Languid and thin, Mr. Pham said he subsisted for a time on nothing.
He is an advocate of fasting and said he once subsisted for 28 days on nothing but water and green tea.
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.
Their predecessors — the Hohokam people, irrigation farmers who subsisted for over a thousand years around a vast canal network in the Phoenix Basin — faced a similar test, and ultimately failed.
I subsisted for an entire year of college on lettuce, nonfat yogurt, pickles, an overpriced and hard-to-find kind of low-calorie noodle, and baroque puddings involving canned pumpkin and expired spices.
While numerous pastoral cultures have subsisted for thousands of years and continue to survive today, nearly all are facing great difficulties as the world's rangelands deteriorate.
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.
At the end of the Ramayana, a golden image of Sita is subsisted for the real Sita to be on side of Rama in sacrifices, after Sita's abandonment by Rama when her chastity is questioned by his subjects.
