Sentence examples for a better subsistence from inspiring English sources

The farmers are typically poor, and some, caught in a violent world between rebels and paramilitaries, turned to coca to eke out a better subsistence.

Robert Frost: A Life, by Jay Parini (Owl/Holt, $16), is a sympathetic look at the cantankerous New England poet who gave up college (he was a better Latinist than Pound or Eliot) for subsistence farming and part-time teaching.

Moreover, this study has the intention of integration the anthracological record with the archaeological data already published concerning subsistence, technology and paleoecology to a better understanding to human behaviour during this period.

Thanks to the tournament many people here now not only feel they have a better chance of becoming footballers but they now know that if they do not, they want to be something more than subsistence farmers or idlers.

A: Ethnographic studies in Alaska to better understand subsistence; how to preserve the integrity of the hydrological system in the Colorado river; how to deal with disasters like Hurricane Sandy or Deepwater Horizon.

This is the historic price and promise of industrialization: It is no fun, but it is better than subsistence living back on the farm.

China also needs to expand faster than wealthy countries to generate jobs for workers laid off by state-run factories and for farmers flocking to cities to seek something better than subsistence income.

He charged half the £25-a-day subsistence allowance for nights spent away from home.

The new regime ended a £25-a-night "subsistence allowance" MPs could claim without receipts.

The strides they made in the first half of January to cut down on turnovers and play better than subsistence-level defense have given way to chaos, low energy and little ability to direct themselves.

Take-home wages at Sidex average about $150 a month, above Romania's average but still not much better than a subsistence level.