self-propelling :

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self-propelling


  • s  containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement
  • s  moved forward by its own force or momentum

  • Thus, initial outlay of $2,100 which he got back, Adman Winters put in motion self-propelling publicity vehicle extremely simple to operate.
  • And the cycle of migration is self-propelling.
  • Chances are, however, that even so they will exert themselves less than the Apollo 14 astronauts did; their longer excursions will be made in the first self-propelling, manned .
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  • Alvaro de Soto in World Socialist Web Site
    Regarding Israel, de Soto asks, "I wonder if the Israeli authorities realise that, season after season, they are reaping what they sow, and are systematically pushing along the violence/repression cycle to the point where it is self-propelling."
  • Hamid Dabashi in Aljazeera.net
    This is a civil rights movement working through self-propelling acts of civil disobedience,Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies at Columbia University, says. "It will change the very political language of the region."

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