Sentence examples for subsistence has from inspiring English sources

This city-state confected from subsistence has now witnessed the opening of the world's tallest building – the Burj Khalifa, steel-ribbed, glass-clad and completely unsustainable.

Still, Lindsey believes that the new dimension of liberty — emancipation from the preoccupation with subsistence — has been a boon because material security has reduced "stress".

For, without it, such is the competitive nature of humanity, that once more than subsistence has been achieved, people are actuated by vanity and ambition, and there is a war of all against all.

Time and money: People I know now who are in their twenties spend many more hours earning a living than seemed to be necessary decades ago; subsistence has gotten a lot more expensive.

After four months of mass protests and political deadlock, Yemen — already the poorest Arab country, a place where many people have become accustomed to mere subsistence — has had its domestic oil supplies and electricity network largely cut off by hostile tribes.

Indeed, by not ensuring a minimum access to energy services for a broad segment of the population, economic development of developing countries such as Nigeria beyond the level of subsistence has proven to be a real challenge.

Most mercantilists, confident that any number of people would be able to produce their own subsistence, had no worries about harmful effects of population growth.

Indigenous people have been moving out and small-scale mining and livestock-raising, on which the communities depended for subsistence, have been hurt," Villablanca added.

The money (travel, subsistence) had to be meticulously divided (NATO money to NATO participants, FEBS money to FEBS participants, and the remaining (industrial) money to the rest of the world).

The mainly subsistence economy has collapsed.

"The land upon which Man of Aran depends for his subsistence — potatoes — has not even soil!" the intertitle read.