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Sentence Examples The business, as a trading enterprise, continued to subsist as an identifiable item of property. The mountains, for the most part, had been ignored by the tiny seaside town that barely managed to subsist on the fish it caught each year. He lost an eye and both hands while on missionary work in Afghanistan and has had to subsist on benefits ever since. About half the people eat rice as their staple, while the remainder subsist on wheat, barley, maize, and millet. Of course, no one is suggesting that Congress subsist on a regular diet of impeachments. Just as carnivores eat meat and herbivores eat plant matter, frugivores subsist primarily on fruit. They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds. The Asmat subsist by fishing and by harvesting wild sago trees, whose pith is carbohydrate-rich. They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth. The inhabitants of the forest area subsist on cassava, bananas, plantains, palm-nut-oil, forest caterpillars, and the leaf of a wild plant. The children refuse all human food until they are given newly shelled beans, upon which provender they subsist until they learn to eat bread. That was the food supply on which we were going to subsist after the apocalypse. Historically, Arabs in Sudan tend to practice nomadic pastoralism, and black Africans tend to subsist through sedentary agriculture. Otto Herz and Eugen Pfizenmayer, who made the discovery, wondered if they shouldn't eat it, rather than continue to subsist on horseflesh. The room's sink, dishwasher, cooktop, and refrigerator mean the clients don't have to subsist on takeout meals. The Old Firm clubs attract a combined attendance of 110,000 to every home game, but subsist on 20 per cent of the television revenue level of Premiership sides. If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar. The Atta ants subsist almost exclusively on a particular species of fungus which they cultivate on a medium of masticated leaf tissue. Caribou subsist on low-lying mosses or lichens they scrape off the tundra with their hooves. Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it. Show More Sentences Most people are smallholders, producing just enough food to subsist on and perhaps a few cash crops. Those most affected will be smaller labs, or new investigators to the field, who already subsist on next to nothing. When we have no money for food or for job provision, are we to be made to subsist on arms? At the provincial level, the four household types continued to subsist on meagre levels of support. Welfare recipients are among the poorest of the poor and have to subsist on incomes far below what most people would consider reasonable. Small stable rural communities could subsist on the natural resources in their environment without depleting them. Since then, the Organization has had to subsist on a progression of no-growth regular budgets. Waterway pollution has pronounced effects on communities that subsist on nature. While some indigenous people continue to subsist on fishing, hunting, and gathering food, others manage multi-faceted enterprises. A substantial number of the San live in government-created Remote Area Dweller settlements and subsist on social welfare benefits. These doves subsist almost entirely on seeds collected from low herbage or the ground. Why does our government think it's okay for them to subsist on french fries and soda? She announced her intention to subsist on a diet of water and fish broth, an estimated 200-400 calories per day. But in the second way, 'immaterial' is said of subsistent forms forms that subsist without matter like angels or spiritual substances in general. According to Italos, therefore, both subsistences and beings that subsist in something else are beings, and thus do not depend on mere thought. A Community design shall not subsist in a design which is contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality. A residual effect is one that would subsist after the application of mitigation measures. Although, in view of the difficult economic context, the overall picture is thus fairly positive, a number of risks nevertheless subsist. Concerns do subsist, however, with regard to the longterm impact of industrial activities on health. These groups need their arms to subsist, and they are often unsure that promises made in return for disarmament will be fulfilled. Show More Sentences Despite an impressive commitment to the Treaty itself, differing implementation priorities subsist. Attaining such enhancements will surely require serious increases in funding to Inuit broadcast organizations, most of which presently subsist on bare bones budgets. He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms. And their tanks are rainwater tanks and so the amount of water they receive from our header tanks is basically just enough to subsist on until the next big rain event. They figured that the demons would not be able to subsist by themselves. As the company did not state that it will cease selling to this customer or that it will adapt its export prices, it can be concluded that the pattern will subsist. This also permits them to subsist on food with lower nutritive value than smaller animals. We subsist happily with several varieties of e-coli living in our gut. Their digestive systems allow them to subsist on diets of lower nutritional quality than that necessary for other herbivores. Because informal sector earnings are generally very low, few families can subsist on one income. But these images reinforce false