Sentence examples for mere subsistence from inspiring English sources

Though agriculture is still Nigeria's largest employer, most of it is for mere subsistence.

A sense of security for members of society in need bumped down to mere subsistence.

But Cheryl and Debbie, despite some nudging from Margaret about the necessity of giving people more than mere subsistence, sternly drew the line at a system that could end up with the workless taking home more than workers.

Meanwhile, I would summarize it this way: Markets, property rights, freedom of enterprise, etc., create the material basis for getting beyond mere subsistence, which in turn is a necessary precondition "for organized self-government and modern civil rights".

After four months of mass protests and political deadlock, Yemen — already the poorest Arab country, a place where many people have become accustomed to mere subsistence — has had its domestic oil supplies and electricity network largely cut off by hostile tribes.

Despite the struggle to survive, the goal wasn't mere subsistence or corporeal existence but a life, entailing a nuanced inner life — the life of the imagination, of fancy and dream, of dramas and, for that matter, of comedies that surpassed the ordeal of mere perseverance.

He maintained that within the capitalist system, labour was a mere commodity that could gain only subsistence wages.

Of the total worth of the worker's labour, however, this compensation, in Marxian theory, accounts for only a mere portion, equivalent to the worker's means of subsistence.

We are growing increasingly cynical, what with the stakes for acceptance having risen from mere peer cliques and student clubs to those of our very subsistence - and that's during "good" economic times.

According to Italos, therefore, both subsistences and beings that subsist in something else are beings, and thus do not depend on mere thought.

"The inadequacies — more than just a handful and more than mere imperfections — left entire subjects of central interest to the affected First Nations, sometimes subjects affecting their subsistence and well-being, entirely ignored," said the ruling.