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Example sentences for: self-reliance

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With modern America's emphasis on independence and individualism, you might say that the early separation from parents is sending a forceful message to their children that they are going to have to learn that American virtue of self-reliance.
Not surprisingly, this self-contained region engendered a stalwart sense of self-reliance and independence in its inhabitants.
For example, each tub must stand on its own bottom is said to be an old proverb stressing New England self-reliance, but A Dictionary of American Proverbs documents its distribution throughout the United States and Canada.
In an article published in 1975, José Armas describes machismo as a mode of behavior necessary for an individual to live life with integrity, self-reliance, and dignity.
Take jackeroo , for instance, the name given to a young Englishman of independent means who came out to Australia to gain colonial experience by working in a supernumerary capacity on a sheep or cattle station, who enrolled in the nineteenth-century equivalent of a senior management course, either genuinely to learn self-reliance or gracefully to take himself off his family's hands.