An autopoietic system is basically a self-made and self-sustaining ensemble. |
Following his great-grandfather's precepts, it seems he can justly claim to be a self-made man. |
Williams, a self-made millionaire, has interests in the offshore oil industry, telecommunications and tourism. |
In contrast to the Gracchus brothers, Marius was a self-made man with no aristocratic background. |
He told me that the self-made bomb looked like about 10 dynamite sticks that were set to go off yet only one actually ignited. |
One was an aristocrat educated at Harrow and Cambridge, the other a self-made man from small-town South India. |