Sentence examples for like subsistence from inspiring English sources

It may engineer growth by mobilising people and resources from low-productivity activities, like subsistence agriculture, toward industry.

For many people in poor countries, factory jobs replace things like subsistence farming or prostitution; it would be no kindness to them to insist on wages or working conditions that would price their labour out of the global marketplace.

It completely destroys ways of life that have been around for thousands of years, like subsistence farming.

Urban culture caters heavily to autonomous singles, both in its social diversity and in its amenities: gyms, coffee shops, food deliveries, laundromats, and the like ease solo subsistence.

But this does sort of sound like a subsistence culture in northern Europe.

In a place like Haiti, subsistence wages may be undignified, but they are better than starvation.

Today my parents would be hip, taking part in something like "sustainable subsistence agriculture" or "homesteading".

By moving together, they hoped, they could safeguard the things that make them unique, like their subsistence lifestyle and customs.

We spend our days working for a little bit of money, though never really enough, to provide for basic means of subsistence like shelter and low cost food, which our work requires.

This was a mystery blank DVDs cost 800 shillings, and the economy of scale wouldn't offer any deep wholesale discounts for pirates, who must grub by on their own low capital and thin profit margins, like all other subsistence merchants in Uganda.

The area has few paid jobs, and deforestation has led to flooding that may wipe out subsistence crops like beans, as it did last spring.