Sentence examples for cannot fend for themselves from inspiring English sources

It has been said that people raised in Communist countries cannot fend for themselves, because they expect the government to take care of them.

It doesn't make sense to me economically to force people to live below the poverty line because they simply cannot fend for themselves.

If investors such as Goldman Sachs and Hank Greenberg cannot fend for themselves, something more needs to be done if Chinese companies are to continue to trade in American markets.

These are families who cannot fend for themselves for reasons beyond their control.

"Families who cannot fend for themselves frequently take refuge in the belief that their bad luck is rooted in the witchcraft of their offspring," he says.

A.C.S.: This is a very young child, less than seven months old, he cannot fend for himself.

Banter, like a baby left on a rock, cannot fend for itself.

"Some studies suggest that animals kept in captivity for long years cannot feed themselves nor fend for themselves," the judge wrote.

We cannot leave them to fend for themselves.

It also increases the prospect that New York taxpayers will have to pick up tens of millions of dollars in welfare costs once the federal time limits take hold, because state law says the state cannot simply let those people fend for themselves.

Keep in mind that hand-reared wild birds have a low probability of surviving: humans simply cannot teach wild birds to fend for themselves in the wild.[8].