Sentence examples for have been subsisting from inspiring English sources
G.M. and Chrysler have been subsisting on government loans since the beginning of the year.
The unprecedented closings reflect the precarious financial state of both G.M. and Chrysler, which have been subsisting on government loans since the beginning of the year.
We'd have been subsisting on bread and turnips, or even banged up in a tower prison if we'd displeased the Pallavicina family.
Whitney's theory is that states, whose finances are also in desperate shape, will cut off local aid to preserve their own budgets; cities that have been subsisting on government transfers would become fiscal orphans and, in a financial sense, unworkable.
Speaking on Friday, UN official Christopher Gunness said residents in the Yarmouk camp, including infants and children, have been subsisting on diets of such things as stale vegetables, animal feed and cooking spices dissolved in water.
Which, it appears, is what Paltrow and her co-author Julia Turshen have been subsisting on.
The previous week, she had been subsisting mainly on grapefruit juice.
His professional theater has been subsisting on loans and savings, he said.
He had been subsisting on a veteran's pension and Social Security".
They had been subsisting on staples their grown children brought them.
He has been subsisting on Social Security virtually all his adult life, and has drifted from place to place.
