Sentence examples for long subsisted from inspiring English sources

He would he sixty-six, it was argued, and that was an advanced age for a man who had long subsisted mainly on alcohol and heroin.

It is heart-wrenching, Mr. Black said, that the Mixtecs, having for so long subsisted on their own land and hard work — using traditional techniques that span centuries — are forced to abandon their now-barren land to work the massive machines of industrialized agriculture in the United States.

One of the high points was an anecdote illustrating the way creationists can reconcile the contradiction of fact with what they would like to believe: Jones told us that he had spent a year teaching in Botswana some years ago, where a fundamentalist form of Calvinism has long subsisted.

Moreover, the Valley has long subsisted on freelancers, who roam between high-tech firms.

The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages, or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind, but is the consequence of acknowledged and indubitable positions, that what has been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood.

Its dietary composition changes with age: young sharks under 1.0 m long subsist almost completely on crabs, while larger sharks consume more bony fishes and cephalopods, as well as a greater variety of prey overall.

Genetic-historical considerations are of great importance when dealing with those areas of the language family where a cultural connection has subsisted long and late.

For too long, the Met has subsisted as a tautology: it presents grand opera on a grand scale because that is what the Met has always done.

The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and instead of enquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

After being told in her Baptist Sunday school that everyone ought to have a plan ("John the Baptist had a goal"), Harriet — the kind of girl whose idea of fun is to see how long she can subsist on eighteen peanuts a day, "the Confederate ration at the end of the war" — sets out to find her brother's killer.

The Fremont people, contemporaries of the better-known Anasazi, lived in the shadow of the Wasatch from 700 C.E. to 1300 C.E. Anthropologists long argued that the Fremont subsisted mostly on wild plants and that corn was of little importance in their diets.