assumptions about the causes and effects of disasters, and especially about the people and cultural communities that subsist in zones of vulnerability. Some candidate countries are already prepared to play an active role in European RTD activity and to allocate the necessary funds, but financial and organisational constraints subsist in most of them. After the death of the author, this resale royalty right shall subsist for the remainder of the current Gregorian year and for the following 50 years. The book chronicles four friends living in Atlanta who subsist by sedating themselves with platinum-level shopping sprees in elite malls. They live in luxury while ordinary citizens barely subsist. No one mentions the fact that Europe as a region is among the world's largest importers of food and that, if we maintain this standard of living, we shall barely be able to subsist. Here they stay in a filthy flophouse, live with refugees, and subsist on meager scraps. Some birds, such as hermit thrushes, subsist on wild fruit like sumac and poison ivy. Man cannot subsist on glamour alone, and Cannes knows it. Single employable people are frequently vilified by governments and are invariably forced to subsist on incomes far below Canada's unofficial poverty lines. Show More Sentences Her children, ages 4 to 15, subsist on aid rations. They lay eggs, and they subsist on insects and spiders. In countries where large numbers of farmers subsist on very low incomes, local processing of bioenergy through community cooperatives could provide extra income and social inclusion for poor families. Courts in Kenya have as a matter of judicial precedence held that a marriage will be presumed to subsist if the couple cohabit and present themselves to the world as husband and wife. The 50,000 native Socotris, speaking four dialects of a singsong ancient language unintelligible to other Yemenis, subsist on fish, goats and not much else. Crofters no longer have to subsist on a few braxy sheep and a Shetland pony. Pregnant ewes can run on late pasture as long as it is available and abundant but in winter subsist satisfactorily on well-cured legume hay or mixed hay carrying a high percentage of legume. Lacking political and economic power, blacks were forced to subsist on a severely limited and eroded land base within black homelands and townships. In the case of anonymous or pseudonymous works, copyright shall subsist for 50 years as from the date on which the work has been lawfully made available to the public. But the habitual state of grace may subsist with habits of venial sin, with attachments, probably slight, but that we do not wish to break, in short, with a very harmful and dangerous state of lukewarmness. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment. These fleets will subsist until the beginning of the 19th century. These effects are quite dramatic at the village of Alby, for example, where the Iron Age inhabitants were known to subsist on substantial coastal fishing. Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people. Examples from Classical Literature Her friendly relations with him continued to subsist even after his marriage. More often the supply runs short and the tribe has to subsist for several weeks on bamboo shoots and forest roots. That attachment and affiance, which ought to subsist between the dependant and his protector, are destroyed. It is manifest that a court would subsist as difficultly without this kind of coin as a trading city without paper credit. Between next-door neighbours in the area of Greater London there subsist relations of an infinite delicacy. And our hard-hearted rulers, with all their pride, can they subsist without us? He is a poet, and, according to his idea of that race, they subsist entirely upon porridge or on sowens. It is said that a person can subsist longer upon them than upon any other kind. It is the property of five Tartar families, who subsist largely on its fruit. Have you considered what it is to undermine the confidence that should subsist between my daughter and myself? Consequently, I could subsist for quite a length of time without particularly bestirring myself. Their winter quarters are upon the Racine Amere, where they subsist upon roots and dried buffalo meat. But around older stars, traces of gas within the debris disks may subsist but fall below the limits of detection, Lyra says. I give this catalogue so precisely because, as it happened, we were destined to subsist upon this store for the next fortnight. You ask me why, tho' ill at ease Within this region I subsist? Those of us who are alive in the morning will subsist upon the enemy. A few beavers were taken every night, and salmon trout of a small size, so that the camp had principally to subsist upon dried buffalo meat. An agglomeration of bipeds who subsist on one another's shanks. I could but subsist on the difference between the rent I paid for my flat and the rent at which I had sublet it, furnished, for the season. No relation involving divided duties and continual intercourse between two people can subsist permanently on love alone. Show More Sentences What relation is to subsist between the nine or more States ratifying the Constitution, and the remaining few who do not become parties to it? The same quality, moreover, is said to subsist in a thing in varying degrees at different times. Do you imagine that a state can subsist and not be overthrown, in which the decisions of law have no power, but are set aside and trampled upon by individuals? Find more words! 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