self-sustaining

“We will have to be Athens and super-Sparta,” adapting to an “autarkic,” or self-sustaining, economy, he added.

Thousands of families now risk calls from debt collectors — but officials say their hands were tied: unpaid balances were straining the district’s food service fund, which is federally required to be self-sustaining.

The Epstein saga, which seemed to be old news at the beginning of this year, is approaching a self-sustaining critical mass that will be difficult for anyone, no matter how well-connected or influential, to contain.

Though it was set up 20 years ago with a relatively modest pot of £5m, today it is self-sustaining.

And in that lies another interesting tension: the idea of self-sustaining pop celebrity, straddling these two worlds of DIY inventiveness and image-heavy exposure.