Sentence examples for subsistence amounts from inspiring English sources

Thomas Carlyle, historian (1795 1881), Past and Present (1843)"In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will".

"While cash transfers have been used in humanitarian contexts before, this initiative is a significant departure from the status quo because we're giving families transformative amounts of money versus small, subsistence amounts," Diao explained.

There, they are required to pay fees that block many from ever being able to build lives of stability; subsistence payments amount to more than $100 per week, and the payments make it next to impossible to accumulate the savings necessary to pay for deposits on housing.

An update of the "subsistence-minimum" amount that pensioners receive has been put on hold.

Instead of Social Security's pension plan, which replaces wages so that people can retire with dignity and maintain their standard of living as they age, the Republicans proposed paying all seniors an identical subsistence-level amount.

Governments often measure poverty against a national subsistence minimum – the amount of money a household is estimated to need to buy a minimum 'basket' of goods and services.

As a result, many Afghan farmers (most Afghans subsistence farm) lack proper amounts of water to successfully farm.

The amount of subsistence available not only failed to expand to meet the needs of the rising population but in fact fell as the result of the anarchic political and economic conditions.

The money lent mostly goes directly to the universities, with only a small amount for subsistence given to the students.Last year marked the first major influx of loan recipients into the job market.

A few times a year he makes a trip to Cairns, a city nearly 500 miles away, for "condiments and other special things," he said, but mostly he lives a subsistence lifestyle that requires immense amounts of labor and planning.

A large proportion of the 6,000 residents relies on fishing for subsistence and consequently consumes large amounts of seafood (Dewailly et al. 1992).