How To Use Self-contained In A Sentence

For those of you unfamiliar with the term "pylon," for our purposes today, a pylon is a self-contained package of six cruise missiles that can be quickly mounted to the wing of a B-52. DOD Briefing on B-52 Munitions and the Bent Spear Incident
Under the "fly-in fly-out" roster system, workers can be moved to a different self-contained unit, or "donga", rather than having their own rooms, as they have had in the past. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
These brave soldiers will be maintained in self-contained biospheres, like giant lizards from another star, which given the moral status of their behavior, they might as well be.
Lucky for me I brought the full-faced respirator and self-contained breathing apparatus with me.
The next agent of this class, isoproterenol, did not appear until 1949 and the self-contained metered-dose inhaler to deliver it was invented in 1956.

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The state also cited Cobalt's miners for failing to wear their air packs, called self-contained self-rescuers, and for failing to have a cache of the devices within reach. TV series 'Coal' brings citations, new business to Cobalt
It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
Will the owners of townhouses carve out self-contained flats in the attic or the basement to avoid the annual toll? Times, Sunday Times
Acadian farms, dependent on dikes and the development of marshland, were self-contained and achieved high levels of production of cereals and apples, and then of livestock.
Customs occupy a self-contained area within accommodation provided for freight companies requiring offices without warehousing.
Some have sidecar expanders for more faders, knobs, meters or a joystick; some units are entirely self-contained.
They want self-contained flats and don't want to share a bathroom. Times, Sunday Times
Self-contained campuses including health clubs, clinics, shopping complexes and even schools are mushrooming, and developers are offering resort-like living away from the city.
It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
The second were generation ships, which had self-contained biospheres where the crew was not in stasis pods, but alive.
Gillian Anderson is supremely self-contained, demonstrating a subtlety in her performance that mirrors the style of the film.
Their completely self-contained unit is environmentally friendly, water wise, while the company will also take away the waste water.
The farmhouse is split into three fully self-contained and furnished apartments, and has access to a swimming pool, barbecue, deck chairs and sun umbrellas.
more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen
The society, a professional organization of doctors and a few scientists, was self-contained and moribund, an ossifying Manhattan social club. The Emperor of All Maladies
Apart from the increased likelihood of heckling, self-contained groups like stag or hen parties tend to gab among themselves during performances, attention spans drained by too much drink.
There is a double garage with two workshops, a self-contained annexe and a winery. Times, Sunday Times
This ability to be self-contained probably came in handy during her nomadic childhood. Times, Sunday Times
“Since each nanite is essentially a self-contained computer, the connectors also let them link into a distributed computing network!” Delta Anomaly
The acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus is acceptable in all references. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
He seems completely self-contained and he doesn't miss you when you'renot there.
The consensus among contractors seems to be that a tow-along or pull-type scraper is less expensive than a self-contained unit.
Few people who use the word readily register the fact that its letters initially stood for words: self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. The English Is Coming!
A village has to be a self-contained unit, providing basic necessities like food, housing, clothing and education.
The other circus performers are like family to us, but we all live in self-contained worlds. Times, Sunday Times
His delicate constructions are all entirely self-contained, giving an impression of great sonic diversity.
Just give the disappointing sequel a miss for fears of spoiling the excellence that lies within this self-contained laid-back comedic charmer.
Subject to planning permission, this could be converted into a self-contained apartment or granny flat.
Her father was a quiet self-contained man.
* No need to prefreeze the bowl, thanks to self-contained, eco-friendly refrigerant. Fatwallet.com Hot Deals
One wing is a self-contained house. Times, Sunday Times
There are two self-contained cottages facing the courtyard, but no stables.
A lounge, function room, self-contained snooker room, office and a committee room doubling up as a television lounge are all on offer at the new club.
The fragments of concrete poetry that make up the bulk of Free Cell honor the rapid-fire plausibility of waking thought, which is to say the collection's often self-contained stanzas are by turns intimate, aphoristic, and incoherent -- but never less than truthful. Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
Construction and development from this point right up to the 1960's has left a kind of villa colony, with various self-contained units erected across the rolling countryside.
Mathematicians have long been taken with the concept of fractals, which posits that patterns are made up of smaller, self-contained patterns.
The self-contained accommodation at garden level is accessed separately from the front garden.
