Sentence examples for Subsist from inspiring English sources

But in the second way, 'immaterial' is said of subsistent forms forms that subsist without matter like angels or spiritual substances in general.

Italos' terminology here clearly shows the influence of the Christian Fathers, and in particular of John of Damascus, who in his Dialectica draws just this distinction between subsistences, things that subsist in something else, and things that do not subsist.

We subsist happily with several varieties of e-coli living in our gut.

If the enlargement of NATO and the EU is erecting a new border between east and west, Slovakia is placing itself decidedly on the eastern side.Still, it would be misleading to paint a picture of the Czechs gorging themselves on cherries while Slovaks subsist on the thinnest of gruel.

More than two-fifths of all Africans still subsist on $1.25 a day.

They figured that the demons would not be able to subsist by themselves.

First, a huge expansion of open-ended welfare in the 1960s enabled mothers to subsist without work.

If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar.

That is based on the estimated market value of the fish and thatch they take to subsist, and the gums, oils and other goods they harvest for cash.

Half of them subsist on the equivalent of 65 cents a day or less.

The 50,000 native Socotris, speaking four dialects of a singsong ancient language unintelligible to other Yemenis, subsist on fish, goats and not much else.