Sentence examples for life's necessities from inspiring English sources

By Suzanna Dayne ALOR, Indonesia, 14 December 2007 – The island of Alor is just two short flights away from Bali, and yet it's a world away when it comes to the most basic of life's necessities: clean drinking water.

Photo Essay on Education Rainwater harvesting in remote Indonesian islands of NTT The island of Alor is just two short flights away from Bali, and yet it's a world away when it comes to the most basic of life's necessities: clean drinking water.

In Trinidad's little high street, the shops sell a few of life's necessities.

In 1949, $700 went for the most basic of life's necessities: food, clothing and housing.

Life's necessities (housing, electricity, the contents of supermarkets) were collectively "re-appropriated" with astonishing frequency.

Often these patients are not well off financially and may have difficulty paying for life's necessities.

Life might feel more expensive than it did five years ago, but when it comes to the little necessities (therapy, Champagne, the perfect jeans), prices have barely budged compared to life's real necessities (corn, oil, health insurance).

These are grassroots groups working in poor communities, dedicated to empowering those living there and helping them with some of life's basic necessities.

The price tag for life's basic necessities — everything from milk to haircuts to Lipitor to electricity, and especially housing — is more than twice the national average.

Our air conditioning went out a week ago, and even my wife, who like all Southerners views central air as one of life's primal necessities, has been surprisingly unconcerned.

Haiti's own problems — runaway population growth, acute shortages of food and life's basic necessities, environmental degradation — often appear insuperable.