Sentence examples for subsist less from inspiring English sources
This has met with only limited success, perhaps because pigeons subsist less on treats thrown by tourists than on the mass of edible detritus that is the scurf of the city.
They were barely able to subsist, much less send money home.
Eighty per cent of them still subsist on less than $2 a day.
Roughly 1.2 billion people a fifth of the world's population—subsist on less than $1 a day.
But the subsidy had kept fuel affordable for the Nigerians, most of whom subsist on less than $2 a day.
According to the World Bank up to half of Ghana's 24 million people live in villages and subsist on less than $2 a day.
As Sachs points out, more than a billion people currently subsist on less than a dollar a day — the standard threshold for "extreme poverty".
Global Citizen, the Web site and festival, grew out of the Global Poverty Project, which strives to end extreme poverty: the situation of more than 1.4 billion people trying to subsist on less than $1.25 a day.
More than half of the 1 billion people who live in poverty today are children; some 600m children and adolescents live in families that have to subsist on less than $1 a day.
In the buffer zone, upward of thirty per cent of the population is afflicted with AIDS, and most people subsist on less than a dollar a day, with an average life expectancy of between forty and forty-five years.
The city that features famous restaurants like Chez Panisse and hilltop mansions with breathtaking views of San Francisco Bay is also one where 10 percent of households subsist on less than $10,000 a year.
