Sentence examples for a form of livelihood from inspiring English sources

Faced with what the historian Lawrence Langer called "choiceless choices," the chairman's nightmarish dream was to make the Jewish work force indispensable, to convert the ghetto into a form of livelihood.

It becomes more difficult if the survival of the groups is largely dependent on a form of livelihood.

Traditionally, such indigenous knowledge, which is often regarded as spiritual, is closely guarded by such families, and is only passed on down the generation line to members of the family who use the knowledge and skills as a form of livelihood when they serve society as traditional medical consultants.

Besides small-scale mining, subsistence farming is a major form of livelihood amidst logging and timber.

However, very high or eroding conditions of human insecurity especially in relation to infrastructural deficit and inequality, for instance in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, make it increasingly difficult for groups to negotiate new foundations for cohesion and peace, especially where group survival is highly dependent on a particular form of livelihood that is specific to one group.

The key is to offer "an alternate form of livelihood for people, aside from scratching a living from the government or the black market," adds Dana R. Dillon, senior Asian studies analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

A number of these women are mothers and sex work is their only form of livelihood, so arrest can lead to their children being left at home alone, forced to fend for themselves for days on end.

Pamalakaya, a locally formed fishermen's alliance, has rallied against the policy, saying it would destroy their only form of livelihood.

As in many developing countries, agro-pastoralism is the major form of livelihood for rural communities in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.

It was calculated in 1991 that 320,000 families or rural units depend on goat husbandry as their main form of livelihood ([INEGI, 2005]).

Community-based Ecotourism is increasingly recognized as a form of sustainable development designed to promote local livelihood, environmental conservation and culture.