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• s  able to provide for your own needs without help from others

• By the late 1920s the company had become so vertically integrated that it was completely self-sufficient.
• Her children and other relatives offered to help, but Whitehouse is fiercely self-sufficient.
• And while Castro in his cold war heyday was propped up by the Soviet Union, Chvez is a self-sufficient revolutionary.

• self-sufficing
• self-sustaining

News & Articles

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• Summary Box: Egypt wheat harvest mired in politics
  GRAIN OF TRUTH? Early in Egypt's wheat harvest President Mohammed Morsi said the crop would be 30 percent higher than last year, and the country is on track to be self-sufficient in the grain. SHORTFALL: ...
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Egypt's wheat harvest becomes mired in politics
  IBSHAWAI, Egypt (AP) — Early in Egypt's wheat harvest this year, President Mohammed Morsi spoke in a televised address, proclaiming the crop would be 30 percent higher than the year before and that the country is on track to go from being the world's biggest importer of wheat to being entirely self-sufficient in four years.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Egypt's wheat mired in politics as government claims dramatic leap in harvest
  IBSHAWAI, Egypt — Early in Egypt's wheat harvest this year, President Mohammed Morsi spoke in a televised address, proclaiming the crop would be 30 percent higher than the year before and that the country is on track to go from being the world's biggest importer of wheat to being entirely self-sufficient in four years.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Canada.com
  This humanity of the 21st century appears as sure and self-sufficient master of its own destiny, the avid proponent of uncontested triumphs,the Pope added.
• Pedro Sanchez in FOXNews
  In two years, the country has changed from a food aid recipient to a food aid donor and is self-sufficient,Sanchez said. "if Malawi can do it, richer countries like Nigeria, Kenya can do it."
• Hoshyar Zebari in International Herald Tribune
  At an open council meeting, Zebari told members that despite the senseless violence "the government has made tremendous strides toward the day when security will be provided by a self-sufficient, Iraqi national security force."