Sentence examples for at the subsistence from inspiring English sources
Karl Marx, an advocate of the labour theory of value, believed that wages were held at the subsistence level by the existence of a large number of unemployed.
The report asks: "With the models employed, are smallholders able fully to participate in the market, or are most still mainly at the subsistence level?" However, the contrast between subsistence agriculture ("bad") and market participation and commodity production ("good") is not a straightforward one.
Peasants and factory workers living at the subsistence level can hardly save enough to go into business.
Because 80% of this production was consumed by households, such ponds, producing easily harvestable small tilapia, have a role in supplementing household diets and contributing to improved nutrition at the subsistence level.
Most agriculture is done at the subsistence scale by local farmers using simple tools.
It is mainly produced at the subsistence level for local household consumption, with only about 20% of rural households selling some of their maize after satisfying their household needs.
Many farmers had long existed at virtually the subsistence level, given the small size of their allotments and the various hardships that the land presented for farming in some regions.
By the end of Orban's first term in 2014, a third of the population was living at or below the subsistence level, child poverty was growing faster than in any other country in the European Union, and more than a fourth of citizens were "seriously deprived" (unable to pay for rent, heat, or groceries).
At that time, the subsistence livelihoods of the Oeledo villagers depended on small fishing boats and Lontard or Palmyra palm trees (Borassus flabellifer) [6] visible in the background of the photograph in Figure 1(a).
The oil business -- both selling it overseas and importing gasoline from abroad (because Iran's refining capacity provides only 40 percent of its fuel needs) -- is at the heart of the subsistence of the regime of the mullahs.
At the same time, the subsistence was altered.
