Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Self-support.
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Examples
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At the end of the program, participants repay their loan by bringing a pair of their animal's offspring back to Asili Hopsital, enabling Project GRACE to continue a cycle of empowering future participants with tools to achieve self-sustenance.
Vivian Glyck: What's AIDS Got to Do With It? Vivian Glyck 2011
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Much is made of Eggleston's visual preoccupation with his native region, and certain "qualities" of the south - the sense of topical wear and even decay, for instance, or the persistence of rural self-sustenance even in the middle of urban environments - do persist.
Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011
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Much is made of Eggleston's visual preoccupation with his native region, and certain "qualities" of the south - the sense of topical wear and even decay, for instance, or the persistence of rural self-sustenance even in the middle of urban environments - do persist.
Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011
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At the end of the program, participants repay their loan by bringing a pair of their animal's offspring back to Asili Hopsital, enabling Project GRACE to continue a cycle of empowering future participants with tools to achieve self-sustenance.
Vivian Glyck: What's AIDS Got to Do With It? Vivian Glyck 2011
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It was during a Pitch Your Own Game assignment where I proposed a 1500's village-farmer-by-day, werewolf-by-night, Adventure RPG based around self-sustenance and social contracts amidst betrayal where you're compelled to befriend people as much as eat them, and survive one event-driven calendar year skirting a Church ready to burn you at the stake once they discover who you are; kind of an Oblivion meets Harvest Moon meets Persona 3 affair.
We Built Another World SVGL 2008
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Many have demonstrated a determination to use the support provided by the project toachieve self-sustenance in the near future.
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I work so much better when I'm single because I know I have to work on self-reliancy and self-sustenance.
Archive 2009-02-01 floreta 2009
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• Plan the marketing of produce to local areas with a view to self-sustenance and even profitability community-supported agriculture.
Archive 2009-01-01 Paleocrat 2009
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You make the investment, but you don't want an immediate return; you can afford to wait and allow the business to achieve self-sustenance, and then you will see a return on that initial investment.www. binashah.net
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Because two people whose approaches to self-sustenance and pleasure are that uniformly different probably aren't going to make it.
Elissa Altman: What Do You Eat When No One is Watching? 2009
whichbe commented on the word self-sustenance
The ability to not need to ever eat or sleep.
May 15, 2008