Sentence examples for for mere survival from inspiring English sources

demanding signings, we're desperate for mere survival and some semblance of stability.

In his view, citizens don't have an automatic right to more than the water they require for mere "survival", unless they can afford to pay for it.

Struggling for mere survival, they understandably did not have great opportunity to realize whatever urges they may have felt for dissent or cultural expression.

In the course of a decade it was forced to scale back its global presence, and then found itself fighting for mere survival.

This divide between those who yearn for a better life and those trapped in a deadening struggle for mere survival is a familiar one in Morrison novels.

It fixes its heroes in an abstemious, militarized world of twenty-four-hour-a-day work for mere survival, in which no personal life remains outside the realm of official function, a de-mentalized world that the movie presents, moreover, as appealing.

The director mines the picaresque action for grand ideas, including the intimate conflicts arising from his artistic ambitions and, above all, the self-denying performances that a black person must stage in his daily life for the sake of mere survival, as when, fearing his own arrest, he absorbs, with a grand rhetorical flourish, a white racist's aggressions.

We are not privy to Mrs Lewis's explanation of what the rest of humankind was up to – that sizeable portion of it for whom the rigours of mere survival could not be exchanged for the privileges of the inkhorn – and one suspects that the teenage Cusk was not minded to linger on their fate.

"Now," he says, "you tell me all is lost?" For him, mere survival cannot be enough.

Those who live on must be given some reason for living: mere survival is worse than death".

There were no attacks on the yellow jersey during the 146 kilometres, merely a little jockeying for the minor placings – the Spaniard Joaquim Rodríguez moved from 11th to seventh after a late attack – but for most mere survival in the hellish conditions down the final nerve‑racking descent of the Col de Joux Plane was more than sufficient.