Sentence examples for supplying themselves from inspiring English sources

There they lived for nearly 40 years, arming and supplying themselves by means of raids on Spanish colonists.

Some plants have taken a different route, however, supplying themselves with energy by preying on animals, including everything from insects to mice to even birds.

The militants are versed in survival tactics in the hills, supplying themselves from the nomads who pass through and getting water from the numerous wells and ponds, said Pierre Boilley, an expert on the region from the Sorbonne.

According to John O. Casler of the Stonewall Brigade, I soon found, in one corner of the second story, a room full of officers' rations and several soldiers supplying themselves with coffee, sugar, molasses, etc.

Often she has had to defend her agency against critics who say that it moves too slowly, as in the Kosovo crisis, or that it fails to stop combatants from supplying themselves in refugee camps, as in Congo.

However, over time, energy companies have been allowed to become massive conglomerates supplying themselves through a complex web of deals and companies, which means that now perhaps 90 per cent of our energy is traded in secret and only 10 per cent is available on the open market.

Cancer cells co-opt neighboring blood vessels to supply themselves with oxygen.

Moreover, the militants ran a parallel trade by truck to supply themselves along many of the same routes, he said.

States like Germany and Japan, unable to supply themselves with sufficient food for their own citizens from domestic sources, had two choices.

Armies like to be able to feed and supply themselves in the event of a total war.

The Germans had hoped to supply themselves for eternity with grain from the rich black soil of Ukraine; but in fact they got very little.