Sentence examples for desperate subsistence from inspiring English sources

In one example, desperate subsistence farmers displaced by desertification and crop failure are more likely to cultivate poppies as part of the drug trade, which is intrinsically linked to insecurity in Afghanistan.

What the research actually highlights is a group of people trapped in a cycle of short-term work, making desperate claims for subsistence benefits, and compelled to sign up for various work schemes (which fail them utterly) and more short-term work, as the whole cycle repeats endlessly.

But for those Australians set to lose between $4.40 and $7.05 a week in one of the 45th parliament's first legislative acts, many of them living below the poverty line, those small sums will make the dire choices of subsistence budgeting even more desperate.

Because this is an area of desperate poverty where most people eke out a living from subsistence agriculture, there is no stigma attached to growing heroin poppies, and those who have planted the crop freely admit it.

And to prove his point, his humanity, he went to live among the people he wrote about - in a lean-to room in the desperate shanty towns of Lagos, sharing a handful of rice with the starving subsistence farmers of the Sahel - and tried to tell the stories of their emerging countries as they might have told them.

She claimed that they were desperate to reach Britain because they had heard that asylum seekers received £36 a week subsistence in the UK.

Life in dusty provincial towns and on the tiny subsistence farms in the countryside is bleak, and teen-agers often grow restless and desperate there.

Villagers were subsistence farmers.

Superfluity rather than subsistence.

"It's subsistence farming.

Desperate times, desperate measures.