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.

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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.
The livelihoods of many thousands of people depend on their success and they must succeed to ensure survival.
Overgrazing and climate change have inflicted enormous damage on the grasslands that provide their livelihood. Times, Sunday Times
A few days back, I discussed "getting Zumboed", which is the term gun geeks use for "so outraging the community of one's customers that the backlash jeopardizes one's livelihood. More on getting Zumboed
He was a seventh child and his mother, left a widow in early life and compelled to earn her livelihood, saw scant chance of educating him when the kindly assistance of a Canon of the Cathedral and President of the Collége de Noyon relieved her difficulties. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The new law threatens the livelihood of thousands of farmers.
Free labour merges imperceptibly with slavery; work becomes servitude; livelihood is transformed into strange new forms of bondage.
The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood. The Price She Paid.
The Yamal Nenets case study (Chapter 12) is of interest because it focuses, like the Finnmark study, on a reindeer herding livelihood with a history of adaptive management during times of change. Understanding and assessing climate change vulnerabilities in the Arctic through case studies
It's difficult to earn a livelihood as an artist.
Translators do not yet perceive computers as a threat to their livelihood.
He is talking about people in mid-20th century harvesting a substantial part of their sustenance and livelihood from fish, game and furbearers.
'Is father' ad a barrer, thet were what _'is_ father did for a livelihood, an '' is mother were up afore the beaks for poppin 'shirts what she'd took in to wash. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
The move augurs disaster for pastoralism in the sub-continent, it is a mode of violence against the lives and livelihoods of several thousand rural households.
A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood. Oh! Ouch! �Ay! The first really bad news from Mexico
Corporate agriculture is turning family and peasant farmers from stewards of the land into servants, or eradicating their livelihoods completely.
It's difficult to earn a livelihood as an artist.
And as the palls of smoke from the pyres on which animals are being incinerated spread, the livelihood of countless farmers hangs in the balance.
It is a very real one that will affect the livelihoods of millions of people in Europe. Times, Sunday Times
They were always careful not to saw away the branch upon which their own livelihood was precariously, if tenaciously, hanging.
Football is only a game, but it is big business and livelihoods depend on it. Times, Sunday Times
Land reforms enacted without attendant and well-planned services and inputs are unlikely to be able to generate sustainable livelihoods.
The President was infuriated that government efforts to eradicate poverty and improve livelihoods were undermined by what he called cancerous corruption that had eaten into government departments. New Vision Frontpage News
Then the pope, considering the great perils that might ensue by his departing, dispensed with him, and assoiled him of his avow, of which he sent to him a bull under lead, and enjoined him in penance to give the goods that he should have spent in his pilgrimage, to deeds of charity, and to re-edify some church of S. Peter, and endow it with sufficient livelihood. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
Their livelihoods may depend on it. Times, Sunday Times
Among his solutions is ‘livelihood insurance,’ or policies that pay off if a bet on a pioneering career fails to work out.
Like thousands of others in this devastated city, this woman has lost all her wares and livelihood, in one terrifying morning of wholesale destruction.
Fishing is the main source of livelihood for many people in the area.
This is just one of the workers who depends on this industry for a livelihood.
She gave myself and my crew a livelihood and we depended on her for our safety, but it is time to move on.
By the 15th century, scholars as great as Maharal earned their livelihoods as professional shadchanim.
In this year's tripartite elections, we as nation must ensure that people and issues that affect their livelihood should be at the centre of the campaigns.
Apart from these changes effectively doing away with my livelihood (already reduced somewhat due to the Motor Accident changes) my fear is that workers genuinely injured are going to be uncompensated.
It offered a massive package of financial stimulus measures to improve the economy and livelihood of the people.
Britain does itself no favors by complaining about a falling share price and lost dividends while eleven Americans lie dead, thousands of Gulf Coast residents have lost their livelihood, and innumerable wildlife wash up ashore drenched in BP guck. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: BP, Gadhafi, and Britain's Oil Comeuppance
What a deal of money did Henry VIII. and Francis I. king of France, spend at that [1719] famous interview? and how many vain courtiers, seeking each to outbrave other, spent themselves, their livelihood and fortunes, and died beggars? Anatomy of Melancholy
For centuries the nomadic Tsaatan people have roamed the taiga of northern Mongolia, raising the reindeer that provide their livelihood.
Farmers whose sheep graze the surrounding hills fear their own livelihoods may be jeopardised by the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
One of the Internet group tried to ask her whether the term piracy was appropriate, but she insisted that it was because people's livelihoods were at stake. Techdirt
Monday's bipartisan pact calls for, among other things, placing the public's livelihood at the top of the political agenda by reinvigorating the economy and creating jobs.
It's true the timber trade provides a livelihood for some inhabitants of the region, but not for long.
By this perverseness of integrity he was driven out a commoner of nature, excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity, and reduced to pick up a livelihood uncertain and fortuitous; but it must be remembered that he kept his name unsullied, and never suffered himself to be reduced, like too many of the same sect, to mean arts and dishonourable shifts. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
Hymenoptera is a close relationship insect group in human production and livelihood.
Viewing the drama and the playhouses as destructive of virtue and provocative of vice, the Puritans wished to close them down - a threat to Shakespeare's art and livelihood.
The claim of the plaintiff, who is a married woman, to be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law, is based upon the supposed right of every person, man or woman, to engage in any lawful employment for a livelihood. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
You really do not expect a fellow human being to wantonly attack your livelihood with such punishing vigour and regularity.
Organised agriculture in the Western Cape on Tuesday launched a code of conduct committing farmers to promoting "decent livelihoods" for their workers and eliminating the "dop" system. ANC Daily News Briefing
His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital.
After the oil spill, thousands of fishermen stand to lose their livelihoods.
Now we have an alternate livelihood programme that has started targeting the weavers and spinners in Srinagar.
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Aside their interest in the safety education, which was evident in the large turn-out, they were eager to have answers to issues that bother on their means of livelihood and what they described as incessant harassment from security agencies. Undefined
But their livelihood has been thrown into uncertainty by the threat of US strikes on Afghanistan and the near certainty that their business will slump as a result.
The workers said the campaign was attracting bad publicity for their company and putting their livelihoods at risk.
The intermit of credit card business besides bank of the people's livelihood pay treasure to trade beyond , other bank still maintains move and the collaboration that pay treasure.
It also set up local governing organizations and cooperatives, that have allowed the peasants to attain more control of their lives and livelihood.
Here, this spill has not just damaged livelihoods. It's upended whole communities.
Many guild regulations and privileges were designed to protect independent artisanal status, that is, to guarantee each master a modest but secure livelihood, appropriate to his station in life.
Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons. Chapter 8
Contemporary London a photonegative of Early Modern London: a central area in which people live (now: in which livelihoods are pursued), surrounded by a ring in which livelihoods are pursued (now: where people live). Modern London
His 'bursaries' (scholarships or exhibitions), on which he had been passing rich, expired, and he had to earn a livelihood. Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir
He said local people, mostly Hindu adherents, were committed to adopting a peaceful approach to deal with the blasts despite the fact that the tragedy had seriously affected tourism, which most local people rely on for a livelihood.
As well as people losing their homes and livelihoods there is the drastic affect this will have on the environment. The Sun
My thoughts are with those who have lost family or friends, whose homes or livelihoods have been damaged, and those displaced. The Sun
It became a cautionary tale of how overfishing could destroy people's livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
Their livelihood does not depend on obtaining an artistic identity and a personal following. Cultural Anthropology
Then the river was full of fish: some went fishing for their livelihood: some for amusement: salmon were plentiful and great fish such as porpoises sometimes found their way above Bridge. The History of London
The simple lending and savings schemes described as ‘micro-financing’ or ‘micro-credit’ in officialese, is seen as the viable solution to livelihood where poverty is the overriding factor.
Players are intelligent, have vision and an incredible grasp of reality because it's called livelihood.
You want to be there for the children but this is our livelihood, our career.
Thousands of journalists, TV producers and sundry hangers-on depend for their livelihoods on a good election.
A livelihood is eked out from terraced plots, but every available patch of land is farmed.
They looted; they killed; they deprived innocent people of their homes and their livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
He, is an introspective artist whose success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors.
Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
Despite this scientific evidence, we continue to see governments around the world remove people from forests or prohibit them from pursuing their traditional tree-based agroforestry livelihoods.
The sort of job it is, means you're the person that whenever you go out to the farmer, he is putting all his confidence in you, trusting you with his livelihood.
He fooled around with plenty of other sports before settling on tenpins as his livelihood.
