How To Use Subsist In A Sentence

We had to subsist on bread and water.
Up until the 1920s, in the mountain ranges of Westmoreland and south into Fayette, many small farmers subsisted on bear meat, preferable to venison, and considered by many to be juicier and better than beef.
Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave. Times, Sunday Times
They must not demand a very high cash outlay or demand a very high degree of risk thereby endangering subsistence.

In vital activity we see, then, that which subsists of the direct movement in the inverted movement, _a reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself_. Evolution créatrice. English
Their earnings brought them almost 30 percent more than the value of the subsistence provided by their former masters. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
The two bands became docile subsistence farmers on submarginal agricultural land.
But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Fishing is also of major importance, while around 70 percent of the population depend on subsistence agriculture.
Alone among the New Deal agricultural agencies, they provided subsistence and operating credit for farmers.
Others argue that the workshop was only carried out to increase municipal authority over contested forest areas, and the resulting municipal policy failed to reflect the needs of families who require fuelwood for subsistence.
He hadn't been able to work since, and the family subsisted on Social Security disability and Rhonda's paltry earnings as a free-lance editor. Whiplash
The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
The hospitality figures appear within statistics showing what it costs to run the two archbishoprics and other items, including travel and subsistence.
It is entirely to be ascribed to the supplanting, _in the national subsistence, of a large part of home produce by an equally large part of foreign produce_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
It takes around two or three generations of sweatshops to go from the ancient pattern of peasant subsistence farming, with its characteristic grinding toil for women to where the country is now.
Archie had provided a second life for Luther for so long that when Luther cut it off he wasn't able to subsist on what was left. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
They are said to have passed a very "comfortable winter," subsisting largely upon the abundant game found in the new country, the oxen being supplied with plenty of browse from the trees. Living in Dryden: Early settlement
As the goats, taking refuge in the more inaccessible parts of the country, could with difficulty be killed, the crews subsisted on the flesh of the young seals, which they called veal, and on that of the sea-lions, which was denominated beef. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
Students can not only practise the designed experiments in the modules, but also make innovative experiments based on their ideas, subsistent resource and interface in the modules.
Fishing is also of major importance, while around 70 percent of the population depend on subsistence agriculture.
In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming.
farming is a hard means of subsistence
Their only vegetable food is what they obtain from the palm-trees, and they subsist generally on turtle, tortoises, and the flesh of the manatee or cowfish, and other fish, which they spear or take with nets. The Three Lieutenants
Crop yields drop as topsoil is lost, prompting subsistence farmers to clear more land.
California's was the most male of the rushes, though native women were present in the diggings, and Miwok women, for example, took up mining in order to supplement older subsistence strategies.
Bourgeois monetary relations were breaking down the old feudal ties that had existed in England and which had been grounded in a largely subsistence agricultural economy.
Nevertheless, many of the former hunter-gatherers are still reliant on subsistence farming and making craftwork for tourists.
Not so long ago, all six would have been busy at this hour fetching water from distant wells and lugging it back to the small subsistence farms, known as shambas, that dot rural western Kenya.
Church is self-subsisting and not necessarily connected with what they call despotism, begin to regard it as a Divine institution and return to her fold. ' Life of Father Hecker
They were living barely above the level of subsistence.
Costs of living differ radically, and where subsistence production accounts for a large part of the food supply, GNP grossly underestimates wealth.
Wage rates, for many people, have in fact remained at subsistence level.
From thence I propose to move to the neck of Williams - burgh, which is represented as healthy, and where some subsist - ence may be procured; and keep myself unengaged from opera - tions which might interfere with your plan for the campaign, until 1 have the satisfaction of hearing from you. Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States
He is on the margin of bare subsistence.
Now, if to this real in the substance we ascribe a particular existence (for example, to motion as an accident of matter), this existence is called inherence, in contradistinction to the existence of substance, which we call subsistence. The Critique of Pure Reason
Recent research has indicated that the technologically efficient British agriculture was producing, at least in grain, a large surplus over the subsistence needs of its people.
He subsisted mainly on vegetables and fruit.
The celeb who earned the most stars would earn a fully prepared meal, the celeb would earned the second most stars would earn an unprepared meal and the celeb who earned the least stars would earn nothing- and have to subsist on only rice and beans.
