In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts.

He had to reach safety in the next few seconds, by his own unaided efforts.

It is well defended, surrounded by high walls, quite beyond the powers of the Israelite tribes to destroy by their own unaided efforts.

Bootstrap as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one's own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922.

It considers whether the building has adequate structural means of escape whereby persons could make their way safely from it by their own unaided efforts.

It will do you a world of good to learn how rich a man feels when he is earning twenty-five dollars a month by his own unaided efforts!

But then a calamity threatened, the Etlans through their own unaided efforts must have begun to cure themselves.

Although this result had been attained through the unaided efforts of the teachers, to their surprise and indignation their salaries were not increased.

On the one hand we must never imagine that our own unaided efforts can be relied on to carry us even through the next twenty-four hours as "decent" people.

However, businesses in the tourism sector - many of which are SMEs - are not always able to attain these objectives through their own unaided efforts.