Sentence examples for his subsistence from inspiring English sources

He has no studio (friends store supplies for him), and he produces his art to support his subsistence life style.

"The land upon which Man of Aran depends for his subsistence — potatoes — has not even soil!" the intertitle read.

Immediately God recognized their transgression and proclaimed their punishments for the woman, pain in childbirth and subordination to man and, for the man, relegation to an accursed ground with which he must toil and sweat for his subsistence.

Jay also quotes, "with caveats," an account of Buchinger "from someone named Smith" in a Dublin journal, in 1833: "Notwithstanding, too, his reluctance to the manner of life from which he was compelled to seek his subsistence, he was rather of a sportive humor, and had great liveliness of spirits".

With the spare style of a war reporter (his previous book, "Fools Rush In," recounted his harrowing experiences in Sarajevo during the height of the Bosnian war), Carter introduces a man in his early 40s named Boobuck who waded into the river, drunk, to check his subsistence net; he took one step too many and was sucked downstream to his death.

The trait of sociableness has been observed since the earliest philosophers, and reflects both man's dependence on other people for his subsistence and development, and his vocation to deeper communion.

Still, Mr. Secrest's need is so great that, every month or so, he has no choice but to set aside his subsistence-man principles, drive about 50 miles south on a dirt road and buy cow brains from a butcher.

This meant there was little or nothing that Lord Hanningfield had to pay out of his own pocket in relation to his own subsistence or expenses in the periods with which you are concerned".

It contained no $10 limitation upon his daily subsistence expense and in addition authorized the necessary expenses for travel and attendance of one stenographic clerk who accompanied him.

Once there, realizing he can never return to the army, he sees how his fellow subsistence farmers are getting the shaft, nearly all their crops and goods confiscated as the men are at the front getting decimated.

Burge was unable to afford this on his basic subsistence income; in one letter to the council he wrote, "I can't remember the last time I had £800 in my possession".