Other short philosophical works are On Potency and Act (De potentia et actu), On the Halt of Causes (De statu causarum), On the Subsistence of a Thing (De subsistentia rei), and On the Truth of the Proposition (De veritate propositionis).
Estates were exploited by subsistence tenants on a standard medieval pattern.
Before she and her husband received a two-acre plot of land that had been seized from a white farmer several years ago, they were penniless subsistence farmers on a scrap of communal land.
It was also one of the poorest and most depressed fragments of the Canadian population, scratching out a subsistence on the rocky farming land north of Halifax.
Costa's devotion to the spiritual loam of the long-enduring has a Faulknerian charm, as does his tracing of broad tectonic historical movements in the minutiae of ordinary lives and his overarching view of the transition from agrarian to urban, from magical to rational, from subsistence to a toehold on affluence.
Poverty and the MDGs Officially defined as subsistence on less than $1.25 per day, poverty is often a symptom of deficits that extend beyond simple income levels.
In Southeast Asia, upland rice (Oryza sativa) is an annual crop typically grown for subsistence on hilly lands that are at risk for soil erosion.
Academics have argued that Melville's Bartleby — "so thin and pale" — is anorexic, a diagnosis that explains the scrivener's subsistence on the rare, hand-delivered "ginger-nut," as well as his maddening passivity.
These days they live in a clearing near the city, reliant for their subsistence on state handouts.
The end result is a transition, still unraveling, from an environmental dependency linked to the pursuit of human survival through a pastoral mode of subsistence to a cash dependency on non-pastoral activities that are tenuously linked to the cultural continuity of a marginalizing pastoral way of life.
