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  • On Earth, after the first fusion plant was going, it was a simple matter to direct enough power to subsequent plants to let them power up to the point where they could self-sustain their own magnetic bottle to contain the reaction.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • Sect. 4 of this bill refers to econmic and trade development in these countries, to self-sustain or improve their economy, and would mobilize and help in the participation of busniesses, of foreign entities, etc., including private/public partnerships-trade deals.

    Gore speaks: I still may endorse 2008

  • This integrated, complex understanding is what mattered most to a community's ability to self-sustain and regenerate.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • Individuals released from detention should be granted the right to work, in order to self-sustain where possible, and which has the connected right to Medicare as a taxpayer.

    Refugees and Asylum Seekers 2009

  • I can try to make them see the value of their natural environment and the need to replenish and restore their own resources so that they can continue to self-sustain.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • I can try to make them see the value of their natural environment and the need to replenish and restore their own resources so that they can continue to self-sustain.

    In the direction of my daydreams 2007

  • As a result, cooperation becomes the dominating trait in scale-free networks of contacts in which the few highly connected individuals are directly inter-connected, in this way contributing to self-sustain cooperation.

    The Evolution of Cooperation: Hawks, Doves, Ravens and Starlings - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • And that means getting Iraqi troops to be at a level and a preparedness that they ultimately take care of their own security, getting that oil production -- which is lower than when we went into Iraq -- back up so that they can self-sustain in both their security and in their economy, and then withdrawing American troops so that we can get them home safely.

    CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2005 2005

  • How many times has a dependent woman, who had hastily married an improvident husband, awakened at the end of a short honey-moon to find that she had only a limber stick or a broken reed to lean upon, instead of a self-reliant, independent, self-sustain - ing man, able to provide for her the comforts of a home, and to protect her from the rudeness and suffering of privation and want!

    Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

  • Chelsea, who already cannot self-sustain itself, is spending crazy amounts just to get back in the CL... a competition that will kick them out because they are spending too much!

    The Guardian World News Kevin McCarra 2011

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