Sentence examples for meager subsistence from inspiring English sources
These principles lay behind the New Poor Law of 1834 which required many recipients of assistance to live and work in gender-segregated special workhouses, rather like prisons, in return for a meager subsistence income (see Roberts 1960 36 455, on Edwin Chadwick's role in designing the New Poor Law; and see Hamburger 1965, for a discussion of Chadwick's intellectual context).
His father, Mohammad Abdul Salam bin Hamed bin Mohammad, was known as Abu Meniar (died 1985), and his mother was named Aisha (died 1978); Abu Meniar earned a meager subsistence as a goat and camel herder.
In nearby Alam Buana, where the Balinese inhabitants find a meager subsistence in irrigated agriculture on the fringes of the irrigation system, the subak has never been restricted in its functioning by competing claims of authority from the state-established TU and WUA structure.
Now that foreign investment in the developing world has slowed to a trickle, trade has shrunk, commodity prices have fallen, and remittances sent home by immigrants in richer countries are declining sharply, Watkins asked how poor and middle-income countries could avoid a drastic fall in already meager or subsistence living standards.
As a result, their output is meager and insufficient for their subsistence.
In the developing world, subsistence farmers often sell their meager crop right at harvest to traders in pick-up trucks driving by with an immediate offer -- and a low price.
Villagers were subsistence farmers.
Superfluity rather than subsistence.
