self-sustainment
- a word derived from self-sustaining.
Example Sentences
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But Afghanistan will continue to provide just a fraction of those costs, despite past predictions that the country would eventually be moving closer to self-sustainment.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2016
True reverence lies rather in accepting unmurmuringly the order of things we find; in believing in the completeness and self sufficiency of nature and humanity, and that these contain within them elements of self-sustainment.
From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by Holyoake, George Jacob
No other talisman has the power; pride, self-sustainment, coldness, pleasure, nothing—nothing—but that divine word of Life which is life's soul!
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Emerson said that The Nation had “breadth, variety, self-sustainment, and an admirable style of thought and expression.”—“I owe much to The Nation,” wrote Francis Parkman.
From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford
Fanny combined with the attractions of her youth and beauty, a certain weight of self-sustainment as if she had been married twenty years.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
