Sentence examples for procuring subsistence from inspiring English sources

These African and possibly European species dating to the late Miocene Epoch (11.6 5.3 million years ago) came, in Charles Darwin's words, "to live somewhat less on trees and more on the ground," owing to "a change in its manner of procuring subsistence, or to a change in the conditions of its native country".

Most scholars also argue that Locke recognized a general duty to assist with the preservation of mankind, including a duty of charity to those who have no other way to procure their subsistence (Two Treatises 1.42).

Few participants had regular income and most were engaged in subsistence agriculture, many had difficulty procuring sufficient food for their families.

Middlemen earn several hundred yuan, about $30, for procuring a child, and that money has built houses and bought tractors in villages that once relied on subsistence farming.

Villagers were subsistence farmers.

Superfluity rather than subsistence.

"It's subsistence farming.

Most Rwandans are subsistence farmers.

"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.

Subsistence crops include potatoes, tomatoes, and bananas.

That's just basic subsistence.