Sentence examples for no subsistence from inspiring English sources

The French traveller Jean-Pierre Grosley wrote, in 1765, "A minister of state passed four and twenty hours at a public gaming-table, so absorpt in play that, during the whole time, he had no subsistence but a bit of beef, between two slices of toasted bread, which he eat without ever quitting the game.

The latter is other than Him, and is regarded as His acts and effects, and for other than Him there is no subsistence, unless through Him.

"A minister of state passed four and twenty hours at a public gaming-table, so absorpt in play, that, during the whole time, he had no subsistence but a piece of beef, between two slices of toasted bread, which he eat without ever quitting the game.

There are no subsistence hunts of the St . Lawrencebeluga population, and locating stranded animals in the Arctic is not feasible.

Because no subsistence-farming peasants owned more than a couple animals apiece, early Christians pooled resources and developed a process of plowing that violently dragged a vertical knife and a moldboard through the mud using eight animals.

For the majority of Indian families, and especially those in India's cities, the challenge is no longer bare subsistence: it's how to realise the new, widespread hope for upward mobility.

Food became scarce and subsistence no longer affordable on previously adequate state earnings.

These were "by no means subsistence diets," Orshansky later wrote.

The second factor (Fig. 3b) identified areas of low development (agriculture workers, no phone, subsistence, lacking garbage collection and sewer infrastructure) loading negatively and indicators of urban areas (employment (transportation, commerce workers, renters, legal workers) and college education) loading positively.

Mr. Berlusconi's coalition, the People of Freedom party, ran on a platform that declared that it would "empty illegal camps, and get rid of nomads who have no residence and no means of subsistence".

As feudal lords became profit-minded landlords, peasants moved off the land to become an agricultural proletariat in search of the best wages obtainable, because traditional subsistence was no longer available.