sufficiency

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Even should he have successfully resisted them, the struggle, the contest, the necessity of choice would have robbed his manner of that easy self-sufficiency which is one of its greatest charms.

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  1. noun The condition or quality of being sufficient.
  2. noun An adequate amount or quantity.
  3. noun Adequate means to live in modest comfort.

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  • That's not fair to donors either.Self-sufficiency is a path public radio actually started down in the Reagan era.
  • It would be a great role for CPB to be advancing the industry rather than just sustaining the status quo.Self-sufficiency is as important as growing the audience because it cements the foundation for future service.
  • You can always tell a Van Dyck portrait; there is in the face a self-sufficiency, a something that speaks of “divine right”—not of arrogance, for arrogance and assumption reveal a truth which man is trying to hide, and that is that his position is a new acquirement. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • Danna was already well on the way toward good Nomad self-sufficiency, and her mother was sure she would be badly confused by the things the Hillers would try to teach her-especially with all these oxygen-wasters around. —  The Nitrogen Fix
  • I went looking for what economists think about self-sufficiency - generally expecting a negative opinion, since self-sufficiency is the opposite of the Religion of Free Trade Marketeering. —  Politics in the Zeros
 

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