He would he sixty-six, it was argued, and that was an advanced age for a man who had long subsisted mainly on alcohol and heroin.
The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages, or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind, but is the consequence of acknowledged and indubitable positions, that what has been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood.
It is heart-wrenching, Mr. Black said, that the Mixtecs, having for so long subsisted on their own land and hard work — using traditional techniques that span centuries — are forced to abandon their now-barren land to work the massive machines of industrialized agriculture in the United States.
Sweden has long had among the most lavish unemployment benefits in the OECD, and when Borg's Alliance came to power one-quarter of Swedes were subsisting on the government dole through unemployment or sickness benefits.
Scientists have long appreciated a number of the polar bear's adaptations, which allow it to survive two decades or more on the glacial ice of the Arctic Circle, where temperatures reach minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, all the while defying standard bear omnivorousness to subsist almost exclusively on seal.
Genetic-historical considerations are of great importance when dealing with those areas of the language family where a cultural connection has subsisted long and late.
For too long, the Met has subsisted as a tautology: it presents grand opera on a grand scale because that is what the Met has always done.
If I had had my way, I would have subsisted solely on cake.
At Leicester School of Management, Professor Martin Parker notes that, though long submerged under the 'there is no alternative' discourse, an undercurrent of resistance to the market managerialism of the past 30 years has always subsisted - and not just in the public sector (where, duly adapted, it has ironically been practised with terrifying thoroughness).
