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How to use the word subsistence in a Sentence?

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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

added by Normando
1 year ago

We’ve moved from subsistence or family aquaculture to aquaculture as an employment generator.

Ngala Tombuh

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We didn't foresee this result, conservatively, our data refutes some recent claims regarding the role of archaic humans in wiping out prehistoric elephants, ever since big game hunting became a crucial part of our ancestors' subsistence strategy around 1.5 million years ago.

Zhang Hanwen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

The Troop Support Subsistence team is a dedicated group of employees who take pride in ensuring that deployed service members can experience an enjoyable holiday meal each Thanksgiving.

The DLA Troop Support staff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.”

Black Hawk

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Look where we are on welfare. We plow a chunk of cash into subsistence benefits, and people are still poor. There's no way out. People who are born poor stay poor, i'll spell out where we're at, that we're piling too much dough into a welfare system that's focused on corrective treatment.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The rules help ensure that any exploratory drilling operations in this highly challenging environment will be conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, while protecting the marine, coastal and human environments, and Alaska Natives’ cultural traditions and access to subsistence resources.

Janice Schneider

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The rules help ensure that any exploratory drilling operations in this highly challenging environment will be conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, while protecting the marine, coastal, and human environments, and Alaska Natives’ cultural traditions and access to subsistence resources.

Janice Schneider

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Food and water is the biggest issue in Vanuatu at the moment, so many people are subsistence farmers and entire crops have been lost.

Evan Schuurman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Everyone in Tanna and other islands in the south, they really live subsistence lives, so they grow what they need for a short period. ... And the reality is that much of that would have been washed away by this storm, that's a grave concern because we desperately need to get food to people soon.

Tom Perry

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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