Sentence examples for the only livelihood from inspiring English sources
Here in Vellapallam, the fishing dispute is deeply personal, since fishing is practically the only livelihood available.
The only livelihood I need to worry about is my own, and I'm really not all that concerned about it.
Your whole community has lost all the cattle, goats and donkeys that provided the only livelihood in this parched landscape, where even the usual meagre rains have been largely absent for the last two years or more.
Nearly every week, I see good people lose the only livelihoods they've known storied papers and magazines three generations in the business, ones that I grew up worshiping as the industry goes through an unprecedented shakeout.
For many of the residents, livestock is their only livelihood, and they will go to any lengths to protect them – including poisoning or killing the hungry beasts.
In communities such as Paraguachon — a dusty, derelict village with no schooling available past fourth grade, no formal businesses, only eight police officers, and walls of trash lining dirt roads — contraband is the only viable livelihood, village president Yudi Peralta told VICE News.
Developmental policy such as that underlying the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims to enhance not only livelihood security of people in rural areas (through guarantee of one hundred days' wage-employment) but addresses some environmental issues.
Now she fears her only livelihood will end.
My parents could not access our subsistence farmland - our only livelihood - to produce food for us last season, so we've been eating less everyday since then.
