Sentence examples for for bare survival from inspiring English sources

My own impression, reinforced by Martin's book, is that North Koreans behave pretty much like all people forced to fight for bare survival: kindness is a dangerous luxury.

For two decades after the war, ex-soldiers like Private Chu Trong struggled for bare survival through subsistence farming, earning $80 per year, says Lieutenant Major Nui.

The last five years have been a time of retrenchment, and the last two weeks ones of bare survival.

Hundreds of thousands have lost the minimum benefits needed for dignity and bare survival without due process.

We played the tunes to it, for the sake of our bare survival.

Bare survival is the reality for many.

On a finite planet, the optimum population providing the best quality of life for all, is clearly much smaller than the maximum, permitting bare survival.

For poor Iranians, keeping bread and rice prices affordable makes the difference between bare survival and destitution.Although many economists frown on Iran's extensive system of keeping staple prices low, they are more tolerant of the bread and wheat subsidy.

Perhaps then we would finally begin to live, rather than being concerned with bare survival.

If you go hunting for the roots of Thanksgiving, you come up against an unknowable event: a three-day feast celebrating a good harvest in a year, 1621, when even a good harvest meant bare survival.

For all too many farmers — caught between diminishing demand for milk, historically low milk prices and historically high grain prices — that is the difference between bare survival and certain insolvency.