self-sufficing
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His failure to adjust the customs tariff to the new conditions of a population which was no longer self-sufficing increased distress and discontent with it.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
But this is seriously affected by that doctrine which attempts to regard the Cosmos as self-governing and self-sufficing, needing nothing, and failing in nothing.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
America is the only civilized country in the world that is virtually self-sufficing as regards the primary requirements of her economic life.
From Morals of Economic Internationalism by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
No civilized European country was self-sufficing in the vital factors of a productive and progressive civilization—food, raw materials, machinery, fuel, transport, finance, and adequate supplies of skilled labor.
From Morals of Economic Internationalism by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
In some men, the passion to succeed is clogged by the fear of failure; in others, the sense of their greatness is self-sufficing and indisposes them to effort.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
