In practice, it appears that the subsistence needs of a family of six members are fully met.
To limit a periodic alimony award based on the bare-bones subsistence needs of a wife is gender bias, claims the plaintiff...
The neo-evolutionist Leslie White reacted to the idealism of the cultural approach, turning his attention to the progress of technology in harnessing energy to serve the survival and subsistence needs of cultures.
In this region food was plentiful; less work was required to meet the subsistence needs of the population than in farming societies of comparable size, and, as with agricultural societies, the food surpluses of the Northwest encouraged the development of social stratification.
The Obama administration is trying to change some of these policies, proposing to rewrite enforcement rules to require that child support orders be based on actual income and consider the "subsistence needs" of the noncustodial parent, to bar states from allowing child support debt to accrue while parents are incarcerated and to finance more job placement services for them.
Because of minor variations in the calculation of the subsistence needs of particular families, and because the maximum grant varies between $240 and $250 per month, depending upon the county in which a particular family resides, the cut-off point between families that receive the full subsistence allowance and those that do not is not precisely families of more than six members.
A theme to which Mohist texts return repeatedly is the problem of meeting the basic subsistence needs of the common people.
Some of these plots were of substantial size, although many were probably sufficient only to meet the subsistence needs of the families who owned them.
"It could have walked out of here days ago with a perfectly adequate quota to meet the subsistence needs of indigenous communities in Greenland for the next six years, but it was prepared to lose everything for a handful of extra whales that, our recent surveys show, could well end up on the menu in tourist restaurants".
As in the case of production, the development of a local market in livestock is similarly constrained by certain practices regarding their sale, which include the following: (i) as already noted above, sale is unrelated to market demand, but to the subsistence needs of pastoralists who are primarily motivated by the need to replenish their limited basket of goods.
It is the responsibility of national governments to provide the Commission with evidence of the cultural and subsistence needs of their people.
