Sentence examples for surviving below from inspiring English sources
TUC general secretary-designate Frances O'Grady called on companies to adopt the standard describing the figure of one in five workers surviving below it as "shocking".
Last week, the national statistics agency for Italy, Istat, revealed that almost three million Italians — just under five percent of the population — were in absolute poverty in 2008, surviving below acceptable levels.
These situations resulted in a large portion of the population in New Orleans surviving below the poverty line (Masozera et al. 2007).
The top of the building my guide brought me to had since been demolished, and the surviving below-street-level apartment was different.
Worse, climate change may make life even harder for the monarchs: Monarchs can survive below-freezing winter temperatures.
These shaggy, oxlike, horned beasts are as nimble as goats in steep terrain but cannot survive below 10,000 feet.
Every day we are privileged to meet people who are deeply loving, courageous against the odds, determined and often ingenious in working out how to make ends meet in their daily battle to survive below the poverty line.
Together with Mayol and the Brazilian freediver Américo Santarelli, Maiorca had captured the public's attention in the 1960s by defying the warnings of scientists that the human body could not survive below 50 metres on a single breath of air.
Spore formers like Bacillus cereus display a mechanism of acid tolerance response (ATR) and can survive below pH 4.0 favourable for spore formation (Gadaga et al., 2004).
Most tropical fishes grow best between 21 and 32 °C, but are not able to survive below 15 °C for extended period of time (Swift 1993).
Cartwright and Findlay (1958) also mention the ability of some fungal mycelium to survive below the fiber saturation point moisture content (26- 27% of the dry weight for most wood species), while spores, as well as mycelium of several fungal species, can survive for many years in dry condition (Schmidt 2006).
