Part of being an adult means being self-sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Letters: A California Comeback] Reference
Alternative energy could make America self-sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Addicted to Oil?] Reference
They've been bred to be independent and self-sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Mommy Madness] Reference
Largely self-sufficient, India can probably shrug off such punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Ground Zero] Reference
A country suited to dairy farming is no longer self-sufficient in milk. From Wordnik.com. [Big agriculture is the only option to stop the world going hungry] Reference
Twenty of the returnees are self-sufficient enough to hunt for their own food. From Wordnik.com. [Now Life For An Old Bird] Reference
That music is so self-sufficient, it never proclaims its affect, or its message. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Yehudi Wyner's life in music: composer with piano hands] Reference
But we took pride in the fact that we were otherwise completely self-sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Camille] Reference
Even self-sufficient Switzerland is said to be showing some interest in membership. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Defies the Skeptics] Reference
So there are many speculations about her, but I think the poems are self-sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson] Reference
Young Michael, says Charlotte Bloomberg, was always "self-sufficient," always confident. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutionary] Reference
There is a penchant on the part of the people to want to be self-sufficient to some degree. From Wordnik.com. [Adrienne Young: Planting the Earth, Growing Herself] Reference
I believe that we single mothers must become self-sufficient through education and training. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Off The Welfare Carousel] Reference
We need to learn to be more self-sufficient and sustainable and less reliant on restaurants. From Wordnik.com. [Kitchen Secrets] Reference
The PRD has also become largely self-sufficient -- most components can now be sourced locally. From Wordnik.com. [Do The Math] Reference
Waiting, she considers the pleasures of being self-sufficient and alone, strong without a man. From Wordnik.com. [Intangible Vectors of Influence (from "Emergency: Three Romances")] Reference
What Haiti needs most of all is the encouragement and means to become a self-sufficient nation. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti] Reference
His response was revealing for its defensiveness: "I am actually very self-sufficient," he wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Fight Fire with Funny] Reference
Their deportment was insolent and self-sufficient; their eyes were disdainful and all-conquering. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And the islands are so windy, it could probably be self-sufficient in energy just from that source. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii's Electric Car Conversions] Reference
By the 18th century, astronomer Pierre Laplace could explain nature as a self-sufficient mechanism. From Wordnik.com. ['How The Heavens Go'] Reference
Russia is a self-sufficient country with an educated people, plenty of food, huge natural resources. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Power] Reference
For all the criticism of her impossible figure, she maintained that aura of a self-sufficient female. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Magazine] Reference
We are a self-sufficient people, we should be allowed to choose which parts of America we want to pay for. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Larsen: Why Does The Constitution Hate America?] Reference
Similarly, sustainable adult love is the product of two connected yet self-sufficient, "non-needy" people. From Wordnik.com. [Douglas LaBier: The Elusive Soul Mate: From Fantasy to Reality] Reference
Structures like the Bank of America tower in Manhattan are proof that self-sufficient buildings are not far off. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Stoiber: Building the Regenerative City] Reference
Clinton addressed the need for Haiti to become self-sufficient at the United Nations donor conference in March 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: Bill Clinton Puts Influential Muscle Behind Agricultural Production in Haiti] Reference
"As corny as it sounds, I really believe that our republic will not thrive without healthy, self-sufficient journalism.". From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing Newsweek] Reference
Why else would grown women with good jobs and self-sufficient means be sobbing like fools at her emergence into freedom?. From Wordnik.com. [Our Titanic Love Affair] Reference
Also the huge boom in unconventional "shale" gas in North America has meant the U.S. is now nearly self-sufficient in the fuel. From Wordnik.com. [Total Sees Delays After BP Spill] Reference
Bill Lenters Rockford, Ill. My parents 'greatest wish was for their two children to grow up to be happy, self-sufficient adults. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: LEARNING TO DRAW THE LINE] Reference
However self-sufficient he may be, he is stronger, and he feels stronger, in the approbation of generous and appreciative hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Yes, these very kids we want to be so self-sufficient, responsible, confident, happy and creative (not to mention not food-obsessed). From Wordnik.com. [We Protect Kids From Everything But Fear] Reference
But Mayer's study also shakes the reassuring conservative assumption that, if pushed, the poor can become self-sufficient through work. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture Of Poverty] Reference
I saw General Buckner on the boat, he seemed self-sufficient, and thought their loss was not really so serious to their cause as we did. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Although production from restricted areas won't make the United States self-sufficient, it might stabilize output or even reduce imports. From Wordnik.com. [Drilling for Answers] Reference
I believe that as women become more economically self-sufficient, more educated and more business-savvy, they will naturally rise in power. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Reynolds: Stop Praising the Differences in Men and Women] Reference
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