When they handed over their guns, the ex-fighters each received a lump sum of 300,000 leones ($150) to help them subsist for a few months.
They mature into adults once they reach the small intestine, where they can subsist for years by latching onto the intestinal wall and siphoning off blood.
I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management concerns that I often subsist for weeks on instant oatmeal and multivitamins.
Now all they have is this sidewalk in Phnom Penh, where they subsist for the moment on donations from aid groups and sacks of rice from King Norodom Sihanouk, the nearly powerless monarch, who lives next door in his palace.
All batrachians, however, can subsist for a long time without food, and grow little during this fast; they seek shelter under damp wood, stones, or other cover; they practically aestivate, a summer slumber similar to hibernation.
Gabler is a writer with a long and distinguished career, and yet, he writes, "I know what it is like to be down to my last $5 — literally — while I wait for a paycheck to arrive, and I know what it is like to subsist for days on a diet of eggs".
Languid and thin, Mr. Pham said he subsisted for a time on nothing.
One put me in touch with a friend, Laura McElroy, who is subsisting for three weeks on just water.
Subsisting for the most part on seeds, buds, leaves, and fruits, foods of low protein content and nutritive value, pigeons must consume large quantities during each feeding day.
He is an advocate of fasting and said he once subsisted for 28 days on nothing but water and green tea.
He looked like a man who had subsisted, for a very long time, on a strict diet of the feelings of children.
