Sentence examples for cycle of subsistence from inspiring English sources

Before the 19th century, most people were caught in an endless cycle of subsistence farming.

The toiling peasant, freed from the brutal exactions of native tax collectors, would be able to break through a cycle of subsistence, and produce crops (like raw cotton) actually demanded by British manufacturers and consumers.

The annual flood cycle in the Okavango Delta is the basis of subsistence of the local population, providing water, arable land and wetland resources.

Just a matter of subsistence?

"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.

That is the nature of subsistence.

Islands of capitalism existed amid a sea of subsistence labour.

Invasion threatens to overlap the narrow margin of subsistence.