Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Jefferson]
Farming is a hard means of subsistence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
What we call subsistence would look good to most of these workers. From Wordnik.com. [Rising Complexity] Reference
You are right; there is a difference in subsistence hunting and poaching. From Wordnik.com. [The sick world of poaching] Reference
“This may suggest a climatic change and or a shift in subsistence strategies.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps | Impact Lab] Reference
Child labor is employed in subsistence agriculture, in the household, or in the urban informal sector. From Wordnik.com. [I want two essays about CHILD LABOUR & ADULT LITERACY…plz do answer. If u noe any sites u cant telldat too.. « Adult Literacy-2 « Literacy Help « Literacy News] Reference
At this rate of increase, provided that subsistence is not overtaken, a century from now the population of. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Drift] Reference
Vast stretches of land were cleared for low-intensity cattle pasture and short-term subsistence agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Mongabay.com News] Reference
I derive more of my subsistence from the swamps which surround my native town than from the cultivated gardens in the village. From Wordnik.com. [Walking] Reference
Western Europe were very poor, barely scratching out subsistence from the poor soils they tilled and they were condemned to a short life span. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore W. Schultz - Prize Lecture] Reference
They want subsistence, which is connected to them. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
So you're not getting out of what I would call the subsistence farming mode of managing your money. From Wordnik.com. [To Bank Or Not To Bank] Reference
But he who exercises volition, that is to say the subsistence, for instance Peter, is spoken of as willing. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
All her subsistence was a little unpleasant and disagreeable broth, which I forced her to take against her will. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Madame Guyon] Reference
Moreover, one cannot speak of one compound thing made of two wills in the same way as a subsistence is a composition of two natures. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
As for the notion of subsistence affluence, I accept that graphic instances of poverty such as starvation are mercifully rare in the region. From Wordnik.com. [Australia and the Pacific Islands: Strategies for Development] Reference
And while Jen may not have to worry about it, most of them have what might best be referred to as a subsistence lifestyle, and very few of those. From Wordnik.com. [GraniteGrok] Reference
The rate of labour must therefore be high; but they wear scarcely any clothes, and their subsistence, which is jerked beef and beans, costs but little. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
This may be owing to their manner of gaining their subsistence, which is chiefly from the sea, and to their being much exposed to the sun and the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods] Reference
The wealth of the Sioux consists very largely in his horses, and his subsistence is the game of the forest and plains and the fish and wild rice of the lakes. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference
What a free market really requires is free men, and what men require to be free is access to their own means of subsistence, which is precisely what capitalism denies them. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
July was the month of harvest for the mainly "subsistence" farmers scattered along the West Branch. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
These were presumably allowed, without scientific review of their population status, for "subsistence" purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Wan: IWC, Greenpeace, and Obama Administration Aren't Standing Up for the Whales] Reference
And the natural price is the "subsistence" price -- just enough to survive -- which brings us back to Dickens's world. From Wordnik.com. [Killing the Middle Class; How the Corporatocracy Sets the Rules of the "Game" To Create Peons] Reference
Low-income activities, such as subsistence agriculture and basic industries, are forced to use marginal and unsafe water. From Wordnik.com. [Sub-regional scenarios for Africa's future~ Northern Africa] Reference
Given the relatively liquid nature of civilization, it makes sense to define "subsistence" in some dollar value of assets. From Wordnik.com. [Why Inherited Wealth is Getting More Important, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Can you tell us that there is no way to -- or is there a way that the administration might give them any kind of subsistence, or pay for anything?. From Wordnik.com. [Informal Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers] Reference
Economists have traditionally ignored sectors such as subsistence farming, the informal sector, and women's unpaid labour performed towards the reproduction of society. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Strategy and Tactics - as amended by conference ,December 1997] Reference
This sort of barter is not contradictory to nature, nor is it any species of money-getting; but is necessary in procuring that subsistence which is so consonant thereunto. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
A committee of "subsistence" has been established. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
The "subsistence" wage itself might rise, for example. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
They are never called upon to face the acute problem of subsistence, which is fundamental with us. ". From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Egolatry] Reference
It is our towns which alone afford the growing subsistence which is the warrant of an increment of population. From Wordnik.com. [The Coal Question~ Of the Growth and Migrations of our Population] Reference
I was fully impressed with the necessity of removal, but I knew not whither to go, or what kind of subsistence to seek. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
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