self-sufficient

How To Use self-sufficient In A Sentence

• The subtle impossible soul of a person is one that is self-sufficiently knowable (rang-rkya thub-‘dzin-pa’i bdag). A Deluded Outlook toward a Transitory Network
• Economistic imperialism, it is said, is colonizing the last redoubts of self-sufficient thought. The Times Literary Supplement
• When President Obama or Secretary Clinton lauds “smart power” as a self-sufficient counter to Islamofascism, Red Chinese hegemonism or Russian truculence, he (or she) implicitly claims the ability to consistently outwit Osama bin-Laden, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin. European Union
• India is self-sufficient in food production, but starvation is reported every year in this country of a billion-plus people.
• ElBruce says: drhunt1 says: but empowering people to be self-sufficient and self-reliant is THE best form od “advocacy for minorities”. Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
• And yet the Museum was supposed to be self-sufficient financially. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
• One school of thought is that it's designed to last long enough for a couple to rear children to the point where they are relatively self-sufficient.
• The implication was you had to have your own world, you had to be self-sufficient in that way.
• Carrying a tent and a small camping stove with him, he camped every night during his journey through Europe and Russia, cooking his own food and therefore remaining self-sufficient.
• The aim is to make the refugee self-sufficient within a year. Times, Sunday Times