Sentence examples for fending for itself from inspiring English sources

The goal should be to encourage Kiev to take steps that will make Ukraine more democratic, more stable and more capable of fending for itself.

And, for all her talk of Alaska fending for itself, she told me, "There isn't a need to aspire to live without any earmarks.

My notion of half was more like the earthworm's: you cut it in two, but each half remains an earthworm, wriggling and fending for itself.

Although it seems obvious that Japan's best hope of fending for itself is to trade advanced goods and services for cheap imports such as food, the civil servants in its farm ministry have long used this trend to frighten the public.In this section Getting comfy with the general In from the cold Faltering steppes At last, progress Plastic fantastic Facing the scythe?

But over the last year both the RO and FiT support mechanisms have been either removed or wound dramatically further down – with the government arguing the industry should largely be fending for itself while bill payers should be spared unnecessary cost.

Relying on a model of import substitution (another vexed concept, although one beloved of Jane Jacobs, still our most influential urbanist), we've studied the marginal possibility of the city increasingly fending for itself by, in effect, reducing its ecological footprint to the dimensions of its political boundaries.

The rest of the country has to fend for itself.

The rover will have to fend for itself on Mars.

– or you may prefer to make Eton fend for itself.

History, however, is often left to fend for itself.

The economy, like the climate, will be left to fend for itself.