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  • Again, this is more of a case where people are self-helping and evading the regulation through technology, but here is the ACLU link.

    Television Regulation in Web World 2006

  • The former teacher and social worker was driven by her passion to improve lives to political an self-helping movements.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions, but are the voices of debility.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • While Butterworth himself may have been forgotten, his self-helping descendants like Suze Orman and Dr. Phil McGraw are everywhere, blanketing bookstores and the airwaves.

    Here’s Sound Advice: Write Book, Become Rich 2003

  • Now there can be no kind of doubt that the passive type of character is favoured by the government of one or a few, and the active self-helping type by that of the Many.

    Representative Government 2002

  • Thus the active, self-helping character is not only intrinsically the best, but is the likeliest to acquire all that is really excellent or desirable in the opposite type.

    Representative Government 2002

  • Its graduates whom I have met are manly and womanly, self-respecting and self-helping.

    The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 4, April, 1895 Various

  • The great majority of the volunteers must be handy, self-helping men; and bands of citizens from the same towns or villages must be disposed and accustomed to concerted action; but cooking is probably the last thing they have any of them turned their hand to.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

  • Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

    IV. Essays. Self-Reliance. 1841 1909

  • Midway in his sophomore year, Opdyke, with a dozen others of his kind, had revolted from the monotony of the commons table, and had set up a so-called joint of their own, an eating-club presided over by a gaunt and self-helping senior, and served by a quartette of cadaverous and self-helping sophomores among whom was Scott Brenton.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

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