The proposed two-storey property would be substantial in size and would include a triple garage and a self-contained two-bedroom lodge at the front.
These will provide self-contained accommodation for two families of up to five members each.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—that is to say, a self-contained but slightly smug little kid called Wolfie—plays second fiddle to his older sister in René Féret's beguiling celebration, in French with English subtitles, of the family's other prodigy. 'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
It provides an opportunity to acquire a substantial family home in a sought-after location, while the potential offered by the self-contained unit should also prove a big plus.
This recyclable and self-contained nature is a legacy of Microsoft's earlier object oriented applications effort, the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) standard.
She's very self-contained and isn't at all worried about moving to a big city where she won't know anybody.
Berg also embeds within the score a number of self-contained closed forms: sonata-allegro, rondo, variation, canzonetta, cavatina, etc.
Even with the advent of self-contained breathing apparatus, the sport was hardly unhazardous. Times, Sunday Times
Cordless vacuum cleaners, trimmers, drills and grass shears would not exist if not for the need for self-contained power tools used by Apollo astronauts on the Moon.
Berg also embeds within the score a number of self-contained closed forms: sonata-allegro, rondo, variation, canzonetta, cavatina, etc.
He seems completely self-contained and he doesn't miss you when you'renot there.
Now, as you can see, this is a self-contained room, it's separate from all the others and it's got an air-lock here.
When views to the west were lost in fog or hidden behind trees, I would often stand between the fields and wooded scarp slope looking south-east to the Clee Hills: a strangely self-contained land with its two mountains, wide open commons and isolated history. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The reader who buys his book will get a readable translation and a neatly packaged one - that's, one that's self-contained and told in the form of a continuous story.
Will the owners of townhouses carve out self-contained flats in the attic or the basement to avoid the annual toll? Times, Sunday Times
This accommodation is available under the Private Leasing Scheme and is a self-contained unfurnished property.
Fred is a quiet, unassuming, self-contained scientist with a tremendous capacity for seeing a difficult practical problem through to its conclusion.
The muscles needed to animate the T-101s faces with their self-contained nervous system were also progressing nicely. T2: INFILTRATOR
Few people who use the word readily register the fact that its letters initially stood for words: self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. The English Is Coming!
Family farms are no longer self-contained units, and the work force now moves around, contracting in specialist areas.
With an attractive beamed ceiling as well as windows to the front and sides, this has potential for conversion to a self-contained flat, subject to the relevant planning permission.
The cruise had a swimming pool, restaurants, gyms, a minigolf course, self-contained rooms, a spa and a sauna.
More perhaps than any other phase of the human contribution, it has been treated as a special and self-contained faculty, differing form others in possession of mysterious potencies. June 2010
It has six bedrooms in its main section and a further three in the adjoining self-contained wing. Times, Sunday Times
The two qualities seem naturally to combine into that self-containedness (very different from self-contentedness) which distinguishes Chaucer, and which helps to give to his writings a manliness of tone, the direct opposite of the irretentive querulousness found in so great a number of poets in all times. Chaucer
It has four receptions, a garage and a self-contained flat. Times, Sunday Times
Formal precast fountains of all shapes, sizes and themes may be self-contained or installed in the center of a pond or pool.
The junk of scaffolding at the bottom of the photo is actually the theatre itself - it's actually a self-contained unit within the building.
She's very self-contained and isn't at all worried about moving to a big city where she won't know anybody.
They were hard at work yesterday on the self-contained net area adjoining the ground. Times, Sunday Times
There are nine bedrooms on the first floor, one within a large self-contained annexe. Times, Sunday Times
Whether a new annexe amounts to a self-contained unit depends on the facts of each case. Times, Sunday Times
Embryology then unfolds as the realization of an initially unformed but completely self-contained potential.
To complaints of this kind — which have been voiced with regard to the earlier books as well — defenders of Rushdie have responded by arguing that he works, and should therefore be read, within two narrative traditions: of the Western novel (with its subgenre, the anti-novel à la Tristram Shandy), and of Eastern story-cycles like the Panchatantra, with their chainlike linking of self-contained, shorter narratives. Palimpsest Regained
When their doors are closed, the rooms, clad in dark cedar tongue-in-groove siding, blend into the trees and become self-contained units linked by a void of skylit corridors.
