Sentence examples for be subsisting from inspiring English sources

This figure has made it even harder for observers to comprehend how around 520,000 Haitians could still be subsisting under tarpaulin.

It is inconceivable that a similarly afflicted family in the African-American, or Dominican, or Irish, or Italian or Russian-Jewish community would still be subsisting in squalor.

These may seem like small amounts, until you consider households where single parents with two children might be subsisting on food stamps and about $250 in cash payments from the federal public assistance program.

For instance, after outlining his conception of space and time, Kant claims: "Those, however, who assert the absolute reality [absolute Realität] of space and time, whether they take it to be subsisting or only inhering, must themselves come into conflict with the principles [Principien] of experience" (A39/B56).

She says that cacao farmers in West Africa, where about two-thirds of the world's cacao is grown, "are only making a quarter or a third of what they should be, subsisting at the poverty level, at best".

To justifiably say you're so poor you have to extend your eye shadow with Vaseline, you have to be subsisting off individual corn kernels like the pilgrims during the first Plymouth winter.

She's subsisting on cereal!

"Perhaps Nick is subsisting on smugness".

But the family is subsisting rather than living.

The previous week, she had been subsisting mainly on grapefruit juice.

Frank Costa and Derek Hedbany, 18-year-old freshman roommates at New York University, were subsisting on adrenaline and _________.