Sentence examples for cannot subsist from inspiring English sources

Man cannot subsist on glamour alone, and Cannes knows it.

Second, there is a cutoff value for the soil moisture, below which vegetation cannot subsist.

However, Babbage will concede that man cannot subsist on such an ethereal diet for long.

While the bigger pasta companies cannot subsist on Italian wheat alone, for smaller manufacturers, it is an increasingly appealing option.

Long term, Egypt cannot subsist on handouts and needs to develop a real economy to provide jobs, education and other opportunities to its people.

"A policeman is paid only 4,200 rupees [$84] a month, and a man with a family cannot subsist on this," he said.

"They make you suspected," he said, "even by those who cannot possibly subsist without your succour". The assembly being moved with this speech of his, changed their minds on the sudden, and commanded him immediately to raise another force, and go himself to assist their confederates in the Hellespont; an appointment which, in effect, contributed more than anything to the relief of Byzantium.

"It is natural to a republic to have only a small territory, otherwise it cannot long subsist.

If an object that subsists also exists, it is a real object, but if an object that subsists cannot exist (i.e., can merely subsist), it is an ideal object.

Values are not real things; they have to be taken as ideal things that cannot exist but only subsist.

He cannot chew food, and is forced to subsist on "soups, pastries, crap like that".