In a sense, messengers have a lot in common with lumberjacks, since in both cases their livelihoods have become the basis for competitions, and one might go so far as to say that the alleycat is the "lumberjack competition" of the cycling world. Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs?
Page 36 men "with a direct view to gaining a livelihood;" Barrett Wendell wrote in the North American Review in 1904 on "Our National Superstition" in which he pointed to the "flabbiness" of college students. Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina
Farmers whose sheep graze the surrounding hills fear their own livelihoods may be jeopardised by the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
‘Right Livelihood’ means avoiding trade in arms, prostitution, animal slaughter and it also broadens out into how one shares one's life with others.
The ban on planting Barbary has been lifted in many communities where wheat production is not a livelihood.
Security is vitally important to this sign, and unless all other factors in a horoscope chart indicate artistic talent, these individuals will probably be drawn to a more stable livelihood.
The dole, in other words, was counterproductive; it tended to “impair that anxiety for a livelihood which is almost instinctive”; giving out money could “relax individual exertion by unnerving the arm of industry.” A History of American Law
Hundreds of thousands of working people have lost their jobs and livelihoods.
The plan will provoke uproar in the fishing industry, which argues that a blanket ban would destroy fishermen's livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
The Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) today warned about a dramatic rise in black economy activities and the re-emergence of a 'nixer' culture, which is undermining legitimate businesses, threatening jobs and livelihoods in the process. Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
People's livelihoods are being affected. Times, Sunday Times
Though, forsooth, little matter was it to any man there whether Turk or Magyar was their over-lord, since to one master or another they had to pay the due tale of labouring days in the year, and hard was the livelihood that they earned for themselves on the days when they worked for themselves and their wives and children.
The club might not be in existence by the end of the season and ultimately it is our livelihoods and careers that are at stake.
For those 1.6 billion people, mainly in the developing world, off-grid energy is the key to a modern livelihood and participation in the global community. Let the Market Pay for Renewable Energy
People do work without the institutional system of capitalism and they are assured of a reasonable livelihood.
People lost their jobs and livelihoods because of the bank's failure. Times, Sunday Times
For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca.
Our cultures, livelihoods, businesses, and coastal communities depend on it.
A union statement said business conglomerates were threatening the livelihood of casual workers by mass lay-offs and unilateral termination of contracts.
The newcomers directly threaten the livelihood of the established workers.
However much some aspects of their social life and means of livelihood may overlap with their own, the Irish and some of the Scottish Travellers are gorgios, not Romanichals.
Correct livelihood or occupation (Samyag-ajiva), avoiding immoral occupations, such as prostitute, slaughterer, hunter, dealer in alcohol or weaponry or narcotics … Undefined
Most of the people here depend on tourism for their livelihood.
Wild boar and deer could eat his livelihood. Times, Sunday Times
In the 1990s, when increasingly stringent regulations to protect the fisheries were being imposed, tempers among trawlermen who felt their livelihoods threatened often became frayed, leading to high-profile confrontations.
The coastal region is home to sea birds and marine life that provide livelihoods for many people in the commercial fishing and tourist industries.
Few of those who lost their homes or livelihoods were insured for flood damage. Times, Sunday Times
With our livelihood coming from food service it is necessary to find a way to integrate our work with our ministry.
In many tribes, political positions, as well as trades and livelihoods, also are hereditary.
He finds himself giving advice and telling homiletic stories (remembered from his mother's knee), then fasting to bring an end to the drought which endangers the livelihood of the villagers.
But today it's hard to conceive of Edmontonians forfeiting their own livelihoods to benefit everyone, including strangers in a different province.
Oh yeah, your dad is still kicking your ass, your livelihood is threatened by a fickle public, and the pressure is on you to do something to stay relevant ... remain desirous ... Archive 2009-08-01
As far as livelihood is concerned, the Almighty gives it to both the believers and the non-believers.
Within 30 years 120,000 people were working on spinning mules across the UK and it was estimated that 700,000 depended on them indirectly for their livelihood.
The Hawes creamery says the animated duo's first feature film has helped protect the livelihoods of the 200 local people employed at the creamery and the 34 dairy farmers in the area.
Fishing is the main source of livelihood for many people in the area.
he could no longer earn his own livelihood
Foot-and-mouth won't just destroy my livelihood - it would kill off a whole line of blackface sheep that I can trace back over the years.
Yet realistically this dilemma is likely to be brief as long as employers hold the key to one's livelihood rather than the professional association.
