Sample Sentences forsubsistence (auto-selected)
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An important condition was the transition from a subsistence economy to a monetary economy.† (source)
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We're also trying to keep open the agricultural extension program, training former rubber workers to subsistence farming.† (source)
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There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space — it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole.† (source)
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Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.† (source)
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Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child.† (source)
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The subsistence individual, with cropped hair and bony shoulders.† (source)
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PoorYoga Janet was a vegetarian and resigned herself to a subsistence diet most of the time.† (source)
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She was managing to survive slightly above the subsistence level, but only because she was lucky.† (source)
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I liked the trips of course—I drew operational subsistence which helped.† (source)
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The ruling class paid African labor a subsistence wage and then added value to the cost of the goods, which they retained for themselves.† (source)
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Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world.† (source)
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You have never discovered the industrial age-and you cling to the morality of the barbarian eras when a miserable form of human subsistence was produced by the muscular labor of slaves.† (source)
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"Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families," Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.† (source)
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However well disposed a person may be, why you see we leave off after a time seeing persons who are in sorrow, they make one melancholy; and so at last old Dantes was left all to himself, and I only saw from time to time strangers go up to him and come down again with some bundle they tried to hide; but I guessed what these bundles were, and that he sold by degrees what he had to pay for his subsistence.† (source)
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After some consideration, he went into business as an Informer, in which calling he realises a genteel subsistence.† (source)
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She had come out of her first illness alive with new hopes, expecting so much, yet deprived of any subsistence except Dick, bringing up children she could only pretend gently to love, guided orphans.† (source)
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