In just a few years, a vibrant, competitive and largely self-contained economy had materialized around the bus stop, or bah-see zhan, an economy that employed at least 200 people, all of them bound to one another in a complicated network of alliances, dependencies and feuds.
Cambodian villages usually developed in a linear pattern along waterways and roads, but houses were also often found on largely self-contained paddy farms.
So openness and curiosity have nourished him, but his track record as an artist suggests a firm, unaffected identity, something already well honed and largely self-contained.
But these powers were largely self-contained; they interacted little and thus had no need to agree on a set of common rules to guide their relations.
Medieval Europe was largely self-contained until the First Crusade (1096 99), which opened new political and commercial communications with the Muslim Near East.
Perhaps, but the striking thing about these deals is that, with the exception of Zain, most of the acquired firms still seem largely self-contained with relatively little integration with the Indian parents.
White voters have justified the clampdown on the grounds that illegal immigrants have caused a violent crime wave, when in fact, outside the largely self-contained crime committed by Mexican drug cartels against themselves, the state is enjoying a period of relatively little criminality.
People committed to social change, from here as well as from Paris and other cities, came to create a largely self-contained neighborhood of apartment buildings, parks, schools, and health and local services in this city of 160,000 people, at the spectacular juncture of two rivers and three mountain ranges at the foot of the French Alps.
This survey is largely self-contained.
It's a largely self-contained system, and one I never had to spend much time fretting over.
This situation implies a largely self-contained tradition of rice: it makes it possible that a start of rice cultivation in Asia is due to linguistics ancestors of the Austroasiatics.
