Sentence examples for get subsistence from inspiring English sources

"A man who is born into a world," Malthus wrote in the second edition of his Essay, "if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and in fact has no business to be where he is.

This ensured that laid-off workers still had somewhere affordable to live (they also got subsistence payments that today's migrants would envy).

They get paid subsistence wages.

In the meantime, most are housed by government contractors and get minimal subsistence funding.

It is promoting a new-style apprenticeship scheme, in which would-be craftspeople – generally, these days, career-changers seeking job satisfaction – would get basic subsistence expenses and workshop space to practise their trade, and master craftsmen a salary to mentor them for maybe one day a week.

Development experts working in low-income nations get their daily subsistence allowance adjusted to the costs of each location with much more generous allowances for cities.

It is not just that the richest leave less in the pay chest for everyone else: the chest fills more slowly when the 1% take more, when employees must get by on subsistence wages, when interns must work themselves into the ground for nothing.

A recent World Bank report pointed out that Africa could produce enough food to feed itself; alas, too few subsistence farmers get a chance to sell their produce (and usually get less than 20% of the market price).

In his R.N.C. speech, Romney mentioned his pastoral work "with people who are very poor, to get them help and subsistence," and he said that Republicans had to position themselves as opponents of inequality if they were to win the White House.

I just came here to get some help," said subsistence farmer Markus Bagard, one of approximately 200 Haitians standing outside the airstrip watching the helicopters be unloaded.

Those not favoured by the system are usually sent to Kampala where they get a very small subsistence allowance, or to those workshops that have prepaid hotel fees where one is likely to earn little or nothing no possibility to save".