Sentence examples for subsistence existence from inspiring English sources

He said he understands the long odds against getting to America, or escaping the subsistence existence of Marriabad.

The trestles of a ruined railroad bridge loom over a pastoral landscape as a reminder that humanity, now returned to a subsistence existence, once accomplished great things.

The West Papuans have since been transferred to a settlement near the PNG-Indonesian border where a community of West Papuan refugees lives a mostly subsistence existence, too afraid to return home but without citizenship rights in PNG.

It soon emerged that Bez, who has spent the past few years living a near subsistence existence in a commune in Herefordshire, is not standing as an independent in the Martin Bell tradition – he never did have the makings of a solo artist.

Low wage retail is a subsistence existence.

But tourism alone will not be enough to save the African continent from a subsistence existence.

"Sein" was his word for the most general kind of being, which includes both subsistence and existence.

Meinong distinguishes two ontological notions: subsistence and existence.

I tend to think that people who are ekeing out a subsistence level existence as "brave," but that's just me.

Set in a nonspecific future in which depleted mankind has reverted to a subsistence-level existence, this Bafta-nominated sci-fi anomaly is a bleak parable about the price of food, sex and shelter in a post-civilised world.

The ideal real distinction is to be explained by the terms "existence", "subsistence", and "mere subsistence".