0 able to provide everything you need, especially food, for yourself without the help of other people -- （尤指食物）自給自足的
It was not in itself and never could be a self-sufficient standard of truth and virtue.
While religion is always susceptible to the sceptical challenge as to truth, its acceptance at least provides a self-sufficient ground for morality.
On the other, they relocated small groups of refugees who became self-sufficient thanks to a daily government subsidy.
Throughout, the bar structures and their subdivisions are governed by self-sufficient, more or less ad hoc numerological and proportional devices.
These competing constructions of older people as frail\healthy, dependent\independent, self-sufficient\a burden, are increasingly exposed to public view.
One's fellow creatures must be neither self-sufficient nor beyond harm.
With colonial rule firmly entrenched, the administration turned to making the colonies economically self-sufficient.
Why is such melodic eloquence not allowed to be self-sufficient?
