How to Use sufficiency in a Sentence

sufficiency

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  • But the first step on the path to financial self-sufficiency is finding a job.
    — Andy Puzder, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The theory was that TANF would serve the truly needy, while the lazy would progress into lives of self-sufficiency.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Their goal is to help struggling women turn their lives around and achieve self-sufficiency.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • This time, Maria, aspiring to self-sufficiency, wants to be the leaver, to defy the fate of confinement.
    — Tiana Reid, The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2020
  • The road to self-sufficiency for the transit agency remains long.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • This provoked the chief minister to call for building food self-sufficiency in the state.
    — S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 3 May 2020
  • She was adopted at a young age and compelled to self-sufficiency very early in life.
    — Austin R. Ramsey, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The goal is to move them quickly toward self-sufficiency.
    — USA Today, 28 Dec. 2021
  • But with 300 miles of beaches, Sierra Leone can claim self-sufficiency in sand.
    — Peter Yeung, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The area’s high cost of living, fueled in large part by the current tech boom, acts as an obstacle to self-sufficiency.
    — Tyrone Beason / Columnist, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
  • At the same time, Cry Macho casts doubt on the value of masculine self-sufficiency.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The grant will be used to improve the survivors’ safety, access to justice and self sufficiency.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Our dreams of self-sufficiency were further fed by the craze for turning kitchen scraps into crops — even if only on a very small scale.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • In those years between the cuddly attachment of childhood and the self-sufficiency of adulthood, teens can cause quite a headache for those who love them.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But the question of whether the goal of self-sufficiency has been achieved is seemingly subjective.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The value of even the illusions of privacy and self-sufficiency is too high.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The goal is for these families to reach self-sufficiency within 12 months.
    — The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2021
  • That's a quick path to self-sufficiency and the ability to provide for your family.
    — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
  • But at the time, there also emerged a group of scholars who did question the sufficiency of liberalism.
    — Christopher Beem, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Heating with wood is a study in stubborn self-sufficiency.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The purchase is in line with the government’s push for energy self-sufficiency, López Obrador said.
    — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 June 2021
  • The push for self-sufficiency in case of a full shutdown promoted more people to plant a vegetable garden.
    — oregonlive, 19 June 2020
  • The self-sufficiency of that military base has long played a role in keeping Twentynine Palms sleepy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Her role here, like the other innkeepers, is to firmly push the guests toward taking concrete steps to self-sufficiency.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • This is the first real chance for many (of them) to transition from poverty and life on the streets to the dignity of self-sufficiency that comes with a successful career.
    — Allie Torgan, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • Their newfound self-sufficiency is a boon not only for the research, but also for each other.
    — Wudan Yan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • There are so many ways to instill self-sufficiency in children, but withholding comfort is not one of them.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • Today’s Army no longer thinks of itself as a Euro-centric ground force that strives for self-sufficiency in waging war.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Vos can challenge the sufficiency of petition within 10 days of its filing.
    — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The judge overseeing the case ordered each side to file briefs addressing the legal and evidentiary sufficiency of the jury findings.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024

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