Sentence examples for It has subsisted from inspiring English sources

That is a new realm for the company, since it has subsisted until now on fees charged to users for downloading sheet music and a small number of guitar tablatures generated by publishing houses.

Robert Murtha said he is not at liberty to discuss in detail what his company does, but for four years it has subsisted on defense contracts, according to records and interviews.

The species' decline coincided with the logging of virgin forest, where it had subsisted on deadwood insects.

The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and instead of enquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

It had subsisted quietly and modestly until two weeks previously, when someone wrote a paragraph about the restaurant in a local paper, raving about a south Vietnamese speciality called Bò luôc Xuan dào.

White describes this as a disastrous fall: "Thus fell the considerable and well-endowed priory of Selborne after it had subsisted about two hundred and fifty-four years; about seventy-four yeafterfthe the suppression of priories alien by Henry V., and about fifty years before the general dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII".

For the past two months, by necessity, I've subsisted on a steady diet of restaurant fare, which has been an excellent tutorial on the possibilities of Baltic herring, salmon and reindeer.

For too long, the Met has subsisted as a tautology: it presents grand opera on a grand scale because that is what the Met has always done.

For decades, Microsoft has subsisted on the milk of its two cash cows: Windows and Office.

If the subscription option catches on, it could herald a huge change for the online video industry, which has subsisted almost entirely on advertising revenue.

Giambi has subsisted mostly on protein shakes during his illness.