Sentence examples for subsistence there from inspiring English sources

Apart from the necessity of human beings to engage in productive relations with other human beings and with their environment in order to produce their means of subsistence, there is no human nature or essence.

There are not a lot of career options above subsistence level there, and there probably never will be.

[Page A1.] A study concludes that Nafta failed to generate substantial job growth in Mexico, hurt hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers there and had "minuscule" net effects on jobs in the United States.

As the North American Free Trade Agreement nears its 10th anniversary, a study from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concludes that the pact failed to generate substantial job growth in Mexico, hurt hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers there and had "minuscule" net effects on jobs in the United States.

Overall, Full Steam Ahead improved the lifestyle of people involved in commercial and industrial activities, but for small farmers who practised subsistence agriculture there would be no positive impact.

Where the islands of capitalism met the sea of subsistence labour, there was not a "beach", but a "cliff".

Since most coastal fishing in Melanesia is subsistence based, there is the very real prospect of a nutritional shortfall that will affect millions of people.

Most people were subsistence farmers: there wasn't enough flat land to grow a cash crop, but they farmed the slopes.

From foreign junkets to the employment of relatives, from party funding to the £165-a-night peers' subsistence allowance, there is the stench of sleazy self-enrichment.

If you are a subsistence farmer, there is no way that you will be able to compete with your neighbor who owns one.

Because this is an area of desperate poverty where most people eke out a living from subsistence agriculture, there is no stigma attached to growing heroin poppies, and those who have planted the crop freely admit it.