Once ashore, they're obliged to subsist only on their stored fat while travelling to their denning area, giving birth, nursing tiny cubs through the winter, and waiting until their offspring are strong enough to travel to the sea ice the following spring.
Kyle Frandle, Santa Cruz, Calif.: Check out The Campus at Western Washington State University, where the students drove the initiative that their campus subsist only on renewable energy sources.
To watch TV only for plot is to subsist only on the dots and to disregard the rather lovely lines connecting them; you never end up with a full picture.
In the same way that viewers binge-watch multi-part TV series such as True Detective or House of Cards, music lovers don't want to subsist only on a steady diet of singles.
How they can travel hundreds of miles on their journey home, gaining thousands of feet of elevation, subsisting only off the fat they have stored.
They are spending the last few days in fasting and prayer, subsisting only on carrots and water.
So far, Mr. Sharpton has lost eight pounds subsisting only on liquid, according to Rachel Noerdlinger, his spokeswoman.
26 Famously subsisting only on cocaine, milk and red peppers, Bowie fell prey to old paranoid obsessions including UFO cover-ups, nazism and the occult while in Los Angeles.
For many years, scientists had believed that the brain, which is a very hungry organ, subsisted only on glucose, or blood sugar, which it absorbed from the passing bloodstream.
Talk story about 72-year-old William Willis' plans to sail his 11 1/2-foot sailboat, Little One, from New York City to England, by himself, subsisting only on milk, sea water, and wheat.
