Sentence examples for subsistence it from inspiring English sources

Wet rice (paddy) provides the main subsistence; it is cultivated in the valley bottoms and in terrace gardens built on the hillsides.

As Daniel Marcus wrote in a piece for the Gazette called "From Occupation to Communization": "Though I have difficulty imagining a scenario in which workers voluntarily destroy their own means of subsistence, it seems right to insist that any alternative to the capitalist system will have to begin by abolishing private property".

"It's not subsistence — it's custom.

For the majority of Indian families, and especially those in India's cities, the challenge is no longer bare subsistence: it's how to realise the new, widespread hope for upward mobility.

When a society advances beyond subsistence it can think beyond immediate needs and invest for the future.

"The (EU) directive thus seeks to prevent economically inactive European Union citizens from using the host member state's welfare system to fund their means of subsistence," it said in a statement.

dA parenthetical comparative historical note is instructive in terms of the relationship between the state's political economy and the community's subsistence economy: it is worth noting that it was the presence of the British in Aden that provided the catalyst to Somalia's commercialization of livestock export to South Arabia (Swift [1979]).

Although the Gambia is one of the world's poorest countries, and most of its population live at subsistence level, it is by African standards a relatively expensive destination.

"They [the followers of Alexander] maintain that the material intellect is capable of immortality and subsistence when it reaches that level of perfection where the objects of knowledge that it apprehends are themselves intellects, in particular the Agent Intellect…[material intellect] is immortal when it is united with the Agent Intellect" (Wars, I.8, p. 170).

Also to the west, the Huaroani Ethnic Reserve has no specific protected area designation, and while a legal Annex to its designation specifies that activities be restricted to subsistence ones, it paradoxically requires inhabitants not to interfere with hydrocarbon exploration or exploitation [17].

"We give people subsistence -- it's not a complete diet -- so people slowly get more and more run down," one foreign expert said.