Self-reliant

Sami is highly self-reliant.

Southerners are regarded as polite and easygoing and Midwesterners are considered self-reliant and conscientious.

Russians are self-reliant.

The Constitution deliberately makes the President and the Congress competitors as well as partners. The Founding Fathers created an elaborate system of checks and balances to keep each partner self-reliant while still assuring their interdependence. No brief account can fully capture the complexity of this relationship, in which each partner contributes his own share of stubbornness, pride, hostility, warmth, suspicion, skill, and affection.