Sentence examples for subsistence rules from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, IWC governments voted to allow the Bequians of St Vincent and the Grenadines to continue hunting whales under "aboriginal subsistence" rules, designed for peoples with an established tradition.

Subsistence farmers lived under rules designed to tax them so that the rulers could live in palaces and pay for soldiers to maintain their power.

In the countryside, subsistence farming is the rule.

Its own interpretation of rules on aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW) is that countries are entitled to set their own quotas, provided they are consistent with IWC scientific advice.

The second implication concerns the application by the Makah, a Native American people living on the western coast of the US, to hunt grays under IWC rules on aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW).

Several indigenous people also spoke on Tuesday in favour of their own subsistence hunting, which is allowed under commission rules.

The new rules would effectively ban "non-subsistence" slaughter of predators within the refuges without a sound scientific reason.

Mr Mugabe may well believe it would be easier to rule a country of subservient subsistence farmers than a well-educated, industrialised workforce.

Then, there are the post-apocalyptic scenarios in which humanity is reduced to subsistence farming or neo-feudalism, stuck in villages ruled by religious fanatics or surrounded by toxic wastelands, predatory warlords, or flesh-eating zombie hordes.

But developing countries have neither the money nor the technology to regulate their millions of subsistence fishermen; and in rich and poor countries alike, rules are still widely flouted.This so-called "tragedy of the commons" is made worse by the huge subsidies governments pay to keep their fishing industries afloat.

And although evidence was submitted for a further £11.3m of payments for travel, communications, subsistence and phone calls which met requirements under expenses rules, it was not considered sufficient by Mr Morse "to confirm the regularity of expenditure".