What if they weren't any good as live performers after having subsisted for so many years in mothballs?
For a while, he made bread, which he baked on an outdoor fire, but later he decided that yeast was too much trouble, and so subsisted on a sort of rye-meal matzo.
Moreover, many of the Syrian Armenians in Armenia have subsisted on their savings so far.
It is heart-wrenching, Mr. Black said, that the Mixtecs, having for so long subsisted on their own land and hard work — using traditional techniques that span centuries — are forced to abandon their now-barren land to work the massive machines of industrialized agriculture in the United States.
The abundant young rainbow trout were consumed by four species of fish that normally subsist on invertebrates, so they accumulated more mercury than they normally did.
Fresh foods like vegetables and fish were in particularly short supply, so patients mostly subsisted on preserved foods like sweets, pastries, canned products, cup noodles and boil-in-the-bag foods.
As a student at Baylor, where he earned master's degrees in zoology and chemistry, Stapp was so poor that he subsisted on guinea pigs and other lab animals.
Other scientists, however, say that the markings, while helpful for future fossil analysis, leave open the possibility that early humans were so-called passive scavengers who subsisted on the abandoned leftovers of other carnivores.
For all anyone knew, Keith Richards subsisted on a diet of intoxicants, and Kurt Cobain was so plagued by stomach ills that his feast of choice seemed to be antacids.
Mayweather described the humiliation of the strip searches, estimated (generously) he received between 100,000 and 200,000 letters, and said he so distrusted the food inside that he subsisted mostly on candy bars, soda and potato chips.
