He's reasserting Satan's sublime but, of course, completely disastrous bid for something like an absolute self- sufficiency.
It's Mammon that comes closest to Milton's own – this puritan ethos of disciplined liberty, hard work, and this kind of absolute self-sufficiency.
Sony's track record of game-changing inventions the transistor radio, the Walkman, the Trinitron led it to believe that success lay in self-sufficiency and absolute control.
Sony's track record of game-changing inventions — the transistor radio, the Walkman, the Trinitron — led it to believe that success lay in self-sufficiency and absolute control.
Figures from Defra date back to 1956 and show that the year 1984 that the NFU have chosen as their baseline was the absolute peak of self-sufficiency during the past half century.
Where there is a sufficiency of information, absolute event rates can be used to compare benefit and harm of rare events.
In an age where green-powered self-sufficiency is an absolute necessity, John Bryson is unfit to be Secretary of Energy.
In other words, the time it takes to shepherd newborns through absolute helplessness to a point of relative self-sufficiency predicts primate intelligence more strongly than the best measure that has previously been proposed, namely, head circumference.
We modeled the physician supply system to estimate the future number and sufficiency level of clinical physicians and forecast the absolute number of physicians required.
That understanding is sufficient, and far from undermining its sufficiency, postmodern thought tells us that we have grounds enough for action and justified condemnation in the democratic ideals we embrace, without grasping for the empty rhetoric of universal absolutes to which all subscribe but which all define differently.
