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How to use the word self-sufficiency in a Sentence?

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China's market is much larger, which probably makes self-sufficiency easier for them, china's internet has been isolated from the very early days ; for Russians, the new isolation will be experienced as more of a loss and disruption.

Joanna Szostek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We understand having warrants and open cases can be barriers( to self-sufficiency), when we hit( this population) at the right time, when they are in that position when they are ready to make changes... we can help them make those positive changes and move towards self-sufficiency.

Jeanne Robison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We needed factories to produce our own ammunition and workshops to repair the aircraft and other vehicles that were given to the Afghan forces, but the international forces did not work to build a foundation, a self-sufficiency in Afghanistan.

Ata Mohammad Noor

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Teenagers have been having fights, including fights involving knives, for eons. We do not need police to address these situationsby showing up to the scene and using a weapon against one of the teenagers. TUCKER CARLSON: JURY VERDICT IN DEREK CHAUVIN TRIAL A CRY OF 'PLEASE DON'T HURT US' Everyone should be frightened that the ruling [W]hite elite have done such a thoroughly successful job of not only disconnecting us from the means of basic self-sufficiency, but also convincing us we need armed [W]hite officers to manage our children and communities.

Bree Newsome

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The basic seeds and themes of the new five-year economic development plan are still self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

Kim Jong

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Weve also seen an uptick in emails, traffic, and sales of our Deer Hunting 101 online course. People are flocking [to hunting]this year as they have increased time and an opportunity to get outdoors, there is also an increased awareness of the possibility of food shortages or issues of modern industrial food systems. Self-sufficiency, a connection with nature, andlocal, sustainable protein free of animal welfare concerns are all reasons why there are now more hunters.

Hank Forrester

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have to adapt to climate change, and these are the best varieties to recover food self-sufficiency.

Eusebio Olmedo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The principle driving it is an old American value and that's self-sufficiency.

Ken Cuccinelli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The principle driving it is an old American value and that's self-sufficiency, it will also have the long-term benefit of protecting taxpayers by ensuring people who are immigrating to this country don't become public burdens, that they can stand on their own two feet, as immigrants in years past have done.

Ken Cuccinelli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In offshore oil drilling we'd like to cut the reliance on imports by improving the self-sufficiency, (The plan) draws up... major development projects for the oil industries in exploiting natural gas, shale gas and offshore oil. The latter two will remain as China's strategic moves to ensure energy supply.

Yang Shuangquan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We don't believe in self sufficiency. We believe in supplying the country's needs, self sufficiency would imply to have an exportable surplus and that is not going to happen soon.

Daniel Redondo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In future we have to feed more people, and agriculture is becoming part of geopolitics, you see in a lot of countries there is interest in local production. In Russia it's influenced by a self-sufficiency policy.

Krijn Poppe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You see in a lot of countries there is interest in local production. In Russia it's influenced by a self-sufficiency policy, with Saudi Arabia it's driven by food security.

Krijn Poppe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.

Robert D. Richardson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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