Sentence examples for for bare subsistence from inspiring English sources

He was allocated a house shared with other adults, and an asylum seeker's £36 per week welfare, which paid for bare subsistence.

The number of inmates is about the same as in America, but where the U.S. spends $70 per day per prisoner, Russia spends only $1. Prison budgets get slashed every year, and Yalunin claims that he receives only half of what is needed for bare subsistence.

It directs itself uningratiatingly at the heart and body rather than the mind, with its poetry of bare subsistence.

Not coincidentally, average incomes in Botswana have grown faster than anywhere else in the world in the past 35 years, from bare subsistence to over $3,000 a year.

But outsiders who know Iraq well say that the sanctions -- by reducing many Iraqis to levels of bare subsistence and adding to Mr. Hussein's formidable powers that of bestowing scarce necessities -- have strengthened, not weakened, Iraq's ruler.

For the majority of Indian families, and especially those in India's cities, the challenge is no longer bare subsistence: it's how to realise the new, widespread hope for upward mobility.

For it is also axiomatic that it is the lot of humankind to labour, and not necessarily in the hope of achieving more than a bare subsistence.

"By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level.

Between the extremes of total neglect of future generations and the paring down of current consumption to a bare subsistence minimum lie an infinite number of possibilities.

Below these barons existed a large number of petty nobles with minuscule fiefs; still lower was the mass of peasants, who eked a bare subsistence from the soil.

Many of the programmers said that so many shows were struggling at a bare subsistence level that other factors had to come into play.