On his own, Emeralds member Mark McGuire's looped guitar work can be incredibly self-contained, which is why this collaboration with Trouble Books, the husband and wife duo of Keith Freund and Linda Lejsovka, is surprisingly, well, collaborative. News
The two upper floors contain five en suite bedrooms, then a self-contained guest apartment on two floors with its own reception rooms and four bedrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Her father was a quiet self-contained man.
Fig. 63 is given to illustrate a danger peculiar to the self-contained oil system, in which the oil and oil-cooling chambers are situated adjacently in the turbine bedplate. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
The villa comes with two self-contained apartments and is just under two miles from the beach and shops. Times, Sunday Times
Will the owners of townhouses carve out self-contained flats in the attic or the basement to avoid the annual toll? Times, Sunday Times
Her father was a quiet self-contained man.
Westfield Gardens, on the town's Glasgow Road, will form a small self-contained development of 26 detached villas.
O'Hara has divided the poem into four unrhymed quatrains, with each of first three consisting of one self-contained sentence.
O'Hara has divided the poem into four unrhymed quatrains, with each of first three consisting of one self-contained sentence.
The self-contained facility has a positive-pressure HVAC system to prevent the ingress of airborne contaminants and cross-contamination from other operating lines.
There are nine bedrooms on the first floor, one within a large self-contained annexe. Times, Sunday Times
A terrarium is a beautiful little self-contained, self-sustaining universe.
The track is self-contained and self-satisfied, like they've found a circus of their own.
However, because there is also a well equipped bathroom with both a bath and shower at this level, there is the possibility of using the property as two self-contained units.
Pushed carefully to the left --- and totally supported by a well-formed, self-contained plywood partition --- was Wesley's banjo. BEHINDLINGS
We created a self-contained house within the rectory, comprising mainly the attic, with steep stairs going through a couple of rooms in the lower floors.
In addition to three reception rooms and four bedrooms, it boasts a self-contained granny flat, a two-story mews and extensive parking for six cars.
The proposed development will contain 16 self-contained living units specifically designed with the needs of Alzheimer's patients in mind.
There are nine bedrooms on the first floor, one within a large self-contained annexe. Times, Sunday Times
She is not aloof and yet there seems something rather self-contained about her.
That way this self-contained unit will not put pressure on resources in towns and cities.
I can look after myself better than most people; I'm self-contained.
Planning permission is not required for the sub-division of the altered building into separate self-contained retail units.
By the 1930s a sweet shop, cobbler, upholsterer and a tailor were all added, turning the hospital into a small self-contained village.
The MRE is a totally self-contained operational ration consisting of a full meal packed in a flexible meal bag. 110825158054789189 « ResourceShelf
It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
The muscles needed to animate the T-101s faces with their self-contained nervous system were also progressing nicely. T2: INFILTRATOR
It is a completely self-contained cooling unit, which is located outside of the computer case.
Concepts were not in his eyes the static self-contained things that previous logicians had supposed, but were germinative, and passed beyond themselves into each other by what he called their immanent dialectic. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
The remainder of the property is laid out in bedroom accommodation with a self-contained apartment on the first floor and an additional seven to eight bedrooms and bathrooms on the upper floors.
It was a self-contained world, she says. Times, Sunday Times
That was not the commonplace series of references to other pages, but a complete self-contained digest of the main spot news of the day. Times, Sunday Times
Additional features include a private island - a small sea stack known locally as The Stag - and a 24 square metre self-contained Swiss chalet in the back garden, which features two bedrooms, a living area with kitchenette and a shower room.
There's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we've put our best designers to work on our range.
There are also three adjoining annexes, one with six bedrooms (all en-suite), as well as a self-contained apartment and another two with three en-suite bedrooms apiece.
In our health clubs we have self-contained shower units offering women complete privacy to wash and get changed. Times, Sunday Times
He is very self-contained, and doesn't really like all that.
And because the tractor unit is self-contained in a single unit, greater tractive effort can be applied to help move the unit through wet soils.
He made the lower level into a self-contained guest unit with two bedrooms and a kitchen. A Lodge in 'The Park'
There are also 16 converted cottages that provide charming self-contained accommodation in the grounds.
The Maxus - 4 rocket launched on 29 April carried seven experiments stacked in five self-contained modules.
The accommodation is competed by a self-contained unit adjacent to the dining room.
