Throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries Sherborn remained a small and relatively self-sufficient farming community.

Settlements must be permanent, relatively self-sufficient homes, not temporary work camps.

These companies became relatively self-sufficient, with little communication directed outwards to other companies or universities.

Or do they import little because they have strong economic incentives to remain relatively self-sufficient in industrial goods?

Working together to make the farm relatively self-sufficient, students learn to use farm products for food, fuel, and clothing.

All of these investments are aimed at the relatively self-sufficient investor, and the companies that offer them pride themselves on the annuities' simplicity.

This area, five miles from downtown, was distant enough from the city that the group maintained cultural identity and was relatively self-sufficient.

As a result, Thailand was relatively self-sufficient, resistant to government invention, mobile, and egalitarian.

These functioned well enough for them to reap sufficient harvests, making the tribe relatively self-sufficient.

The New England colonies were settled largely by farmers, who became relatively self-sufficient.