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Example sentences for: subsistence

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During war and peace alike in this feudal age, the Church and the aristocracy continued to claim their respective portions of the peasants’ labor, leaving barely enough for subsistence.
Since then, many examples have been documented, mostly concerning subsistence techniques, such as the sweet potato washing of Japanese macaques (
The point is that in the first fifty-year segment, the lexical landscape is one of occupation and subsistence rather than exploration: it is utilitarian rather than interpretive.
Other subsistence farmers found themselves competing with cash-crop entrepreneurs (Jews and Arabs) whose successes changed the face of Palestinian agriculture.
The seals are victims not of research or of subsistence hunting, says Hunt , but of an unsubstantiated claim that their penises increase human potency ("totally inexcusable" in "what is supposed to be an enlightened age," actor William Shatner, one of a growing cast of luminaries who have signed on to the IFAW cause, has been quoted as saying).