Sentence examples for margin of subsistence from inspiring English sources

Invasion threatens to overlap the narrow margin of subsistence.

Population growth and subdivision of the land from generation to generation was reducing the margin of subsistence for many families.

The events leading up to Mahon's death epitomized much of what was wrong with pre-famine Ireland: the largely parasitical landlord class, the deep sectarianism that further divided rulers and ruled, and an underclass largely dependent on the potato and living on the margin of subsistence.

However, for purposes of comparison, according to historian Steven C. Topik, in the United States, "by 1890, 80 percent of the population lived on the margin of subsistence, while 20 percent controlled almost all wealth".

The overwhelming economic power that is modern China all grew from these thin margins of subsistence.

And 1.3 billion of them exist at the very margins of subsistence, making do on less than $1 a day.

Just a matter of subsistence?

"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.

That is the nature of subsistence.

Kitwarotith, the son of subsistence farmers, is typical.

For him food is merely an indispensable means of subsistence.