Sentence examples for only livelihood from inspiring English sources

Now she fears her only livelihood will end.

Here in Vellapallam, the fishing dispute is deeply personal, since fishing is practically the only livelihood available.

The 2004 tsunami greatly depleted the source of the Moken's only livelihood: the ocean's once-abundant array of seafood.

For many of the residents, livestock is their only livelihood, and they will go to any lengths to protect them – including poisoning or killing the hungry beasts.

Developmental policy such as that underlying the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims to enhance not only livelihood security of people in rural areas (through guarantee of one hundred days' wage-employment) but addresses some environmental issues.

The only livelihood I need to worry about is my own, and I'm really not all that concerned about it.

Nearly every week, I see good people lose the only livelihoods they've known storied papers and magazines three generations in the business, ones that I grew up worshiping as the industry goes through an unprecedented shakeout.

And it's not only livelihoods that are endangered, but also thousands of lives.

The systems not only support the livelihood of farmers who rely on them to water their crops, but also determine the amount of resources that the agricultural sector can generate to fuel industrial development in urban areas (Small and Svendsen 1992).

The Eskimos hunted seals until a European ban on sealskins undercut the only real livelihood they knew.

The beekeepers say the theft is threatening not only their livelihood but -- given the centrality they attach to the bee -- the land of Israel itself.