Sentence examples for livelihoods off from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

We met the Turkish shop owners in Dalston who'd united to protect their livelihoods by chasing off gangs of rioters with snooker cues, and went to Camden where we had to drive through a 200-strong crowd, some armed with axes.

But many earn their livelihoods from their off-tenure-track teaching, either on a single campus or as "gypsy scholars" traveling to meet classes on several campuses.