Sentence examples for live on rations from inspiring English sources

They are, he whinged, "forced to live on rations".

You have to live on rations and you are treated like shit".

They were, he said, "treated like shit" and "forced to live on rations".

Last week, the MP was caught on a secret camera saying that after the expenses controversy, MPs were being treated like "shit" and forced to live on rations.

If MPs really are being forced to "live on rations", as Alan Duncan claimed, that's bad news for the belt of fancy restaurants that encircles the Palace of Westminster.

Drinking with on the House of Commons terrace, he was recorded bemoaning his lot: "Basically, it's being nationalised, you have to live on rations and are treated like s**t".

Unlike the rest of the labour force, their productivity is improving.But the majority who work in the state sector earn Cuban pesos, live on ration books and can barely make ends meet unless they receive remittances from abroad or do informal jobs illegally.

Sad that, like the characters in this book, people might truly believe that God is going to judge you if you don't marry your sister or something equally horrific; sad that these children – the Cresswells – were brought up with such a warped view on life, and sad that they thought it was okay to be beaten up, locked in a cell and live on rationed food and water.

And anyone who has met Duncan would think his comment about "living on rations" could well be a joke, albeit a typically silly one.

Says Newman: "We lived on rations".

They lived on rations and furtive acts of kindness.