Designed to activate or move or regulate itself.
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The instrument is called on to become self-acting, and necessarily acts unwisely.
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The door is fitted with a powerful spring and a feather-touch self-acting lock.
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A self-acting apparatus supplied the three travelers with air to breathe.
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But this self-acting machinery follows not the soldier through his campaigns.
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I had for some years been supplying foreign customers with self-acting machine tools.
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The copper complexes with the inherent redox active hydroquinone functionality cleave plasmid pBR322 DNA without exogenous agents by a self-activating mechanism.
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The self-activating property also means that plant G proteins do not need and therefore do not have typical animal G protein-coupled receptors.
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In contrast to animal G proteins, plant G proteins are self-activating, and therefore regulation of G activation in plants occurs at the deactivation step.
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This is Lovelock's concept of Gaia: the Earth as a self-regulating 'organism'.
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This kind of change will be anathema to the self-regulating legal profession.
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The myth of the self-regulating market accelerates the destruction of the self-regulating Earth.
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Some people argue that athletes are good at self-regulating their caloric intake; I disagree.
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The gambling industry is self-regulating, but has faced criticism after a string of failings.
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It was lacking not only in generative, but in self-moving energy.
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Thus Milton makes the hills of heaven self-moving at command:
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The conventional port is equipped with self-moving cranes, diesel skid units, derricks and tractors.
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He was the inventor of self-moving fans, wind-sails, and ventilators.
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Nature is an active, self-moving, living whole, an endless chain of causes and effects.
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CLEINIAS: You mean to ask whether we should call such a self-moving power life?
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The ways there are animals; so true is Aristotle's saying, that all self-moving things are animals.
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Holland and England, self-helping, self-moving, were already inaugurating a new era in the history of the world.
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You ask why your restless microscopic atoms may not come together and become self-conscious and self-moving organisms.
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But if this be true, must not the soul be the self-moving, and therefore of necessity unbegotten and immortal?
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According to him, objective reason (nous) as self-moving, becomes the formative influence which reduces dead matter to form.
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God's chariot is self-moving.
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I took my pistols and placed myself near the self-moving door of the cellar, holding a dark lantern in my hand.
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Some of these stones are said to have spirits in them; those are self-moving, and at times have the power of speech.
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The colored population of the South stands largely by itself, and constitutes no active and self-moving force in matters of political concern.
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Movement, sound, and colour combined to produce in him, what it should produce in all, a sense of immanent Reality, self-moving, self-sustained.