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  • Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 18 weeks 5 days ago so for british scouts "a little advenrure" is wearing bubble wrap, knee pads, and a helmet whenever you walk outside and talking about how they feel safe from bullys? thats crazy i thought they made scouts to teach kids selfreliance not that that u should be scared of poket knives

    Scouts Ban Knives in Great Britain 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 18 weeks 5 days ago so for british scouts "a little advenrure" is wearing bubble wrap, knee pads, and a helmet whenever you walk outside and talking about how they feel safe from bullys? thats crazy i thought they made scouts to teach kids selfreliance not that that u should be scared of poket knives

    Scouts Ban Knives in Great Britain 2009

  • Women ought to know that selfreliance isn't everything.

    Ms. Fix-It 2008

  • Dinah had teased him that he went on cooking lags on weekends only because he wanted to make her look bad, but the truth was that there was a streak of practicality in his nature and a strong sense of selfreliance, and he regularly practiced the skill of cooking 'just as he regularly practiced his other skills.

    Hiding in the Shadows Hooper, Kay 2000

  • They include creches, primary and secondary schools, a vocational training centre, in addition to a fully comprehensive small hospital, 2 farms and a number of small industries, which supported the communities, allowing for greater selfreliance.

    STATEMENT ON MAZIMBU HANDOVER 1992

  • Moreover, the harnessing of small hydro-resources, being of a decentralised nature, lends itself to decentralised utilization, local implementation and management, making rural development possible mainly based on selfreliance and the use of natural, local resources.

    Chapter 4 1985

  • Regards biogas production as an important element in strategies to lift the levels of health and selfreliance in agricultural communities, particularly wherever large amounts of dung are generated;

    Chapter 10 1983

  • The innate distrust of government and centralized control, the rugged individualism and complete selfreliance illustrated so thoroughly in American folklore and still the popular theoretical foundation of the American economic system, cannot be exported to underdeveloped countries, where the role of government must be positive rather than negative and where a certain measure of socialism is essential.

    What is Canada? 1969

  • The innate distrust of government and centralized control, the rugged individualism and complete selfreliance illustrated so thoroughly in American folklore and still the popular theoretical foundation of the American economic system, cannot be exported to underdeveloped countries, where the role of government must be positive rather than negative and where a certain measure of socialism is essential.

    What is Canada? 1964

  • They plunged into the extremely difficult experiment of democratic, of popular, selfgovernment, after enduring the atrophy of every quality of selfcontrol, selfreliance, and initiative throughout three withering centuries of existence under the worst and most foolish form of colonial government, both from the civil and the religious standpoint, that has ever existed.

    X. To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 1914

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