Furthermore, it bore coincidental resonance with the nineteenth-century Euro-American pejorative digger, which referred to the supposed cultural inferiority of California's Native Americans, some of whom derived subsistence from the gathering of wild roots. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
Work he will not under any circumstances, but subsists on the hospitality of the whites until he has entirely worn it out and then removes to the natives, mushing from camp to camp and "bumming" his way as he goes. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
It’s not good for China because their GDP/capita is still pretty low (worse than Venezuela’s!), which means there are a ton of people still living in subsistent poverty. The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela
She worked as a cleaning lady, waitress, nursing home aid, only to realize that a single job does not provide enough money for subsistence.
We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
Washington sent a wampum belt and speech to the sachems of the Tuscaroras in August, “to assure you of our real friendship and love—and to confirm & strengthen that chain of friendship, which has subsisted between us for so many ages past.” George Washington’s First War
What TV needs now, in these uncertain times, is dramatic characters like those of Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick ( "Once and Again," "thirtysomething") or on "Brothers and Sisters" — characters who aren't trying to save the world or plunder it, but are just trying to subsist in it. Too Much Of a Bad Thing
Their main mode of subsistence is hunting.
A large part of their effort was devoted to growing subsistence crops, mainly corn. America Past and Present
We know that household and village subsistence economies were predominant in India until at least the early years of the independence era.
Here every community becomes in large measure self-subsistent, and production involves the assignment of a few general roles rather than a number of specific and narrow specialties. Energy and Society~ Chapter 11~ The Organization of Productive Effort
Describing how he built up his wealth through saving and making investments, he said he often did not use his subsistence allowances because he ate meals as a guest of restaurants.
The Inupiaq are an Eskimo group that still relies on a traditional, subsistence lifestyle CNN.com
Forcibly separated from the means of subsistence, by acts of enclosure in England, clearances in Scotland, they had little choice but to work for Gradgrind in his mill.
Li labored all day in the icy cold, subsisted on watery soup, and spent the evenings in exhausting self-criticism sessions or on even more exhausting forced marches.
It then seemed to the classicists that the real wages, or means of subsistence, had to be advanced to the laborers.
They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
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Their main mode of subsistence is hunting.
If the murdered leaves a widow with children, this widow may claim the criminal as her own, and he becomes her husband nominally, that is to say, he must hunt and provide for the subsistence of the family. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
The basis of the economy continues to be rice agriculture, and much of the population farms at a subsistence level, linked by a relatively undeveloped market system for rice, fruits, and vegetables, and using the riel for currency.
The care of the publique must oversway all private interests, for it is a true rule that perticuler estates cannot subsist in the ruinue of the publique." sic It's very difficult to hear the arguments against taxing the inordinately wealthy as reflecting anything of that evangelical sentiment and social imperative. Frank G. Kirkpatrick: Searching For The Common Good In Political Discourse
For him Scottish linen manufacturing and fisheries were ‘the only Means for increasing our Wealth and Numbers, the sole Fund for employing and subsisting the Poor, and our only Stock for Foreign Trade’.
Most notably, the United States has been removing formal requirements for copyright subsistence, in line with the Berne Convention.
He settles for day jobs at the building sites of Tokyo, subsists on freeze-dried noodles and squanders his pay in hostess bars. 05 « December « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon
The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months subsistence, with former employees being thrown into abject poverty.
In a frequently harsh, small-scale subsistence existence, people were all too aware of nature and her awesome powers.
The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed.
The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers.
For a time, beginning in the 1920s, fox fur trading served as a supplement to subsistence.
Only time will tell how long this latest "truce" subsists but it is unquestionable that Iran now has a strong foothold both in Gaza and Yehuda and the Shomron and heaven forefends it may not even need its nuclear capability to inflict heavy loss on Israel. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Such children in rural areas help their parents on subsistence farms, while in the shanty areas of towns school dropouts engage in petty street vending, with the ever present risk of drifting into crime and vice.
Legally, subsistence collection of fuelwood and timber is now more expensive, time consuming, and subject to corruption.
This would be equivalent to the worst form of fiscal imprudence - getting rid of productive assets to meet daily subsistence needs.
Owing to the marked individuality which man exhibits in the selection of his food, and to the intimate relationship subsisting between food and the organism it nourishes, it is impossible to arrange the alimental substances in the strict order of their nutritive values. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
Here's a quick culinary quiz for anyone who spent their college years racking up enough student loan debt to re-decorate a corporate CEO's office bathroom while being forced to subsist on food so vile it would make Upton Sinclair hurl from the grave. Rabbit or Ramen Noodles?
Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
This man, crible de dettes, as he told me, and daily compelled to adopt the most extravagant methods for a bare subsistence, had repeatedly approached me with adventurous schemes for the exploitation of my notorious fiasco. My Life — Volume 2
For three showerless weeks he and a team of researchers surveyed, observed and catalogued the rock, camping under the stars and subsisting on an unlikely diet of cabbage and canned shellfish (nonperishable food items not being a staple of Omani grocery stores). Energy Bulletin -
And their tanks are rainwater tanks and so the amount of water they receive from our header tanks is basically just enough to subsist on until the next big rain event.
At the meantime, we should establish and improve a public fiscal policy, offering basic subsistence allowance for farmers.
Part of the reason sweatshops exist and attract laborers is that life on the garbage heap is even worse, as is the life of a third world subsistence farmer. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No”
An intensive restudy of these collections by Mary Simon, however, indicated no drastic change in subsistence during the Moorehead and Sand Prairie phases.
It was easily possible for entire families to subsist the year around on the fruits of land and water plus unexacting manual labor. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia
These developments all contributed to massive surplus extractions from subsistence producers confined to the reserves.
Andrew Rice makes a good point when he says that foreign investors can bring in new technologies and boost the productivity of underused land to feed not only foreign investors but Africans as well (though the question that follows is whether foreign investors view subsistence farming as "underuse" of land). Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
The bank's lien would, after all, continue only during the subsistence of the debenture, which the debtor would at all times have the right to redeem.
The endemic Ascension frigatebird (Fregata aquila), which subsists on food stolen from other birds, lives on Boatswain Island exclusively now. Ascension scrub and grasslands
If oil entered the lagoons, damage to fish spawning grounds, wildfowl habitat and local commercial and subsistence enterprises could be, literally, incalculable.
These prisoners faced frequent beatings by superiors, subsisted on an inadequate diet, and lacked the clothing or boots needed for working in the cold, rugged terrain.
Their subsistence comes from the sea.
According to these urban sophisticates many of them transplants from the hinterlands themselves, we Hoosiers subsisted on potato-chip casserole. Day of Honey
If men's wages fall below a certain limit, they become tramps, thieves, and robbers; but woman's wages _have no limit_, since she can always work for less than she can subsist upon, the _paths of shame being open to her_. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
And just as we say that fire has brightness [1539] through the light proceeding from it, and do not consider the light of the fire as an instrument ministering to the fire, but rather as its natural force: so we say that the Father creates all that He creates through His Only-begotten Son, not as though the Son were a mere instrument serving [1540] the Father's ends, but as His natural and subsistential force [1541]. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture.
The astounding variety of microbes that subsist on inorganic materials without oxygen could be put to great use in much needed areas such as water treatment, waste disposal and pollution reduction.
County councillors also receive a mileage allowance and overnight subsistence if they attend conferences or go on other council business.
Where subsistence is doled out, the desideratum has been achieved, of general want and a superior power to "relieve" it. You've gone to the best schools, gotten the best grades, now why can't you get a good job being a good person for a good salary?
No, we do not want you to stay as subsistence farmers. Times, Sunday Times
We subsisted on rabbit stew and similar one-pot wonders.
This increased complexity appears to have co-occurred with a change in subsistence patterns, as evidenced by bone chemistry and faunal and artifactual data.
The Old Firm clubs attract a combined attendance of 110,000 to every home game, but subsist on 20 per cent of the television revenue level of Premiership sides.
Although they had provisions to last a few days, they subsisted on bare minimum of rice gruel for energy to stay afloat.
These acts included armed robberies by guerilla groups called repossession units, who were tasked with obtaining weapons and goods for subsistence, by means of armed robbery if necessary. ANC Daily News Briefing
Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
How do they manage to subsist ?
Ah me, that a man be self-subsistent, original, true, or what we call it, is surely the farthest in the world from indisposing him to reverence and believe other men's truth! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Of course, no one is suggesting that Congress subsist on a regular diet of impeachments.
With most campesinos content with this Breughelian subsistence, Peru ends up importing 70 percent of its corn, sugar, potatoes, and rice.
How can you have free trade, and bring the cost of goods down, by giving people wages, which are below the level of subsistence, and maintain that population?
He could subsist on bark and grass roots in the isolated island.
Such children in rural areas help their parents on subsistence farms, while in the shanty areas of towns school dropouts engage in petty street vending.
So, if the statutory provision says that one has the right to go into unenclosed and unimproved land for subsistence purposes, then that is the case, but if there is an enclosure, of course, there is no longer that right.
Thou art called the preceptor that subsists only on the froth of water. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
After all, a denarius is a daily wage, and a subsistence wage at that. Vindicated
If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine. In the Desert, Prime Time
It was unsalaried, and he and his family subsisted on their savings.
