How to Use self-sufficiency in a Sentence

self-sufficiency

noun
  • The goal is to provide a place to live right away and a path to self-sufficiency.
    Gail Cornwall, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • At its simplest, this is a story about how Gia learns to trust again, to reject the myth of self-sufficiency.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • Push for self-sufficiency The issue of egg supply and price has humbled shoppers across the board.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Cultivate self-sufficiency with a creation plan that works, and stay high energy for more of the week.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The country has been counting on its tech firms to help achieve technological self-sufficiency to catch up with the U.S.
    Angela Huyue Zhang, TIME, 7 May 2024
  • An exciting new law in the Show-Me State is promoting a pathway to self-sufficiency.
    Arthur B. Laffer, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, Mayor Palmer has focused more on new arrivals, many from Venezuela, and how to match them with resources that support their self-sufficiency.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Get ready to enter the next evolutionary stage of your self-sufficiency.
    USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Uranus in Taurus on the 9th also accents the importance of freedom and self-sufficiency.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Xi’s ambition is for China to achieve self-sufficiency in all these sectors.
    George Magnus, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
  • Plus, the property boasts a number of other features for self-sufficiency.
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Not to mention hives for bees, water-capturing systems, and a goal of self-sufficiency through year-round harvesting.
    Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Last year, Beijing reportedly banned use of the iPhone by government officials as part of a wider drive for tech self-sufficiency.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The shelters also provide resources such as case management aimed at long-term self-sufficiency, the office said.
    Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
  • Beijing has been pushing for self-sufficiency in core technologies as the United States and its allies curb the exports of key products like advanced chips to China.
    Laura He, CNN, 19 July 2024
  • The goal of UpStart is to move people into self-sufficiency and independence.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • For China, the race for technological self-sufficiency presents perhaps a greater challenge than any the country has faced.
    Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Beijing, meanwhile, has sought to bolster its tech self-sufficiency, a goal top leaders reaffirmed at a key policy meeting last week.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • Germany for example, also has a very high self-sufficiency rates.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
  • The Taliban have said they are focused on boosting economic self-sufficiency through trade and investment.
    Reuters, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There was much talk of self-sufficiency, a mode everyone in the town was forced into when the unprecedented blaze overwhelmed authorities and services.
    Reis Thebault and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these wilderness lovers choose to take this solitude to the extreme, electing to live as far from others as possible and relying on self-sufficiency for many of life's necessities.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
  • State public-assistance programs should be there to provide support in times of need but designed to emphasize the importance of self-sufficiency.
    Arthur B. Laffer, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That means demonstrating self-sufficiency on the river and showing complete deference to Frith and his handful of volunteers.
    Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • Oregon’s self-serve-gas bill is a small victory for freedom in a state otherwise at war with the concepts of human self-sufficiency and self-determination.
    Jeff Eager, National Review, 11 July 2023
  • The celebration of free spirits in the remote desert emphasizes self-sufficiency.
    Ed Komenda, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • He’s understood all his life how working on the land not only teaches self-sufficiency, but also generates a strong sense of community when the bounty and labor are shared.
    Jodie Valade, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The new smartphone project is just one of many of Russia’s attempts at technological self-sufficiency and digital sovereignty.
    Masha Borak, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Our national immunization program, which is among the best in the world, offers more than twenty free vaccines to all Brazilians and has been making its way to self-sufficiency in vaccine production.
    Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The extraordinary home blends into its lush surrounding landscape and offers self-sufficiency in power, water and food.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2024

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