Sentences with phrase «as subsistence»

Whatever might have been the case in 1946, most of the world now believes that whaling should be reserved for very special circumstances — such as subsistence aboriginal whaling.

VA Education Benefits Veterans Affairs benefits provided for things such as subsistence, training, and education are tax - free.

When his father was young, the boy says, he expected to live his life as a subsistence farmer, like his family had for generations.

The 58 - year - old claimed travel costs between his Oxford home and Westminster as well as subsistence for stays in London.

Not exact matches

Russian labor is to be paid wages above subsistence levels only to the extent that it can be taxed, thereby «freeing» as much non-wage income as possible from taxation — in particular, income for the privatized land, mineral resources and hitherto public utilities.

The aim of bankers is to calculate just how much their customers can pay to the FIRE sector, defined as everything they make over and above basic subsistence costs and «non-discretionary» spending.

Both understood that political agreements — such as creating corporations — make anything more than subsistence economies possible.

Dear friend that was beautiful wise full of light but will have to read it more to see the inner meanings of it... We look vertically as did Abraham looking for the Creator... While the Creator in the Quran told us that our means of subsistence and what we await are in heavens... But as well told us that if we disbelieve on what the Holy Books and the Quran came with we ought to look Horizontally as in Archeology for the nations that been mentioned and how the died for their sins and disbelief to the message or for humiliating the messengers...

The term leisure (and the use of other related words yet to be defined, e.g., play, festivity, games, etc.) might best be limited to refer only to Clawson's «fun activities,» with a more neutral term such as discretionary time being used to indicate those moments or hours free from subsistence activity.

Thomas's reply is that something can be a certain something in two ways: either as a complete subsistent individual of a species (as Socrates is of the species man), or in a more generic sense that does not exclude parts, incomplete as they may be, from subsistence.

You have got it all wrong, but may I ask that what poof do you have about what you claim, Allah is the almighty and is not a deceiver, Allah in the Qur» an in referred as the most merciful, all forgiving, creater of everything and self subsistence he does not require anyone to support him and Allah is having no son neither wife, and tell me how can a almighty supreme being have sexual relations?

Viewing Jesus as a country peasant who combined marginal farming with village carpentry, Legrand suggests that Jesus» work must have been in building houses which involved very little wood work since house construction those days was little dependent on wood.24 Therefore, additional farm work was inevitable for the sake of subsistence.

Simplicity logically follows from the definition of God as the Necessary Being; for complexity, whether material, quantitative, or even intelligible, is contrary to necessity and self — subsistence.

For example, just as those preoccupied with «justice» have paid little attention to the subsistence farmer, so also they have paid little attention to the world's most urgent energy crisis — the shortage of firewood.

This goal of liberal learning as a privilege of free men is fulfilled in America and in other advanced industrial societies in the sense that problems of subsistence

Employment is understood as working for wages, and since subsistence farmers do not receive wages they are not considered among the employed.

Unlike Louverture, they have portrayed subsistence farming as a legitimate — even a more ecologically benign — alternative to commercial agriculture, rather than the economic calamity it was.

In an earlier day, when a «substance» philosophy was prevalent, this was talked about as «the divine subsistence,» not only as if God were to be distinguished from the world but also as if God's existence was somehow other than God's activity.

As land once used for subsistence farming is transferred to plantations growing food for export, the GNP is likely to rise, but the ability of ordinary people to feed themselves declines.

In today's global economy, few workers receive subsistence pay as thus defined.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers.

But most workers were paid more than subsistence wages as defined by economists.

If their wage was subsistence, as it is fair to assume it was in premodern societies, then his prohibition had the immediate practical effect of securing for them seven days» pay for six days» work.

For others, for example, resident devotees of the San Francisco Zen Center or ashram residents of the 3H0 movement, jobs are seen only as means to subsistence, having no value in themselves.

One isolated ridge - top in the Andean foothills of western Ecuador, only twenty square kilo - meters in area, lost as many as ninety unique plant species when the last of its forest was cleared to plant subsistence crops (Wolf 1987).

For the mode of subsistence, which makes a nature capable of substantially existing to actually substantially exist, can not be an accident, since it helps constitute the substance as a substance.

In a society where virtually all property is in an immediate sense the means of subsistence rather than items of mere convenience or luxury or pleasure or whim, to steal is potentially as great a violation of human integrity as to murder or to commit adultery.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

The system includes a diversity of cash and subsistence crops (e.g. bananas, coffee, yams, and beans) as well as livestock.

Your family looks up to you not only as a source of subsistence, but also for comfort and safety.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

A croft is often referred to jovially as a piece of land surrounded by red tape, but it is a system of subsistence land - holding created by the 1886 Crofting Act to give security of tenure to those in the areas where the Highland Clearances had been savage.

Nikos Theocarakis thinks the ability of families to keep supporting their unemployed younger family members is rapidly disappearing: «The grandparents» pensions have been cut so they need it for themselves as they are at subsistence level... there is no fat left to support those who are unemployed.»

When on official Departmental business, a PPS receives travel and subsistence allowance paid out of government funds, as with formal members of the government.

To start with, Ekweremadu's subsistence as DSP has nothing to do with the so - called «beauty of democracy».

He commended Gov. Yahaya Bello, for his commitment towards making Kogi the agricultural hub of Nigeria, which had encouraged farmers to see agriculture as a business and no longer subsistence farming.

And it will recommend an end to the # 25 - a-day «subsistence allowance» - which allows MPs to claim for food and other items without a receipt - as well as cutbacks to claims for first class rail travel and travel within London.

«As an ordinary member of the House of Lords, he will be entitled to a basic subsistence allowance of # 300 a day.

They serve many functions, such as forming the core of livelihood for subsistence fishermen and even function as jewelry and construction materials.

Gracer wants people to move away from getting their protein from traditional livestock such as cows, pigs, and chickens because raising livestock has a huge negative impact on the environment, regardless of whether the animals belong to subsistence farmers in developing countries or a Western industrial conglomerate.

As the mining boom waned in the early 20th century, local communities turned to other subsistence activities, including flower collecting.

The Levant (i.e. modern - day Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria) has long been recognised as an important region associated with changes in social complexity and shifts in subsistence economy that pre-empted the shift to agriculture and farming.

Use of a range of wild species of fruit, vegetables, condiments and medicines, as well as wild animal - sourced foods, increase the likelihood that subsistence farmers with access to natural ecosystems meet their nutrition and health needs.

Far from clinging to livestock as temperatures fell, the Norse instead managed a successful subsistence system with «flexibility and capacity to adapt,» wrote the author of the 2012 paper, Jette Arneborg from the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

«My guess is that once hunting became unimportant to subsistence, people continued to make arrowheads to keep them as ornamental objects, to exchange for trade, or to pass on to their children,» says Shen.

The wild marama bean (Tylosema esculentum), a legume that could serve as a sustainable crop in subsistence regions, is collected for a research collaboration between undergraduates at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Namibia.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.