Sentence examples for subsistence to go from inspiring English sources

People travel to meet their needs for subsistence (to go to work, to acquire food and essential services), for personal development (to go to school and cultural facilities), and for entertainment (to participate in or watch sporting events, to visit friends).

Peasants and factory workers living at the subsistence level can hardly save enough to go into business.

This project is designed to go beyond food subsistence and move into agribusiness, where farmers can invest in small threshing machines, de-hulling machines and motorized tractors.

Their parents, who are subsistence farmers, and the rest of the family had to go to a local hotel to watch Tulu win the 10,000 at the Barcelona Games.

The biggest payments for overnight subsistence went to the Liberal Democrats Lord Addington and Lord Razzall, who each claimed £31,073 for staying away from their homes – respectively in Berkshire and Wiltshire – to attend parliament on 147 days, Labour's Lord Howarth of Newport (£30,963 for 147 days) and Labour's Lord Bilston (£30,899 for 146 days).

The administration can help Africans make the transition from subsistence to commercial farming.

The bulk of the economy shifted from subsistence to commercial farming.

From subsistence to commercial herding.

The additional energy consumption created by 300 million people moving from subsistence living to cities is going to significantly drive up resource demand and prices.

Since the 1960s and '70s, according to state department records, the village has been a year-round residence, but the tradition of subsistence living goes on.

The youngest of five sisters, she knew that her elderly mother and father, poor subsistence farmers, had gone deeply into debt to pay for her dowry and wedding.