Wild boar and deer could eat his livelihood. Times, Sunday Times
Others helped have been animal hauliers and relief milkers, whose livelihood has been halted by the outbreak.
They are easier to manipulate, they have less money and depend on the Bank largely for their livelihood.
Consider yourself lucky that you weren't a 19th-century lacemaker whose livelihood depended on their near vision. Times, Sunday Times
When some people will not have enough to eat this year, it may seem selfish to bewail the loss of a small subsidised poetry publisher; but in fact several livelihoods are involved here; most of the others have closed down already – five in one week last year – and food for the mind and spirit is also very important. Letters: Short-sighted and dangerous cuts to the arts
Both their livelihoods depend on the ability to bluff and sniff out fraud.
They lost their liberty, their livelihoods, their communities, and their possessions.
Such an interference by a local authority with the right of a person to pursue his livelihood without express statutory sanction raises an issue of fundamental principle.
The Ndola Women and Youth Resource Centre facilitates a number of livelihood programmes which include brick making, pottery, agriculture, tailoring, carpentry and others.
But while leading figures in other sports often speak out on matters that affect their livelihoods, footballers hush up or are airbrushed into meaningless platitudes.
The villagers' livelihoods depend on the rains. Times, Sunday Times
Of course many fishermen are against this because their livelihood depends on it.
Yet realistically this dilemma is likely to be brief as long as employers hold the key to one's livelihood rather than the professional association.
Safeguarding the livelihood of the people should be the ruling party's long-term cornerstone," Mr. Bo said in a speech late last month. China Executes Chongqing's Former Justice Chief
I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood.
Public assertions of such discreditable conduct threaten reputation and professional livelihood.
The trials have provoked fierce opposition from local people, particularly organic farmers and beekeepers who fear for their livelihood.
Principally publicans and restaurateurs, who believe that their livelihood is directly threatened.
For thirty years Australian meatworkers have been picketing ships and wharves in an effort to protect their livelihoods from the live sheep export trade.
And people's businesses, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed in the process. The Sun
The Pembrokeshire Shell Fishermen's Association challenge the claim, and warn that any such ban will threaten the livelihoods of locals.
Bates says he will lose his livelihood if his driving licence is taken away.
Bangladeshi woman dries cakes of cow manure which she sells as her livelihood near the Buriganga river in Dhaka December 13,2005.
But some boatmen fear the new regulations could destroy their livelihoods.
Their livelihood depends on quick and efficient crossings of the Channel. Times, Sunday Times
The Eightfold Path is a multifaceted guide to nirvana that relies on wisdom (right view and intention); ethics (right speech, action & livelihood); and mind (right effort, mindfulness & concentration). Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
She graduated from the renowned Boston's Girls' High School and shortly thereafter pursued stenography for a livelihood.
Article 29 The partitioning of a decedent's estate shall be conducted in a way beneficial to the requirements of production and livelihood; it shall not diminish the usefulness of the estate.
Though the rodeo was an event for New Yorkers to gawk at starting at $15 a ticket, bull riding is a family tradition and a serious livelihood for many of the riders. Roping and Riding
First, people living in the Arctic, particularly indigenous peoples with subsistence livelihoods, have historically experienced a high degree of climate variability, and their ability to adapt to varying climate, from seasonal to interannual, is part of their culture. Candidate vulnerability case studies for climate change in the Arctic
The floods have had a severe effect on the livelihoods of truck farmers in the area.
In India, World Bank financing under an on-going project has already helped fishermen in the state of Andhra Pradesh resume their livelihoods.
Worst case scenarios predict that hundreds of thousands of Balinese who depend on the tourism sector could lose their livelihood.
These poor souls also need investments to enable them to find jobs to earn a livelihood.
“In short, book-writing is a worse-than-ever means to a livelihood, and mass-market renown is disappearing as a concept, fractioning into a million niches”. Book Expo America: From Someone Who Wasn't There - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
Fishing is the main source of livelihood for many people in the area.
They depend on it for their livelihood as they collect rubber latex from the Hevea brazilensis trees.
Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.
These actions nearly brought about the ruination of the association and the destruction of members' livelihoods.
This is my livelihood, my job and my life. Times, Sunday Times
They have been adept at adjusting to changes that had been widely expected to cut into their livelihood - ranging from the end to fixed commissions in 1975 to decimalization.
