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Example sentences for: self-reliance

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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.
The goal is not independent self-reliance, but a more internalized sense of dependence on the company.
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.
And while I do believe that clinicians can help in this regard by sharing their knowledge openly and by encouraging patient self-reliance, it now seems quite clear that growing numbers of patients are perfectly capable of empowering themselves, with or without their clinician's blessing.