Sentence examples for livelihood can be from inspiring English sources

Because agriculture relies on the mass cultivation of a handful of starchy crops, a community's whole livelihood can be wiped out overnight by bad weather or pests.

Under such a system, in which one's livelihood can be destroyed by a self-serving boss trying to meet a budget or please the higher-ups, what employee would ever speak his mind?

The formation of further bars is proceeding visibly and, as there is currently no port in the vicinity whose livelihood can be threatened, it is interesting to speculate how far out to sea this process will ultimately continue in the course of the next millennium or so.

When it took ten months to heal enough to be productive again, he realized how extremely vulnerable a freelance artist's livelihood can be.

This reflects a view that sustainable livelihoods can be underpinned by incentivising conservation.

Seeing how quickly lives and livelihoods can be disrupted shows us how much we take for granted.

The second day of the Ambassador's visit offered the two contrasting perspectives of luxury tourism and local life in a small village, as well as how those separate livelihoods can be blended.

These existing programs clearly do not reflect the economic reality of many Detroiters, who are living hand-to-mouth and whose livelihoods can be compromised by even minor illnesses or car troubles.

Where households do have access to loans, the effects on household livelihoods can be severe and long-lasting [ 21].

Rural household livelihoods can be conceptualized as an integrative mediating factor into the migration and environment model.

Numerous experiences, principally from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), have proven that these more participatory (slow) approaches often work and that sustainable livelihoods can be established.