In that self-contained environment a man could lose himself to the rest of the world until the day he died.

By controlling access to the village, the people created a self-contained environment with relative security and protection.

The whole of Pearl is a single self-contained environment.

Wofford offers a self-contained environment (93% of the students live on campus).

"It's not like I'm trying to recapture my youth, but it was an intense experience in a very self-contained environment," she said.

The settlement was established in 1953 as a self-contained environment for disabled children.

And of course it's a way to be very secure, too, because you have a self-contained environment which is difficult to escape from.

In such a self-contained environment, a certain democratic sloppiness can be turned to advantage.

It was one of the earliest attempts to provide a self-contained environment for enjoying the seaside.

The reasons for not using such a self-contained environment, community members say, are practical rather than philosophical.