How To Use Self-sufficiency In A Sentence
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Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The church planter must break the mould of self-sufficiency and dare to rely on his or her team.
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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
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A flat which had seemed to offer stimulus, satisfaction, retreat and self-sufficiency dwindled overnight into just somewhere to live.
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Its doctrine was self-sufficiency and the Fabian socialism that Nehru's generation imbibed during the struggle against colonialism.
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Losing my father young put me in a unique position of independence and self-sufficiency, and reliance on my own resources.
Times, Sunday Times
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They also can help students overcome barriers to success, frustration, and pain, helping them grow to greater self-sufficiency.
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The book which arose from the author's series on TV that touches on living in the country, cookery, self-sufficiency, food gathering and smallholding.
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Although much of the traditional agriculture of times past has disappeared - the village threshing floors are now broken and abandoned - there remains a feeling of rustic self-sufficiency.
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To be "poor in spirit" is the opposite of Laodiceanism, which consists of self-complacency and self-sufficiency, imagining I am "rich, and in need of nothing.
Reformation Theology
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He believed in the idea of self-sufficiency and the combination of budo and farming.
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If these funds are used primarily for economic development then, for the first time, economic self-sufficiency is possible.
The IndianYesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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For many other immigrants, the route to economic stability was in self-sufficiency.
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And it would be possible only if communities attain self-sufficiency and do not have to transport goods needed for their needs from far off places.
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For these people the idea of economic self-sufficiency held no appeal.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.
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We believe severe overcapacity and low self-sufficiency in iron-ore and coking coal could result in Chinese steelmakers facing a prolonged period of close to trough-cycle margins," brokerage Goldman Sachs said in a note on Tuesday after downgrading Angang Steel to a Sell from Neutral.
China Steel Makers' Shares Tumble
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They also can help students overcome barriers to success, frustration, and pain, helping them grow to greater self-sufficiency.
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The claim of self-sufficiency cannot be contingent upon an appendage to another human being considered superior.
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Today, a people that prided itself on rugged self-sufficiency during the war depend on the steady flow of trucks carrying sacks of grain donated by the World Food Programme.
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He sneers at the arguments against it: self-sufficiency and the tired old cultural card.
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If you dismiss his offers in the name of self-sufficiency, you reject him.
THE SURRENDERED SINGLE
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Individuals must take advantage of all other means of self-sufficiency and view social assistance as an absolute last resort.
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No subunit aims at self-sufficiency, but seeks rather to exchange the products of its own activities with those of others.
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However, due to hindrances in the conditions imposed by former owners, many practices, which would have led to self-sufficiency, were impeded.
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Oma's mayor, Mitsuharu Kanazawa, who was in Tokyo recently to lobby for resuming work on the plant, dismissed the suggestion that his town is gambling its safety and self-sufficiency for a handout from Tokyo.
A Nuclear Japan's Biggest Fans: Mayors
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But I'm not sure my reparative fantasy of total self-sufficiency is entirely healthy.
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Economic autarchy ("autarchy" is just philosopher-speak for "self-sufficiency") has a long pedigree in Thomistic (the most prominent strain of Catholic) philosophy.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The rules of self-sufficiency were changed yet again as oxygen was pumped in to prevent brain damage.
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'' It is no accident that the Labour Party of 1964 should share this craving for autarchy, for economic self-sufficiency, with the pre-war
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This approach rejects the autonomy and self-sufficiency of neoclassical economics.
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The main crops in the momentum toward optimum self-sufficiency include roots and tubers, pulses, fruit, leafy vegetables and condiments.
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Basil of Caesarea (33079), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West.
B. The Early Church
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Differences in status and the capacity for economic self-sufficiency — not to mention the capacity for self-regard — compromise the integrity of consent, no matter the culture.
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Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
The Book of Snobs
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Otoh, the more sophisticated humans become the less self-sufficiency is an applicable idea.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism:
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Our strong cultural attitudes of independence and self-sufficiency also prohibit the seeking of fellowship.
Christianity Today
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In Kwazulu Natal, Africa, a handicrafts workshop has afforded rural women economic self-sufficiency and self-esteem.
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Franco imposed a policy of economic self-sufficiency or autarky.
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The push to restrict people's opportunities to buy and sell based on region is an attempt to bring about what economists call autarky, or economic self-sufficiency.
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A multibillion-pound blitz on green self-sufficiency in energy?
Times, Sunday Times
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Likewise, the Nazis subsidized the construction of homes in rural areas in order to encourage self-sufficiency and to alleviate overcrowding in the cities.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Further, given its emphasis on local self-sufficiency and the virtue of life in small communities, a question arises over whether bioregionalism is workable in an overcrowded planet.
Environmental Ethics
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In economic work, we must abandon once and for all the ideal of self-sufficiency, which is a characteristic of the natural economy.
Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
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Labels: food self-sufficiency, gardening, seed starter comments:
Impressed by a Possible Future
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Employees are chosen for self-sufficiency and for the ability to take responsibility.
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They preach the gospel of self-sufficiency, railing against government handouts.
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The West has lost it's confidence in assimilation, of self-sufficiency, so immigrants learn to celebrate their indigenous culture (which was so wonderful they had to leave it), to demand various rights, and glom onto racial and ethnic hucksters who make a living off the guilt of European suburbanites.
