The shock has propelled some moneyed buyers to consider a new, high-tech type of residence: the self-sufficient safe house that can withstand storms and power outages.
For experienced ultra-runners the challenge of self-sufficient running in the extreme heat of the Sahara is too good to ignore.
As a nation, the UK is still self-sufficient in the production of fresh milk and cream.
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Moreover, Brazil is one of the few countries in the world that is self-sufficient in oil and has the largest farmable area in the world.
We must put all our energy and resources to fulfill the aim that we become self-sufficient in the nearest possible future.
His views about the affirmative action cases that come before him are shaped quite clearly by what he regards as the self-sufficient dignity of his hard-working grandfather and the humiliation he says he felt when others believed his scholarly accomplishments were the result of affirmative action.
The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
The engineers building the product are pretty self-sufficient and are able to hack on most levels of our stack.
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It tends to be the very same Green Party which points out that the UK is not self-sufficient in food.
The self-sufficient great landowners had little interest in maintaining roads, protecting those who were not employees or generating prosperity for others.
Examples: A fertilizer subsidy program in Malawi has increased the area cultivated by about 25%, and the country has been self-sufficient since 2007.
The self-sufficient, car-free island is just 3 miles (4.8km) long and 1.5 miles (2.4km) wide and has a resident population of about 600.
The whole thrust of this recommendation goes against the grain of becoming self-sufficient, taking care of your own finances rather than depending on handouts.
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Borrowers house their deposits in a bank they collectively own, and now that the institution is self-sufficient, borrowers are effectively making loans to one another.
Libya's rapidly growing population will need extra water for domestic use, but Colonel Qaddafi's ambition to make the country self-sufficient in food is not going to be practical.
Syria is the only Arab country that is self-sufficient in food, but the main construction activity in the past two decades has been the extension of slums around Damascus.
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The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
I've insisted that, like any private insurance company, the public insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums its collects.
Some want the state to become more self-sufficient, and advocate a return to an agricultural economy.
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The Midwest would become more self-sufficient in their energy production, an important factor for such an important food-producer.
First, fracking made the U.S. self-sufficient in natural gas.
It also wants the UK to be more self-sufficient for its energy, so it doesn't have to rely on other countries to supply our power and is less dependent on volatile and increasingly expensive global gas and oil prices.
The tribal kids were a group of self-sufficient doers, able to forage food and otherwise help out with the chores of daily living.
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The other will lead to an ascending independent and self-sufficient Haiti being lead into the future by its middle class.
Not least of the factors making for dissension among the Indonesian islands has been the ratio at which rice, in which Java is usually self-sufficient, exchanges for the products of the normally rice-deficient outer islands.
The much heralded Green Revolution of the 1960s, with its miracle seeds, made India self-sufficient in staple foods, but in the last decade agriculture's growth rate has notably stagnated.
But Beijing insists the country should be 95% self-sufficient in grain, and it requires provinces to shoot for self-sufficiency too.
Without the process the U.S. would go from being self-sufficient in natural gas to depending on shipments of LNG from the likes of Qatar.
In a generation or two, the Zulus were farmers and herders no more, no longer proudly self-sufficient, and their families, once the very soul of their tribe, quickly began to crumble.
Two stories from Haiti come to mind: During the 1970s, Haiti used to be self-sufficient in rice.
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