Hence we are compelled to start public works that will generate some income immediately and enable people to feed themselves rather than subsist on food doles.
In America it is hard for an able-bodied adult male to do anything more than subsist on welfare.
But the family is subsisting rather than living.
The lack of one does not result in social chaos, but does, to borrow Jonathan Sacks's useful analogy, turn the nation into an hotel, in which isolated individuals, families and interest groups subsist, rather than a home in which a people lives and pursues common goals.
These somethings, the Stoics say, subsist (huphestanai) rather than are, or have being (einai).
Namely, the tumor cells do not exist in isolation but rather subsist in a rich microenvironment provided by resident fibroblasts, endothelial cells, pericytes, leukocytes, and ECM components.
Others could learn to subsist on synthetic blood rather than emptying their friends.
Fewer than half of Indian children start nursing within their first 24 hours, receiving water rather than the early, antibody-rich breast milk that helps protect against infections, and most spend their first few years subsisting on protein- and vitamin-poor diets of just rice or bread.
These vents are home to a range of unusual creatures that subsist directly or indirectly on chemical energy derived from the vents, rather than on sunlight.The discovery of hydrothermal vents, in the 1970s, caused great excitement.
— rather than retrograde.
