How To Use self-sufficiency In A Sentence
- Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
- But the Yates case revealed a deep gender divide about the isolation and stress of family and motherhood in a society that extols self-sufficiency as its premiere human value.
- In most cases the most prominent programmes have been to support agricultural production in the interests of national self-sufficiency or of export requirements. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
- They illustrate, however, that even where self-sufficiency is possible, it is apt to involve the serious drawback of greatly increased cost. International Co-operation: Common Action for Common Problems
- So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness The Nicomachean Ethics
- The church planter must break the mould of self-sufficiency and dare to rely on his or her team.
- Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by most Americans that she was able to freely mythicize her state as the utopian last refuge of the "hard work ethic," "unpretentious living," and proud self-sufficiency. The New York Review of Books
- A flat which had seemed to offer stimulus, satisfaction, retreat and self-sufficiency dwindled overnight into just somewhere to live.
- Its doctrine was self-sufficiency and the Fabian socialism that Nehru's generation imbibed during the struggle against colonialism.
- Losing my father young put me in a unique position of independence and self-sufficiency, and reliance on my own resources. Times, Sunday Times
