self-propulsion

Some producers, like Russia, are developing mines with better sensors, target-recognition systems, stealthy coatings, and self-propulsion systems to enable them to move about.

The Terrorist Threat Beneath the Waves Andrew F. Krepinevich 2011

For a few reasons, but mostly because I am in love with self-propulsion and self-motivation.

Matthew Modine: Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah 2009

For a few reasons, but mostly because I am in love with self-propulsion and self-motivation.

Matthew Modine: Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah 2009

The bicycle provides a greater sense of self-propulsion because it can carry us further and faster than our feet.

Matthew Modine: Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah 2009

For a few reasons, but mostly because I am in love with self-propulsion and self-motivation.

Matthew Modine: Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah 2009

The automobile took us further and faster than we could have ever done by self-propulsion.

Matthew Modine: Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah 2009

This greater understanding of the nature of self-propulsion and collective behaviour of these organisms promises to elucidate key evolutionary steps toward greater biological complexity.

Scientists Discover ‘Dancing’ Algae | Impact Lab 2009

But if he isn't .... (and I am pretty damn sure he isn't) ... well, than this man was forged in the same melting pot of confusion and enlightenment and self-propulsion that has marked the advent of many an exceptional soul possessed of an undeniably American story.

Michael Tonello: Obama Campaign - PLEASE FORWARD 2008

I nursed my disappointment, learned to dream, to be an artist, to convert my alienation into an engine of self-propulsion beyond the little world that oppressed me.

X-Ray Vision 2008

Thought this might be that at first look at it, but it obviously isn't, and in fact is a frankly insulting so-called "mobility aid" without any means of self-propulsion.

Things that crack me up #47 Kay Olson 2008