Sentence examples for could subsist from inspiring English sources

He could subsist on meals, sometimes for days, of peanut butter and bread.

The doctors I spoke to agreed that you could subsist on Soylent.

"I was more agile than they, and could subsist upon coarser diet," the creature says.

(As body mass increases, metabolic rates slow, making it more likely that an animal, such as an adapiform, could subsist on a diet of fruit and leaves).

It was the immense forage requirements of premechanized armies, more than any other single factor, that restricted warfare before the 20th century so generally to seasons and climates when animals and men could subsist mainly on the countryside.

A team of Swedish researchers compared the genomes of wolves and dogs and their findings support the hypothesis that dogs evolved from wolves who could subsist on human food.

Accelerated inflation resulted in more than 500 strikes in the first half of the year by workers who could not subsist on their wages.

"Everyone was thinking of the worst-case scenario," Kimelman said, "and we had to ask ourselves, 'Is there a role for us to play?' " The news site was to be seeded with nonprofit funds but with a goal that it could eventually subsist on advertising revenue.

Others could learn to subsist on synthetic blood rather than emptying their friends.

For the need of God to sustain nature, see the letter to Richard Bentley (25 February 1693), in which Newton argues: "this frame of things could not always subsist without a divine power to conserve it"; cf. Newton 1953: 56.

When droughts occurred, peasants could not always subsist from local economic activities or savings.