Example sentences for: self-sustaining

How can you use “self-sustaining” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the mid-'60s, when the integrationist ideal reached its peak, the black-power wing of the civil-rights movement grew by advocating black self-determination--the establishment of exclusively black schools and a self-sustaining black economy.

  • Thus, in both nocturnal and diurnal species, per expression in the cortex is maximal in conjunction with the major waking episode [ 37 49 50 ] . Under conditions where the phase (methamphetamine administration, restricted feeding) or distribution (circadian splitting) of locomotor activity is altered, per expression in the cortex parallels the overt rhythm of wakefulness, whereas the circadian oscillation of per gene expression in the SCN remains unaffected [ 49 51 52 ] . Thus, in contrast to its role in the SCN, PER protein in the cortex is not a component of a self-sustaining circadian oscillator [ 53 ] . Instead, per expression in the cortex seems to the follow sleep-wake history, consistent with the hypothesis that it is related to homeostatic regulation of sleep.

  • That's why it's crucial to know which populations, if any, are self-sustaining, he says.

  • Part of the answer, according to the logic of CMP, is that once a cultural norm is established--even for purely random reasons--it can become self-sustaining.

  • "University presses are expected to be self-sustaining," White explained.


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