It is discouraging, for instance, to see Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan strive for self-sufficiency in wheat rather than import it from grain-rich Kazakhstan.
But France must consider, he said, whether it can continue to rely on such burden-sharing, or strive for self-sufficiency — highly unlikely given austerity measures.
Long Island is unique in its transmission constraints, he said, so utilities have to strive for self-sufficiency "whether they build or enter into a contract to buy the power".
Yu, a short, thickset man with bulging eyes, could easily pass unnoticed in a crowd of Chinese peasants and workers, but he does not exactly strive for self-effacement.
The urban poor do strive for self-improvement, but their efforts are often nullified by mass evictions to distant peripheries, from where they encircle the urban centres in threatening encampments.
In fact the only sensible course for all countries is to strive for self-reliance – growing all that is necessary to get by – while using (fair) trade to buy in luxuries that others really can grow better (in our case, bananas and coffee).
Warner's program aims to develop a community of people who strive for self-improvement and take responsibility for their own academic careers.
By positing their own lives and actions as examples, the king and the queen, representing at one and the same time the community of living individuals and the larger whole of the tradition, should inspire the people to strive for self-understanding and freedom through education.
This strive for self-definition is vital, as many Hindu Americans have long noted the misrepresentation of their faith in textbooks, and many Sikh Americans have felt marginalized or left out of the discussions of major world religions.
In the accepted paradigm, the indomitable aggression of cancer cells seems to be both meaningless and counter-productive (for some unknown reason, cancer cells always strive for self-destruction).
