Sentence examples for become a subsistence from inspiring English sources

He abandoned academic life in 1991 to become a subsistence farmer and militant pacifist and ecologist.

He abandoned the penniless existence of a subsistence fisherman to become a big-city vegetable seller.

Santa Rosa became a bare subsistence-level encampment with little of what we think of as civil society institutions...and in an active earthquake and hurricane area at that.

With foreign investment scarce and most Cambodians dependent on subsistence farming, tourism has become a prime source of hard currency.

Although not intended as such, for some individuals and groups social assistance has become a more or less permanent solution for their subsistence problems.

Big Night Out sees Martin traveling the planet to discover how partying has become an act of rebellion, subsistence or survival for young people everywhere.

Laughing, he recounted how his father, a subsistence farmer, did not want him to become an athlete.

As feudal lords became profit-minded landlords, peasants moved off the land to become an agricultural proletariat in search of the best wages obtainable, because traditional subsistence was no longer available.

We all go back to subsistence farming and Avicii "Levels" becomes a folk song that people sing to generations after.

And, he should have no reluctance to say so in response to charges that he saved his union supporters, who just happen to be the millions of middle class families whose lives would become subsistence if Romney had had his way.

He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer.