self-sustainment

It creates self-sustainment even if its primary focus isn't the GNP.

The New Laws Richard Aleman 2007

It creates self-sustainment even if its primary focus isn't the GNP.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

These are people skilled in the use and application of military communications systems and the sustainment of those systems, the logistics piece of that, and their own self-sustainment for however long they're about this business.

Background Briefing By Sr Military Planners ITY National Archives 1995

Nation_ had "breadth, variety, self-sustainment, and an admirable style of thought and expression."

Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887

She resembled her brother, the lord of Earlsfont, in her remarkable height and her calm air of authority and self-sustainment.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

She resembled her brother, the lord of Earlsfont, in her remarkable height and her calm air of authority and self-sustainment.

Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

She resembled her brother, the lord of Earlsfont, in her remarkable height and her calm air of authority and self-sustainment.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Not that he had the least strength of heart or hope, or steady purpose in so doing, beyond the habitual cheerfulness of his disposition, and his amazing power of self-sustainment; for within himself, he looked on their condition as beyond all hope, and, in his own words, 'came out strong' in consequence.

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

A composed and unobtrusive self-sustainment was noticeable in Daniel Doyce -- a calm knowledge that what was true must remain true, in spite of all the Barnacles in the family ocean, and would be just the truth, and neither more nor less when even that sea had run dry -- which had a kind of greatness in it, though not of the official quality.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

Fanny combined with the attractions of her youth and beauty, a certain weight of self-sustainment as if she had been married twenty years.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841