The phrase "basic sustenance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the bare minimum level of food, water, or other resources necessary to survive. Example: The refugees were provided with basic sustenance, including rice, beans, and clean drinking water, to help them survive in the camp.
Why has it been necessary for Iraq to exchange precious natural resources for basic sustenance?
Three food banks open every week because so many need basic sustenance, a proportion in work, the rest not.
It's an instinct reinforced by religious edicts that forbid the withholding of basic sustenance but allow, for example, unplugging artificial respirators.
I was interested in how far the provision for refugees extended above and beyond basic sustenance and shelter, and what the arguments for this looked like.
What to Do Porgies, striped bass and blue crabs, not basic sustenance anymore, are still fished with passion; many residents own boats.
As with Ariel, her identical-twin sister, Natasha's early vocabulary was mostly English, but the girls used Egyptian Arabic for certain things — colors, animals, basic sustenance.
It's an idea whose time went and has come again: for pennies more than store-bought milk, a punctual human being delivers the most basic of sustenances to a customer's front door.
But the service, if it takes off, could provide more fresh produce in a neighborhood famously devoid of it, and a new model for what, exactly, a food bank is to a community: in this case, another place where people of various incomes would overlap over the same basic desire for sustenance.
The beginnings of a sexual predator, a BALD EAGLES head and the accompanying body suit foundation, Bart Simpson Medicine Algonquin, and a dumb skull head because people like death and Stupid simple shit AND because I have every intention of selling this impersonal work as a means of paying for the basic life amenities, sustenance, and special comfort foods such as lentils and rice.
Not only do the fish provide basic income and sustenance to local people, they are used in fish meal supplying a huge poultry industry in the region and are the only source of food for tens of thousands of seals and sea lions and millions of cormorants, pelicans and penguins.
MM and other members of the community understand that significant investments need to be made for their economic empowerment and they give highest priority at improving the productive capacity of the land, their basic means of sustenance.
