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  • Need had taught her to be selfsufficient, at the cost of many hard and bitter lessons.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • The problem for the politbureau is that the PRC is not selfsufficient esp in the key strategic resources Food, Iron, Coal and Oil.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Oily spin off topic. 2010

  • No local church that participates in the living Tradition can regard itself as selfsufficient. '

    Archbishop introduces His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, to address the Synod 2009

  • We can't all go back to the farm and be selfsufficient.

    Old Frank Herbert Interview 2005

  • By its nature, a houseboat should be as selfsufficient as possible; therefore, we are begining to incorporate solar energy, thermal heating but from water instead of the earth, and other systems into our houseboats.

    LIVING THE LIFE AQUATIC ON A WATERLIVING HOUSEBOAT | Inhabitat 2006

  • The cherub investing himself with his coat was led back to his corner — where, but for having no egotism in his pleasant nature, he would have answered well enough for that radiant though selfsufficient boy, Jack Horner — Bella with her own hands laid a cloth for him, and brought him his supper on a tray.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Hence whatever is there, is of such a nature as not to occupy any place, nor does time age it; nor is there any change in any of the things which lie beyond the outermost motion; they continue through their entire duration unalterable and unmodified, living the best and most selfsufficient of lives.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • In the early stages of each wave of settlement, when the bulk of the highland population was concentrated in the eastern fringes of the steppe and eastern highlands valleys, they maintained a balanced, essentially selfsufficient economy.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • In the early stages of each wave of settlement, when the bulk of the highland population was concentrated in the eastern fringes of the steppe and eastern highlands valleys, they maintained a balanced, essentially selfsufficient economy.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • In the early stages of each wave of settlement, when the bulk of the highland population was concentrated in the eastern fringes of the steppe and eastern highlands valleys, they maintained a balanced, essentially selfsufficient economy.

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

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