livelihood

How To Use livelihood In A Sentence

• Hunger and poverty often compel the poor to overexploit the resources on which their own livelihoods depend.
• Like virtually everyone else in rural North Yorkshire my business depends for its livelihood on people in motorcars.
• For Maasai to remain ‘people of the cattle,’ livestock husbandry must continue as the core feature of a diversified livelihood.
• He lost his job and livelihood. The Sun
• The British beef crisis was damaging to the livelihoods of thousands of people in the industry.
• We must change the way we live because pastoralism is no longer viable, and we have to look at other ways of livelihood, said Murugi. Kenya Minister ‘Satisfied’ With Effort to Combat Drought, Famine
• Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
• Without trucked water, the 60,000 chickens that are the livelihood for about 50 of Beit Furiq's several hundred families will die within days. Archive 2009-10-01
• Where fixed property became the chief form of livelihood, monogamy, rather than polygamy, came to predominate due to the need to limit heirs and to discourage divorce.
• They say workers are made to pay with their livelihood for increased profits of corporations.