Now that my children are self-supporting. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"There on the wide window seat was the self-supporting cat". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
"I've never seen a self-supporting cat," Miss Thorley laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
"Have you seen George Washington, the self-supporting cat?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
She is still poor, though her children have now become self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
Every one knows that the students of Harlowe House are self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
She makes them self-supporting, but gives the benefit of labor to the laborer. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
As a self-supporting student on scholarship, I don't know what I would do without them. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone Wants One, But Do Tax Cuts Really Work?] Reference
The system is self-supporting and involves no charge upon the tax-payers of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
School it is asserted that out of 1,800 former pupils, only three are not self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
Dependent homes mean dependent churches, while prosperous homes mean self-supporting churches. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
It was being proposed to require a small payment in order to make the schools self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The City State, self-contained, self-supporting, truly democratic, is marked by a similar pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
To be self-supporting through work which we enjoy is one of the greatest blessings of our existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The South was self-supporting, as the hibernator that crawls into a stump to subsist upon its own fat. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The old tasks at which a woman could be self-supporting in the home are no longer possible in the home. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
We believe that our partners in this effort will achieve the status of self-supporting nations once again. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
"You tell her how self-supporting he is?" she asked Mr. Jerry's Aunt Mary in a voice that reeked with pride. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
This may seem a negligible quantity to many women, unmarried, with relatives all self-supporting or well-to-do. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
During the first six months, Cary's task was to see to it that every man and working family were self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Wakefield "self-supporting" colonial specific comes into collision, moreover, with Cobden's "perish all colonies.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Still I believe if you would once put the idea away of being self-supporting you'd see matters in a different light. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
These posts should be self-supporting, but should be so sited that the garrisons mutually support each other by fire. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
A national black museum is part of the dream of African-Americans to produce empowering, self-supporting institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting Blackness] Reference
It is true, financial consideration did not govern me in this matter, although I do hope to make the farm self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The immediate purpose of the school was to train the youngest and poorest wage-earners to be self-supporting as quickly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
Every man and every self-supporting woman can become the owner of a homestead; and about one person in every ten has become a landholder. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Every effort should be made to lead them, through the paths of civilization and education, to self-supporting and independent citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Thus, instead of abandoning this line after an experiment of twelve years, and finding that it could never be self-supporting, the British. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
Ultimately, Kapor hopes the project will be self-supporting, with money coming from corporate sponsorships, foundations and licensing fees. From Wordnik.com. [Forcing Open Windows] Reference
Sumner to attempt his scheme of making the soldiers in New Mexico self-supporting, by raising their own meat, and in a measure their own vegetables. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
At the same time, costs in the region are high, and there's particular pressure on public universities to make these foreign enterprises self-supporting. From Wordnik.com. [Michigan State To Close Dubai Campus] Reference
VisionSpring, itself a nonprofit, needs charitable donations, but deploys a self-supporting franchise business model around the world to distribute and sell glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Lewis: Eyeball-To-Eyeball with Hybrid Poverty Solutions] Reference
Nelson Haley, however, desired to be self-supporting, and he felt that he had accepted all the assistance he should from the old aunt, whose patrimony was not large. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
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