Sentence examples for * the subsistence from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the subsistence character of farming curtailed internal trade.

Thus, the subsistence theory seemed to fit the facts.

"They can't ignore the subsistence fishers in that river," he said.

(This excludes the subsistence farms where 4m black families eke out a living).

These small individual plots became devoted to the subsistence crops traditionally cultivated by peasants.

In practice it has done nothing for the subsistence farmers of the semi-arido.

Land is scarce for the subsistence farmers who still make up most of Malawi's 16m people.

"Success" is often just a fancy word for "luck," but a recurrence of it suggests the subsistence of design.

Elephants may appear valuable to some, but not to the subsistence farmers who must live alongside them.

An update of the "subsistence-minimum" amount that pensioners receive has been put on hold.

An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence-based Inupiat culture.