You get a separated intelligence, not an assistant but a self-contained entity, and its behavior is not governed that way.

It can be viewed as a self-contained entity - a self-sufficient slice of frozen time.

The city-state was a population center organized into a self-contained political entity.

It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it.

The park is a self-contained non-profit entity.

Part of the new town design was that each of these would be a self-contained entity, with local shops and primary schools.

If it does not excite or inspire, then the holiday, as if it were a self-contained entity, is rejected in a search for something better.

Simply establish big-time intercollegiate athletics as self-contained financial entities.

Every story is a self-contained entity.

Rather than a self-contained entity secure behind its rows of classical columns, the museum now exercises centrifugal force.