Sentence examples for a self-contained entity from inspiring English sources

Rather than a self-contained entity secure behind its rows of classical columns, the museum now exercises centrifugal force.

Norbert Elias, author of "The Civilizing Process," used the term homo clausus, the conventional sociological image of the individual as a self-contained entity.

This augmented video is a self-contained entity integrating values of perceptible and non-perceptible attributes of the same real entity.

He sensibly concludes that examining Oswald as a "self-contained entity with fears and inclinations and a tortuous history" is far more profitable than indulging in the baroque conspiracy theories favored by the grassy knoll crowd.

I realized that it is all too easy to think of the body as a self-contained entity, needing only occasional passages of food in and waste out to maintain its normal function.

Yet the real beauty of this initiative is that each aspect of it – print, video podcast, website commentary on Craig David's hilariously aspirational domestic circumstances – works equally well as a self-contained entity, and as a bridge up or down to the next level.

The center is designed to operate as a fully self-contained entity -- providing up to 5,000 Kibera residents a day with the essentials -- water, flushing toilets, showers and laundry services.

Much seventeenth-century historiography, however, still assumes that each North American colony operated as a largely self-contained entity and interacted with other colonies only indirectly, through London.

Separatist leaders make no secret of their ambition to carve out a viable, self-contained entity encompassing the three eastern oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv that could, in time, become an independent state.

We help local leaders scale these solutions to roughly 50,000 people and then we exit the project leaving behind a completely self-contained entity led by local leaders who manage and scale the project throughout their country independent of western capital.

In their so-called quantum cosmology, Dr. Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and author, and his collaborators envision the universe as a kind of self-contained entity, a crystalline melt of all possibilities existing in "imaginary time".