Sentence examples for gain livelihood from inspiring English sources

Flexibility in using different means to gain livelihood security is not the same for elders and younger individuals.

Hesiod also speaks to Perses directly, urging him to abandon his schemes and thenceforth to gain his livelihood through strenuous and persistent work: "Before success the immortal gods have placed the sweat of our brows".

It moves away from the tradition of saying a journalist is someone linked to a traditional media organization or who gathers news "for gain or livelihood".

The House version of this bill (H.R. 1962) includes precarious language, solely defining this "covered person" as someone who reports for a news organization for "financial gain or livelihood".

If they could find an appealing way of gaining that livelihood, they would be inclined to adopt it.

On his return from Europe, he gained his livelihood by the practice of law, but his fame came from his Persian- and Urdu-language poetry, which was written in the classical style for public recitation.

The Ottomans, left as the major Muslim rivals of Byzantium, attracted masses of nomads and urban unemployed who were roaming through the Middle East searching for means to gain their livelihoods and seeking to fulfill their religious desire to expand the territory of Islam.

Gaining a livelihood in these drought-prone regions is uncertain, but people have survived and prospered here for many generations.

Most successful CHW programmes have therefore ensured that their CHWs receive adequate remuneration if their programme activities prevent them from gaining their livelihood in other ways [ 20, 21].

Steadily worsening conditions in Palestine drew many Jews to Persian domains, where economic opportunities and the Jewish communal structure enabled them to gain a better livelihood while living in accordance with their ancestral traditions.

However, a higher proportion of patients from conflict zones (63%) were pastoral nomads and the remaining proportion (37%) gained their livelihoods by combining agriculture and pastoralism.