He looked like a man who had subsisted, for a very long time, on a strict diet of the feelings of children.
The family had subsisted for a while with "no earnings, no help from family or friends, and not a single dollar from welfare", says Edin, only food stamps.
What if they weren't any good as live performers after having subsisted for so many years in mothballs?
What makes you think you can do it?" This was the late '80s, and the vast majority in our community were first-generation refugees, many of them boat people who had subsisted for years in refugee camps in Southeast Asia.
Please ReprintsThe Ogiek have subsisted peacefully for centuries, hunting tree hyrax (tasty small furry mammals, improbably related to elephants) and harvesting honey.
Humans have subsisted on bushmeat for millennia, and in this part of Africa it remains a principal source of protein — sometimes the only source.
And Buick dealers, who have subsisted on scraps for years, are well respected and savvy.
Still, numerous pastoral cultures (e.g., Rashayada Bedouin of the Sudan, Mongolian and Chinese herdsman, and Pyrenean herders; Figure 1) have subsisted on rangelands for thousands of years despite various hardships and challenges.
For many of Israel's 270 kibbutzim, which were set up with government grants and have subsisted on farming and small factories for most of the last 50 years, the last 20 years have been marked by intense change.
They are vegetarians, and, for the past twenty years, they have subsisted on healthy snacks and one meal, at night.
