Sentence examples for 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.
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.
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".
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.
The city's residential compounds, especially the luxury developments along golf courses, exist as similarly self-contained entities.
Existing protection schemes are self-contained entities that use independent local measurement chains to deliver their functionality.
Because penthouses are one-of-a-kind, self-contained entities, buyers are more interested in the unit than they are in the building.
Frames for knowledge representation are advantageous because they can be created, visualized, and conceptualized as self-contained entities that correspond to accepted medical constructs.
Moreover, apart from the knowledge gap, there is also an information gap: Project documents, for instance, are rarely self-contained entities, and a modicum of background information on the relevant project often helps significantly in interpreting otherwise cryptic references.
