You want to encourage a sense of independence, self-reliance, and responsibility.
The project aims to promote self-reliance among disadvantaged families.
The courses are designed to develop self-reliance, teamwork, and confidence.
It is of little avail if they are lacking in self-reliance and active curiosity.
That contempt flowed directly from his belief in self-reliance.
These acute concerns developed into a desperate sense of the need for self-reliance.
Children from single-parent homes might have a better sense of self-reliance but a more confused understanding of the relationship between parents (or just the opposite).
Also, many were members of nonconformist congregations, the independent organisation of which produced a self-reliance expressing itself politically, and in the running of friendly societies.