The environment department intensively needs a self-contained, network conscious and easy-deployment smart terminal to satisfy the requirement of the field inspection for the environmental inspector.
There is also a really small self-contained flat. Times, Sunday Times
Each of its three stories, self-contained but obliquely connected, presents a female character at a different, crucial stage in her life.
At the moment, yet another project is under way - an old barn out the side that is being converted into a self-contained apartment for older children or guests.
Single forms are formally complete and tonally self-contained and are not divisible into smaller units.
A self-contained queue complex like the one at the Tirupati Devasthanam would be a great relief to the pilgrims who wait for hours together on the trekking path for the holy darshan.
Each chapter is self-contained and can be studied in isolation.
But its supposed friends have too easily seen its problems as self-contained, and allowed themselves yet another conference in which to tackle the worsening trouble. Times, Sunday Times
A closed loop is a self-contained unit that has no identifiable beginning or end, like a circle or an integrated circuit.
It comprises another double bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and a spacious reception room and could be used as a self-contained unit or integrated with the rest of the property.
To the left of the library there are two small downstairs bedrooms and a kitchen that will make up a self-contained annexe when finished. Times, Sunday Times
China's eco-agriculture technology has primarily formed a self-contained system info, but it still reserves some conventional management modes in the economy background of industry marketization.
The booster is a simple reciprocating double-acting steam engine which is self-contained and is attached to the frame of the [trailer] truck through a three-point suspension.
It is split into nine self-contained apartments and multiple play areas. Times, Sunday Times
The government wants to encourage viable self-contained rural communities.
Armstrong is a good conductor and a self-contained man, myopic by design.
Self-contained...even to such detail as a snake-bite outfit.
Accommodation includes two sun lounges, study, two self-contained apartments and five bedrooms.
The prosopography continues with a self-contained and disproportionately long multigenerational family history of the Zudendorp clan, complete with discussion of its historiography.
She was scrupulously kind to her, and the governess was scrupulously exact in all courtesy and attention; still that impassible, self-contained demeanor, that great reticence – it might be shyness, it might be pride, – sometimes, Ursula privately admitted, "fidgeted" her. John Halifax, Gentleman
The gustatory sense of the taste is a mulriple consciousness, and the particularity lies in it's self-contained intentionality which laid the foundation to enter into aesthetic consciousness.
The opposed sets of self-contained images interpenetrate one another; by the end of the book it is impossible to say that Don Quixote is mad, and impossible to say that the duke and the duchess are sane.
He suspected that the property might include a self-contained annexe and he wanted to see it. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, multiculturalism teaches students to see all cultural outlooks as self-contained wholes.
Other outdoor features include a 100 ft brick pavior terrace, a water feature, a self-contained annexe, a double garage and electric gates at both the north and west entrances.
Subject to planning permission, this could be converted into self-contained accommodation, a games room or home office.
Covering up to 5000 sq ft, each of the five-bedroom homes will have self-contained apartments over the triple garage, suitable as guest accommodation or as a home office.
Plans to turn an old mill into three self-contained apartments will be considered by planners in Rossendale this week.
North American built the Hound Dog with a canard, a delta wing configuration, an underslung J52 engine, and a self-contained inertial autonavigational guidance system.
There is also a self-contained apartment with a bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette and its own separate entrance.
A monastery (from the Greek ‘to live alone’) is a more or less self-contained settlement constructed to house a community of monks or canons.
In fact he reminded me of a cat, a very big cat, slow and smooth and self-contained.
Mendelssohn's melody forms a self-contained, cadentially closed unit, a little garden of its own.
Some courses can be bought off the shelf as self-contained study packages.
There is also an integrated double garage for which there is planning permission for conversion into dual level self-contained accommodation.
A bootable CD that provides a completely self-contained and fully functional desktop?
He has also converted the old brick shed into a self-contained unit with a kitchen and shower room. Times, Sunday Times
She points out, though, that because the properties are all split-level, they are easy to convert into self-contained living spaces.
It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
The government wants to encourage viable self-contained rural communities.
Alternatively, the original entrance could be restored and the garden level accommodation turned into a self-contained flat.
Since it looks like something that should be portable, they feel that the calzone should be a self-contained meal. Calzones | Baking Bites
The knight rode ahead of him calm and self-contained, but Kieran felt as though insects were crawling under the surface of his skin.
