenance in the presence of their girls—so smart and sophisticated, so superior, critical and self-sufficing are our latter-day school and college-maidens.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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