Immigration: Has the Public Been Ignored?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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She moved from pretended self-sufficiency to a recognition of her need.
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Do not misunderstand me: my reference to potential net energy self-sufficiency is not an assertion that we will be self-sufficient in conventional sweet crude oil in this decade.
Energy and a Sense of Balance
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And frankly, a palooka Rollins is: covered head to toe with tattoos and belching metallic tales of power run amok and self-sufficiency.
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It aims at war because it wants autarky - because it wants to live in economic self-sufficiency.
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One might view Interiors as a stern rebuke for a life both unappreciated and without any sense of self-sufficiency.
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This is made thinkable as a prospect by the numerous people of the region who, as any observant traveler will notice, are excellent gardeners, who practice other arts of subsistence such as beekeeping, and who by such means have kept alive the spirit of self-sufficiency and independence.
Energy Bulletin -
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On the last leg of the trip, seven students remained in what NOLS spokesperson Bruce Palmer describes as a "self-sufficiency field base experience.
ABC News: Top Stories
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They were industrious by nature with a strong work ethic and a firm belief in self-sufficiency.
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Corruption and inefficiency dogged the private companies contracted to provide caseworkers - those charged with shepherding former welfare recipients to self-sufficiency.
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A right to self-determination exercised in a way that actually perpetuates welfare dependency, rather than independent self-sufficiency, will eventually come to be seen as unsupportable by the vast majority of citizens.
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Dwelling as they did in clusters of local self-sufficiency, marked by a low standard of living, the people were ever threatened by famine.
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The second section explores contrasting divine attributes in ways that put their relationship to the soul's condition on good display (God's serenity and creativity, self-sufficiency and faithfulness, lordliness and lowliness).
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The economy, which after independence 60 years ago was all about non-alignment and self-sufficiency, is now booming.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said the uplink facility will be the first of its kind in Ireland, and will increase ‘Ireland's self-sufficiency in the satellite market.’
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Cooking our own meals added to a smug sense of self-sufficiency and general worthiness.
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Second, North Korea patterned its entire philosophy of self-sufficiency - juche - as a repudiation of what it termed the "flunkeyism" of Korea's previous position in the Chinese tributary system.
North Korea as future ally of US?
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Late last year, Mr. Chen wrote an essay questioning whether the notion of self-sufficiency needed to be revisited in the light of current agricultural economics.
China Sees Food Need Rising
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They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.
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Monotony came from the self-sufficiency of small farms; since bread was the staple food, most farms grew wheat, along with other cereals like rye, oat, buckwheat, maize and barley.
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Rather, Gandhi's environmentalism had its roots in a deep antipathy to urban civilization and a belief in self-sufficiency, in self-abnegation and denial rather than wasteful consumption.
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Monotony came from the self-sufficiency of small farms; since bread was the staple food, most farms grew wheat, along with other cereals like rye, oat, buckwheat, maize and barley.
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What politics did was to deprive the citizen of his self-sufficiency and his freedom to choose and to act.
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The President pleads for agricultural produce and self-sufficiency.
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Without it I had cobbled together a half-baked credo of chippy self-sufficiency and an irritating need to be recognised.
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The district had gone from self-sufficiency to an extreme degree of dependency.
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Perry Tomson and I used to consider George's friends as models in the manner of smoking a pipe, or ordering whiskey-and-soda at Bertrand's to give us an appetite for our mutton-chops or our _bifteck aux pommes_, and in the delightful self-sufficiency with which in the pleasant spring days they would cut recitations and loll on the grass smoking cigarettes right under the nose, almost, of the professor.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
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Traditionally, the agentic style has been more valued and represents "masculine" traits, like ambition, confidence and self-sufficiency.
Andrea Learned: In 2011, Sustainability Will Force the De-Gendering of Business Leadership
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To the people in these areas, "survivalism" is simply a newer word describing the self-sufficiency practiced in these areas for generations.
Energy Bulletin -
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Suffering insults us by calling into question our self-sufficiency and integrity as individuals.
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We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio propensities, and intolerable vanity about La France, la gloire, l’Empereur, and the like; and yet I think in my heart that the British Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
The Book of Snobs
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Most of the main development agencies working in the Majority World now have goals to encourage women's self-sufficiency.
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The church planter must break the mould of self-sufficiency and dare to rely on his or her team.
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Disabled people, in particular, often have a greater degree of self-sufficiency than many able-bodied people however.
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My frustration with talk of "self-sufficiency" is that we're in an economy that is facing an oxymoronic jobless recovery, when official unemployment is at 10 percent in places doing well and unofficial unemployment -- when you take into account those who have stopped looking for work or those caught up in the war on drugs on account of the dearth of good jobs -- is through the roof.
Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola
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Perhaps my objection is too literal-minded, taking Massie's talk of self-sufficiency and "winds of the world" at face value as descriptions of our perception of certain kinds of novels rather than metaphorically, approximations of the reading experience -- "it's as if this novel wanted to be self-sufficient, turned inward into language" or "it's as if this one is trying to take stock of historical circumstances.
Confusion and Turbulence
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Energy self-sufficiency for the US is not only feasible but close.
Times, Sunday Times