If re-housing is considered as an option for him, maybe he would be better off in his own self-contained accommodation.
You could run a business from there, or turn it into a self-contained flat. Times, Sunday Times
Hardly anything could be more isolated or more self-contained than the lives of these two walking here in the lonely antelucan hour, when gray shades, material and mental, are so very gray. The Woodlanders
The brand new facilities, compete with self-contained shower units, two large changing areas and a physio room, have been installed at the New Lane site thanks to extensive funding.
They were hard at work yesterday on the self-contained net area adjoining the ground. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of the Order is that where, within a single building, there are a number of self-contained units, each of those self-contained units is separately assessed for council tax purposes.
For comparison, here is a completely self-contained version of the spinthariscope simulation, showing off just how compact and efficient Mathematica code can be: Wolfram Blog : A Thousand Points of Light
And that language is no longer fully understood in a time when decision-making is monopolized by administrators overseeing self-contained bureaucracies. Feisal G. Mohamed: Inside The U Of I Law School's Book-Cooking Scandal
Then there is dowager Jodha Bai, stately, self-contained, but lording over her eyes which swell with more water than a cloudburst can contain.
A self-contained extension to the rear previously served as a doctor's practice.
The tentative plans call for about 100 self-contained units, with subsidized rent based on income.
With the advent of the self-contained cartridge, repeating rifles, shotguns and handguns replaced single shots.
A strong selling point will be a 28 square metre stone outhouse with floored loft - this could be converted to a large garage or possibly a self-contained mews or granny flat, subject to planning permission.
Other outdoor features include a 100 ft brick pavior terrace, a water feature, a self-contained annexe, a double garage and electric gates at both the north and west entrances.
We have learnt how to condense serious messages into short, self-contained sentences.
The two pieces with which Orlandersmith opens are rich character sketches that evolve seamlessly into moving, self-contained mini-dramas.
In Object-Oriented programming (Schach, 2002), an object is a self-contained programming unit, consisting of both data and functionality to manipulate the data.
But these restraints may yet be useful for dynastic, that is to say warlike, ends by making the country more nearly a "self-contained economic whole. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
The self-contained chalets are private and overlook a deep harbour but there's a restaurant offering basic hearty fodder if you need it.
the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities
This can be achieved by allowing access through existing ventilation slits, louvres and hoods to self-contained nesting areas kept separate from the rest of the interior.
It is usually much less ambitious and is most frequently found in small self-contained panels set within veneers of walnut, olive, or ebony.
Also, the radiator grille is now composed of a closed, self-contained element inspired by the air intake scoop on the classic Mini. Gentle Mini | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
We created a self-contained house within the rectory, comprising mainly the attic, with steep stairs going through a couple of rooms in the lower floors.
Instead, art - the work of art - finds itself locked in a double bind between self-contained consummation and self-contained exclusion.
All the five new classrooms and a staffroom currently being roofed up are self-contained - with a lavatory, a library and a foyer for putting wheelchairs while the sick bay has a shower room as well.
They wear bandoliers of self-contained paint cartridges.
They were a queer folk, silent and self-contained, and keeping very much to themselves - odd-tempered at times - decent on the whole, for they never produced a drunkard - wonderful horse-breakers and horse-copers and dog - trainers and poachers - relics of an earlier England.
A closed loop is a self-contained unit that has no identifiable beginning or end, like a circle or an integrated circuit.
Each one is a comfortable, self-contained holiday flat with sitting room, dining/kitchen, double or twin rooms and en-suite bathrooms.
Biodynamic farmers have long believed that the farm should be a self-contained unit, where animals eat the crops and recycle the nutrients back to nourish the next crop.
He was a very self-contained man but had extraordinary insight into physics and mathematics.
Other accommodation includes a small self-contained house at the back of the main building, which has a bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette and its own entrance that opens onto the cobbled stable yard.
That way this self-contained unit will not put pressure on resources in towns and cities.
WEDD is an innovative electronic transdermal (iontophoretic) drug delivery system that is totally self-contained, single-use, portable and disposable. Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
Their recollections also emphasize his aloofness, shyness, sudden love of fun, and self-contained nature.
There are self-contained cabins and chalets and a lodge with a shared kitchen and lounge with a log fire.

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