Sentence examples for self-sufficing from inspiring English sources
"self-sufficing" is a real and correct word
It is used to describe something or someone who is able to exist or function independently and without the need for assistance. For example, "The island nation is self-sufficing and produces most of its own food and energy."
An asexual individual is a self-sufficing sovereign player on the stage of life, whereas a sexual, especially obligatory sexual individual is a law-obedient citizen of the multi-organismic realm - biological species.
"For something has impair'd thy spirit's strength, / And dried its self-sufficing fount of joy.
The Politics emphasizes that "a state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange" but is rather "a community of families and aggregations of families [sc. united] in well-being, for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life" (III.9, 1280b30-34, with square brackets added).
Plutarch mentions other criticism of Pericles' leadership: "many others say that the people were first led on by him into allotments of public lands, festival-grants, and distributions of fees for public services, thereby falling into bad habits, and becoming luxurious and wanton under the influence of his public measures, instead of frugal and self-sufficing".
And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
The above statements imply that the evolution of a higher entity cannot be adequately presented as self-sufficing evolution of its constituents.
Despite calls for a boycott in the nationalist press, the chain's swift self-abasement sufficed to quell the row, perhaps because it had already proved its commitment to national integrity by marketing a "McSahara" hamburger.But other offenders have got off less lightly.
Guarantees of individual rights or local self-government should suffice.
Therefore, in order to see that A (hence A − 1 ) is self-adjoint, it suffices to prove that A is symmetric ([18], p.512).
Some say that a tougher form of the current system of self-regulation will suffice, while others say that only some kind of government regulation will provide a tough enough check on the press.
In some cases simple self-report will suffice, while in other cases documentation may be required.