Nonetheless, by the 1970s it was increasingly difficult for Mayas to continue their mixed subsistence economy, living off the land through horticulture, hunting, and selling of natural resources such as honey and chicle.
“This may suggest a climatic change and or a shift in subsistence strategies.” Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps | Impact Lab
I wonder if these were partly caused by the urban residents themselves who have long since shown little concern, even disdain, for those who trade physical labour for subsistence.
The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
The quartermaster division has three sections: quartermaster; petroleum, oils, and lubricants; and subsistence.
In addition, women took a predominant role in subsistence activities. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
That there is more than this accordancy of will and affection in the Divine subsistence of the Father, the Son, and the Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.
The Archaic tradition is subdivided into early, middle, and late stages based on variations in technology, mortuary behavior, and subsistence.
The problem, I submit, is in using words like "subsist" which can mean different things to different people and whether these different meanings were intended by the drafters of the documents. Cardinal Schönborn: Out of the loop?
Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
We found a pastoral scene of verdant meadows and a scattered population of seminomadic Kyrgyz - Islamic subsistence farmers who come here in summer, tending yaks and cows.
Theology on two archaic ideas which had already been condemned by enlightened Athenians of the fourth century before our era, _ideas which no one would dream of upholding in these days, though the structure built upon them still subsists_. The Necessity of Atheism
N.B. The distinctities in the 'pleroma' are the eternal ideas, the subsistential truths; each considered in itself, an infinite in the form of the finite; but all considered as one with the unity, the eternal The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People with gluttonish inclinations can easily and do make themselves sick while subsisting on an entirely fruit diet; hence, if discretion is needed in the use of the simplest articles of food, of course it cannot be dispensed with while indulging in other sorts. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.
The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.
Their account of the shipwreck in Bermuda does not explain how the leader of the expedition managed to restore control when the island offered land for the taking and ready means of subsistence.
The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.
Colonel Hamilton Smith, the able writer on dogs, does not acknowledge some of these wild races, but thinks they are what he calls feral, or domestic dogs which have regained their liberty, and have subsisted for many generations on their own intelligence. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
Their parents fished along the Luapula river and cultivated seasonal crops on subsistence smallholdings, so purchasing expensive textbooks was out of the question.
By the late 1990s, about four-fifths of the population made their living doing subsistence agriculture in the jungles and highland forests.
The means of subsistence were practically the same as those of to-day, except that cattle-raising was more general.
These creatures, rather sentimentally modeled on popular notions of Native American and African tribes, are presented as being wholly in tune with nature -- as preagricultural hunter-gatherers who subsist on the flesh of the animals they kill by means of their remarkable skill at archery. 'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'
Improving the genetic potential of broilers was essential in transforming chicken farming from basically a subsistence-farming afterthought to a $28 billion-a-year industry.
Either it is a well-arranged universe or a chaos huddled together, but still a universe. But can a certain order subsist in thee, and disorder in the All?
Most of the population lives at subsistence level.
The decline in subsistence production for domestic consumption means that people are doubly disappointed, as they need to buy rice and have no income.
Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
They call the system of having each producer buck and doe in separate cubicles "subsistence rabbitry" because they cannot make enough with that system to expand. 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
Freegans in New York and Seattle claim to have subsisted for years by dining out surreptitiously at their neighbourhood dumpsters, undermining meal by meal the evil corporations' irresponsible pursuit of profit.
Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market power, they are reduced to a subsistence existence and forced to part with the surplus product.
They had no need to conspire in the expropriation of the means of subsistence by capitalists, because a free labor market was in place.
The film itself is not an event, but is merely another actualisation of the pure event which subsists in the actualisation.
In general, FSA personnel helped clients to develop farm plans that moved them away from cash crop agriculture toward a mixed livestock and subsistence economy.
There is no distinct boundary between the perceived and the apperceived, and Wundt's analogy may be misleading [50] to the extent that it gives the impression of two separable forms of attention able in principle to subsist together simultaneously (that is, apperception focusing upon a point in the perceptual field while that field continues to be perceived). Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
Genuine land reform is not about breaking up highly productive commercial farms into little plots for subsistence farmers.
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Congress had allocated General Sherman, whose brother John was a US senator, some five hundred thousand dollars for subsisting the needy Indians under the area encompassed by his Department of the Missouri.
The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
No one complained of being late for work: most of the residents were unemployed and had lived here for years without visible means of subsistence.
Don't worry about your children whom I can subsist.
He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms.
The town subsists on farming, the craft industry and a small retail trade.
