Sentence examples for subsisting but from inspiring English sources

Throughout history, we've always found ways to make our basic survival require less of our human focus, and we've witnessed subsequent booms in new professions — specifically, vocations that didn't relate directly to merely subsisting, but thriving.

She doesn't want her kids to simply subsist, but wants her youngest, Henry and Willa, to have a real chance to overcome the world's new dangers.

He barely thinks about what he's doing—"Remnants of the old atrocity subsist, but they are converted into ingenious shifts in scenery, a sort of 'English garden' effect, to give the required air of naturalness, pathos and hope.

Her method, she said, was not intended to measure absolute physical privation, not the bare minimal level on which people could subsist, but a standard somewhat more in consonance with American experience.

The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all.

Nessa and Blaise are attempting not merely to survive and subsist but to live, and the job that Nessa gets is a first step, not merely in terms of personal responsibility and financial independence but also in terms of daily aesthetics, of the adornments and the pleasures that raise existence into life.

Francis argues that we are sanctioned to take from the Earth what we need to subsist, but that this should be balanced with preserving the Earth for future generations because: 'The earth is the Lord's' (Ps 24:1); to him belongs 'the earth with all that is within it' (Dt 10 14).

Regulators have imposed limits on the company's operations to limit the risk of a Deepwater Horizon-like spill and protect marine life on which indigenous communities like Olemaun's subsist — but let it to go forward despite bitter opposition from environmentalists, most of whom otherwise support Obama's actions.

Such a pattern could indicate that, in a given biogeographic region, only one species per ecological niche can subsist, but also that ecologically similar species evolved independently in geographically separated areas.

The First Amendment aspect of the plaintiffs' complaint attacks the CTEA not only in its application to subsisting copyrights but also insofar as it extends the terms of copy- rights for works yet to be created.

The Lapita appear to have been skilled sailors and navigators who subsisted largely, but not entirely, by fishing along the coasts of the islands on which they lived.