Sentence examples for livelihood off from inspiring English sources

In 1900, more than 40 percent of the nation's population earned its livelihood off the land; today, that share is less than 2 percent.

A champion of labour who never submitted to the indignity of a full-time job, Marx felt no compunction in sponging for his livelihood off the capitalist class, in the person of his long-suffering collaborator Friedrich Engels.

I find the hypocrisy of writers -- who hope to make their livelihood off of books and readers -- putting down other books offensive.

Women thus experience different livelihood trade-offs because of their different roles and gendered livelihood activities.

For livestock owners, there are thus opportunity costs and livelihood trade-offs attached to participating in conservancies.

As the federal government protects more plant and animal species under the Endangered Species Act, he said, people who have made their livelihoods off the land are left to wither away.

Especially aggravating is the media's ongoing insistence that it is somehow doing athletes a huge favor by covering them, as opposed to, you know, making their own livelihoods off the backs of those athletes.

The most moving moments of the six hours were two emotional pleas to Buffett by residents of the Klamath, Ore., area complaining that the dam system there had killed the fishing business for long-time residents, devastating their livelihood and cutting off the salmon supply for the local Indian tribes.

Access to food is often cut off, livelihoods are shattered and communities are uprooted.

Examples of providing incentives include subsidising cost-inefficient farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy to switch to different livelihoods and paying off a number of European fishermen so that there is more stock left for others, generating a greater income.

"As a result, our police officers are being placed in an untenable situation, having to make a split-second, life or death decision between risking their career and livelihood or taking off-duty police action to save a life," Mr. Karasyk said.