Here came the subsistence farmers, whose hardscrabble plots had borne little during this dry year. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
The issues to be resolved range from the grander puzzles of human evolution and speciation to parochial matters of subsistence and trade.
About half the people eat rice as their staple, while the remainder subsist on wheat, barley, maize, and millet.
They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
She had no means of subsistence and was dependent on charity.
The average citizen, however, is fortunate if they provide him with subsistence.
And if such a community can exist even though in schism from that visible body wherein the Church of Christ is said to "subsist", that is an admission that the body of Christ can be divided while remaining on both sides of the divide truly the Catholic Church. The new CDF document on ecclesiology
A large part of their effort was devoted to growing subsistence crops, mainly corn. America Past and Present
The cast members will be subsisting on 1897 type supplies: canvas tents, no mosquito repellent, canned and dry goods.
They have a fallback in subsistence production and other cash crops, such as cocoa and copra.
Subsistence-netters use small boats to gather the fish and bring them to the shore while others wade into the water to collect fish in buckets and plastic bags.
'ALLOWING for the imperfect state of sublunary happiness, which is comparative at best, there are not, perhaps, many nations existing whose situation is so desirable; where the means of subsistence are so easy, and the wants of the people so few … The evident distinction of ranks, which subsists at Otaheite, does not so materially affect the felicity of the nation as we might have supposed. Letter 63
They subsisted mostly on big maggots, called grubs, fatty pig, and sago palm, a starch. Intermittent fasting guest blog | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Tenet of enterprise: Pursue subsistence on quality, development on variety and create credit on service.
Nec non Salomon inter multa hoc quoque munus a Deo accepit ut sciret violentias spirituum; non aliud in hoc se accepisse demonstrans, quam scire rapidos ventorum flatus, et quibus causis eorum natura subsistat. Pneumatologia
When it does reach the genuinely needy, it frequently destroys fragile local economies, turning subsistence farmers into beggars. The Sun
To repeat: the country is rich, beautiful, and densely populated, subsistence abundant, and the roads -- all macadamized highways; thus the conditions; are altogether different from those existing with us. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
We subsisted on little food, clothing and medical care. Ralph Levenberg: Congress Is Missing in Action for the POWs/MIAs
The blame for the eviction of 350 "campesino" families from the 14 acre subsistence South Central Farm in Los Angeles on June 13, 2006 can be pointed towards a number of corrupt Los Angeles politicians, but one stands above all others. Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
The alien in inshore employed in china should also consult the security of subsistence of this law take part in our country.
For if, when the sun is shining upon a tree, the axe should cleave the tree, and, nevertheless, the sun remains uncleft and void of passion, much more will the passionless divinity of the Word, united in subsistence to the flesh, remain void of passion when the body undergoes passion [2233]. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
He lost an eye and both hands while on missionary work in Afghanistan and has had to subsist on benefits ever since.
In proportion as a woman subsists upon aliment which is free from earthy and bony matter will she avoid pain and danger in delivery; hence, the more ripe fruit, acid fruit in particular, and the less of other kinds of food, but particularly of bread or pastry of any kind, is consumed, the less will be the danger and sufferings of childbirth. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
Cities draw people away from subsistence farming, which is ecologically devastating, and they defuse the population bomb.
Often have we occasion to behold great and afflicting re* verses in the external circumstances of opulent families, and miserable are they who have not been taught with virtuous equanimity to bear them, or who liave no re - sources in their own faculties, bodily, or mental, to apply them to other means of subsistence. The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ...
His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
a subsistent diet of beans and rice
The inhabitants of the forest area subsist on cassava, bananas, plantains, palm-nut-oil, forest caterpillars, and the leaf of a wild plant (koko).
“From your labors,” was he accustomed to say, (and to say with truth, if not with sincerity,) “from your labors we receive our subsistence; you derive your tranquillity from our vigilance: since, therefore, we are mutually necessary to each other, let us live together like brothers in concord and love.” The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
That preliminary record is then published with the object of inviting comments and objections from persons interested either in the subsistence of the right of way or to deny its subsistence.
The emphasis on projects to help small-scale producers go beyond mere subsistence farming is increasing. Times, Sunday Times
In this type of subsistence farming rice was the most important crop and several of the 92 recognized rice varieties were planted in new swiddens.
A micro-credit scheme allowed many villagers to lift themselves out of subsistence level poverty. Times, Sunday Times
A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves.
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As to his subsistence during these rambles, it would be very difficult to say how he managed that affair, at these, or indeed at any other times; and it may be that the prophetic limitation of a fast to forty days is now the urgent occasion of his return from vagabondism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
They were living barely above the level of subsistence.

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