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• s  (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

• I became as self-reliant as possible.
• Far from being self-reliant, they said, the village had received massive aid from the state.
• Says Lawrence Lindsey, assistant professor of economics at Harvard: "A middle-class person is someone who expects to be self-reliant, unlike the upper class with its unearned .

• autonomous
• self-directed

News & Articles

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• Feedly No Longer Relies On Google Reader
  Feedly, one of the news readers hoping to become your replacement for Google Reader, is apparently now self-reliant. In the “what’s new” section on Feedly’s App Store page, it says, “Now powered by the feedly cloud. Let’s all wish a …
  June 11, 2013 - WebProNews

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in BBC News
  We want to see a stable, sovereign, self-reliant Iraq,Mrs Clinton said during a "town-hall" meeting with Iraqis from different civil society and interest groups.
• Barack Obama in Reuters
  For Afghanistan, the Obama administration document called for developing "increasingly self-reliant Afghan security forces that can lead the counterinsurgency and counterterrorism fight with reduced US assistance."