self-perpetuating
adjective
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Contemporary Examples of self-perpetuating
Long-term unemployment isn't special just because it's longer; it's special because it's self-perpetuating.
In war and in peace, inevitable, self-perpetuating economies arise around the smuggling of illicit goods.
Independent voters increasingly see both parties as captives of corrupt, self-serving and self-perpetuating political machinery.
The pendulum swing of politics has a funny way of self-perpetuating.
Historical Examples of self-perpetuating
The somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.
The Whence and the Whither of ManJohn Mason Tyler
Its current development appears to be motivated by a self-perpetuating drive: knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
The body was self-perpetuating and very careful to maintain its respectability in the election of new members.
Memoir of John Howe PeytonVarious
The proposal contained within itself that self-perpetuating power, for which the schemes of slave-owners are so remarkable.
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called AfricansLydia Maria Child
They are all self-perpetuating, yet always passing into new forms.
I Walked in ArdenJack Crawford