I would never ask another professional to put his livelihood on the line.
She must make the butter and the cheese, grind the wheat in the quern, make and bake the bread, and in all ways earn her livelihood hard enough. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Most Muslims believe that major events such as life, death, marriage and livelihood, if not all that happens to them, are due to God's will and preordainment, and that they are virtually, if not totally, powerless in influencing the course of such events. Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real?
There could be initial resistance from local shops if it looks like their livelihood could be affected; this needs careful consideration. Life Without Work
The livelihoods of 6,000 people are on a knife-edge, as they wait to be told if Rover can continue as a going concern.
Some lectures concern the jobs or livelihoods of the listeners at the lecture.
De Irwyn, the secretary and armorbearer of Robert Bruce; but at the time of the birth of William Irving its fortunes had gradually decayed, and the lad sought his livelihood, according to the habit of the adventurous Orkney Islanders, on the sea. Washington Irving
Instead, able-bodied men in their thousands had leave to seek a livelihood abroad.
He bore a name renowned in the past, but his home being turned into a dust-heap under which his money, papers and furniture, his two parents and brothers, are still lying, he now gains a livelihood by carrying vegetables and fruit from the harbour to the collection of sheds honoured by the name of market. Old Calabria
And the personal stakes are very high: these members' jobs, livelihoods and entire careers depend on being reselected. Politics live blog - Monday 15 November
Many ship workers could lose their livelihoods because of falling orders for new ships.
The livelihood of most peasant families was an amalgam of makeshifts.
They left their hometowns or villages and came to Mumbai to earn a livelihood, so you can't expect them to just pack up and go back.
The incidence of business failures provides a vivid reminder of how fundamentally corporate activity affects the lives and livelihoods of people and communities worldwide.
Holy indifference requires to be taught in conjunction not merely with a set of commandments prohibiting crimes, but also with a clear conception of what in Buddha's Eightfold Path is called "right livelihood. The Perennial Philosophy
The paramilitaries killed birds, cattle and domestic animals and took away people's means of livelihood, including all the boats and the outboard motors.
There are the old women flower sellers searching for the cheapest blossoms that with their blarney must earn them their livelihood.
Reduce this by the costs and you will find the net value, while it can maintain some livelihoods, will not impact much on our GDP.
The Pembrokeshire Shell Fishermen's Association challenge the claim, and warn that any such ban will threaten the livelihoods of locals.
While there are no known implications for human health, campaigners say the practice is ruining the marine environment and destroying the livelihoods of local fishermen. Times, Sunday Times
The charity is also doing many of the basic things to help those who suddenly find themselves displaced without money, a home or a livelihood. Times, Sunday Times
A programme of counselling and strict supervision of the future behaviour, accompanied by a fine or suspension, would have better fitted the crime than the peremptory expulsion and removal of the men's livelihoods.
As households began to accumulate larger cattle herds, cattle assumed an increasingly important role not only as the principal anchor of agrarian livelihoods but also as the primary means of expressing intercommunity relationships and political power, notably power over people through the transfer of cattle as bridewealth. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Farming is his sole livelihood.
He said many of his fellow shrimpers lost their lives when they stayed aboard their boats during the storm in a futile attempt to save their livelihoods.
She claims compensation for irreparable effects of the assaults on her mental condition and their consequent effect on her ability to earn her future livelihood.
That could affect your livelihood. Times, Sunday Times
Kathy says that despite the threats and intimidation, she and Dennis stuck it out on the farm for so long because it was their home, their livelihood and they had faith that things would turn out okay.
It is indicative of the thorough mess Britain's farmers are in when a beef crisis tax threatens the livelihood of pork producers.
A country bumpkin who had stolen a bag of potatoes, perhaps, soon learned the theory of picking pockets and the art of garotting in these places, and being unequal to the former he would adopt the latter as a means of earning a livelihood. Six Years in the Prisons of England
Translators do not yet perceive computers as a threat to their livelihood.
If we were to compare him, to some extent with Tariq Aziz, the Former Iraqi Foreign Minister and the 'public face' of Former Saddam Hussain's Regime, McClellan, does owe the people of the United States and Iraq and the world an explanation as to why he served an Administration which made war on another country, at such a high cost in wastage of human lives, livelihood and national resources. Blitzer: Most explosive charges I can remember
Most Quechua rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood.

How To Use Livelihood In A Sentence

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