self-sufficing

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But Eastern manners need scarcely be called in to explain a sentiment which we find repeated by one who is generally esteemed the most self-sufficing of Europeans.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus

Each nation strives by means of an exclusive possession of colonies to become self-sufficing.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.

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

In other words, Europe had ceased to be self-sufficing, the very life of its industries and its urban populations being dependent upon foreign importations from the most distant regions.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

The idea was to provide the country with a supply of wheat until sufficient wheat-growing soil could be broken up to make it practically self-sufficing in respect of wheat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various