Chin villages, often of several hundred houses, were traditionally self-contained units, some ruled by councils of elders, others by headmen.
The considerable action is confined to a kilometre-high, self-contained Mega-Block ruled over by the sadistic Ma-Ma, whose gang control the area with the help of a perception-altering drug Slo-Mo (which makes gunfights look awesome).
But a residue of pettiness clung to those tales, with their self-contained world of school rules, whereas the outrage in "The Insult" is uncontainable.
A pocket-size, self-contained projector changes all the rules.
Muslims opposed to understandings of Islam as monolithic, self-contained and defined by unyielding rules and sharp dichotomies naturally emphasize their faith's rich diversity of thought and practice over many centuries and cultures.
Their Byzantine legal structures owe as much to history and tax planning as safety and efficiency.The easiest path would be to force banks to organise themselves into self-contained national subsidiaries, with local rules on capital, and restrictions on lending to other bits of the group.
The Arden Syntax is suitable for representing individual decision rules in self-contained units called Medical Logic Modules (MLMs), which are usually implemented as event-driven alerts or reminders.
This timetable to further Scottish devolution, nothing less than "a modern version of home rule", was "self-contained and unaffected by anything else happening elsewhere", he said.
In his books, Mr. Pullman, like the best fantasy writers, created a self-contained, complex universe with its own rules and vocabulary, plus a whole secularist theology that he has described as a sort of " 'Paradise Lost' for teenagers".
They were generally sceptical of 'autotelic' conceptions of the artwork that view it as a self-contained object answerable only to its own formal rules.
