Word Finder - subsistence

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Real being; existence.

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The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.

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Inherency.

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the subsistence of qualities in bodies

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Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.

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Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

A life-renter can only grant a lease that is effectual during the subsistence of the life-rent.

The means of subsistence are mainly provided by the cultivation of grain and cattle-rearing.

Agriculture is the chief means of subsistence; rice being a crop of particular importance.

The circumstances which render necessary the habitual pursuit of wild animals, either as a means of subsistence or for self-defence, generally accompany a phase of human progress distinctly inferior to the pastoral and agricultural stages; resorted to as a recreation, however, the practice of the chase in most cases indicates a considerable degree of civilization, and sometimes ultimately becomes the almost distinctive employment of the classes which are possessed of most leisure and wealth.

But the development of means of subsistence has been outstripped by the growth of population in recent years.

Such a rate of increase invests the question of subsistence with great importance.

The power that gall-producers possess of influencing by direct interference the growth of the cells of the plant that affords them the means of subsistence is an art that appears to be widely spread among animals, but is at the same time one of which we have little knowledge.

The ideal is equality, and no measure of a minimum of subsistence can really be devised.

But it is the duty of the individual to his possible offspring, and not any vague notions as to the pressure of the national population on subsistence, that will be adequate to influence conduct.

Desolate bogs, incapable of cultivation, alternate with the mountains; and the inhabitants earn a scanty subsistence by fishing and tillage, or by seeking employment in England and Scotland during the harvesting.

By the law of God and man you should have subsistence and lawful to take it."

On the southern it mostly consists of lofty, bleak moorland, affording subsistence for sheep and cattle, and rugged glens and ravines, while on the northern there are many stretches of fertile soil, especially in the valleys and dales, and the landscape is often romantic and beautiful.

As these waste places have been gradually brought under the plough, in England and Scotland particularly, the haunts and means of subsistence of the linnet have been curtailed, and hence its numbers have undergone a very visible diminution throughout Great Britain.

After an independent subsistence of nearly 200 years, the Suevian kingdom was annexed to the Visigothic dominions under Leovigild in 585.

The catching of the numerous sea-birds which build their nests upon the face of the cliffs forms an important source of subsistence to the inhabitants.

For this they received a subsistence allowance of nine pence.

Travel and subsistence expenses only will be paid in such cases.

For the next six years he lived in St Louis, Missouri, earning a scanty subsistence by farming and dealings in real estate.

Precarious as these means of subsistence seem, he preferred the independence thus obtained to an assured position which would have involved obligations to a patron or professional duties which his weak health would have made onerous.

Since the advance of civilization and indis c riminate slaughter have deprived them of the bison, g p so long their natural means of subsistence, the northwest tribes have been maintained chiefly at the expense of the country.

Under the system of grazing practised throughout Australia it is customary to allow sheep, cattle and horses to run at large all the year round within enormous enclosures and to depend entirely upon the natural growth of grass for their subsistence.

This great source of supply, when apparently most abundant and secure, was shortly after suddenly cut off, and thousands were for a time deprived of employment and the means of subsistence.

Agriculture, fisheries and import and export trade furnish the chief means of subsistence.

By the end of the century, however, owing to a great extent to the publication of the essays of Malthus, the pendulum had swung far in the opposite direction, it was thought desirable to possess the means of judging from time to time the relations between an increasing population and the means of subsistence.

His father shared the theories on that subject of Condorcet and Godwin; and his son combated them on the ground that the realization of a happy society will always be hindered by the miseries consequent on the tendency of population to increase faster than the means of subsistence.

Most of them were married and had families; money was collected in order to help those who were suddenly deprived of their means of subsistence.

His literary and journalistic labours occupied much of his time, and were his chief means of subsistence.

At the small towns along the river it is nearly impossible to obtain beef, vegetables, or fruit of any sort, and the inhabitants depend largely upon river fish, mandioc, and canned goods for their subsistence."

A further increase of £26,000,000 a year in the trade with the colonies might be obtained by a preferential tariff, and this meant additional employment at home for 166,000 workmen, or subsistence for a population of a far larger number.

For sheer subsistence he had to hire his sword to the pope and quell petty rebellions with a handful of men.

In rural areas, the ongoing marginalization of poor farmers has led them to depend increasingly upon subsistence agriculture.

Subsistence peasant agriculture was not the subject of any systematic statistical surveys.

There was evidence that the candidate would have sufficient monies to meet tutorial fees and subsistence costs while studying at the university.

No traveling or subsistence allowance will be paid by the University.

Many families in Ireland lived on small crofts growing their own food, largely at subsistence level.

Note that the PHF grant covers the course fee, not travel or subsistence expenses.

Yet, India has far to go in improving the lives and productivity of its subsistence farmers.

At present 75 per cent of the population is involved in subsistence farming.

They are objects of desire and exchange, actors in subsistence, ceremonial and market economies and sites of deep projective identification.

Cash crops are produced for commercial and subsistence purposes and include oil palm, cocoa, rubber and timber.

The old methods of subsistence farming disappeared with the rural peasantry.

Can I use my travel warrants for home to duty travel instead of claiming subsistence?

London is home to almost three quarters of all UK asylum seekers receiving subsistence only.

Having paid the rent, nine shillings remained from William's weekly wage to provide a minimum subsistence.

Such a proposal would have a significant impact- 40% of asylum seekers supported by NASS have elected to have the subsistence only package.

The fragile urban economy provides many with only the barest subsistence.

Any claim for overnight expenses must be accompanied by the hotel receipt and is claimed instead of daily subsistence.

He began to give away everything he received except what was needed for his basic subsistence.

In the long run, the robber destroys his own subsistence by dwindling or eliminating the source of his own supply.

This most important augmentation in the supply of human subsistence has now commenced.