Sentence examples for subsisting terms from inspiring English sources

MR. LESSIG: Well, if it is limited, then there is no limit to the ability of Congress to extend subsisting terms, and that fundamentally destroys the objective that the JUSTICE O'CONNOR: Rule against perpetuities might jump in there at some point.

Stubborn and fiercely intelligent, Mosca is a lover of words and has been starved of them since the death of her intellectual father, subsisting "on workaday terms, snub and flavourless as potatoes".

"Herders who had taken on farming appeared to be less vulnerable to drought than the people who had maintained themselves in terms of subsisting almost entirely on herding," Campbell says.

But a derailment still looms thereafter.For almost six months now, the government has been subsisting on a series of short-term "continuing resolutions" in lieu of an annual budget.

But much of the drop is structural, as ageing baby-boomers retire and the long-term unemployed end up subsisting on disability benefits.The household survey is also showing far less job growth than the payroll report: 1.3m in the past 12 months, compared with 2.2m (see chart).

Insects subsisting on nutritionally unbalanced diets have evolved long-term mutualistic relationships with intracellular symbiotic bacteria (endosymbionts).

Ideal relations, in contrast to real relations, subsist necessarily between the terms of the relation.

She's subsisting on cereal!

"Perhaps Nick is subsisting on smugness".

Subsisting on mildew, it surely feasts in our forest.

But the family is subsisting rather than living.