self-controlling

They gave us an immune system as a self-controlling mechanism and as defense for their turf.

T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System? 2010

They gave us an immune system as a self-controlling mechanism and as defense for their turf.

T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System? 2010

Societies work best when self-controlling, but without information or which bad or bogus information self-control is thwarted.

Trickle-Down Sociology Steven Barnes 2009

The comparison emphasis added is arresting — the republic of merchants, self-controlling from self-interest alone the issuance of debt and paper money by the sovereign, as against absolutist France, “absolute” and therefore “weak.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bond Markets and Republics: 2009

Now, as much as possible, the operator becomes self-planning, self-directing, and self-controlling.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

In another laboratory study, Goodstadt and Hjelle 1973 reported that individuals who perceived themselves to be externally controlled by their environment used punishment to maintain their influence much more frequently than those who saw themselves as internally self-controlling.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

Now, as much as possible, the operator becomes self-planning, self-directing, and self-controlling.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

In another laboratory study, Goodstadt and Hjelle 1973 reported that individuals who perceived themselves to be externally controlled by their environment used punishment to maintain their influence much more frequently than those who saw themselves as internally self-controlling.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

Nowing IS living and the nowing of living isn't self-controlling, it's the zoom of abandon, but the zoom of abandon isn't out of control ness or running amuck (the accusations of thought); it's the self-directedness of that which is already the case.

The Zoom of Abandon 2007

TRIET (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): The foreign policy of Vietnam is based on independence and self-controlling.

CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2007 2007