Sentences with phrase «at subsistence»

Unemployed and on public assistance for most of the time since the original court order, he was not even at a subsistence level of income.

If they're at subsistence level, they are currently struggling to feed themselves and their families.

Consider that a pretty hefty percentage of the world lives at subsistence and draw you own conclusions as to the effects of converting arable land into biofuel production.

A personal exemption, in theory, is equivalent to the minimum amount a person would need to get by on at a subsistence level.

The Hunger Games is set in a future North America where the nation of Panem is divided between the elites in the capital and those living at subsistence levels in the twelve surrounding districts.

Churchill's safety net is at the bottom: holding people at subsistence level, just above the abyss of hunger and homelessness.

Some supported the proposal on equity and fairness grounds, since elites were already perceived to benefit disproportionately from the state's resources, through special - interest appropriations of oil wealth, and because it would bring a huge benefit to low - income Alaskans and those living at a subsistence level.

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.»

Not exact matches

At age ninety and with no heirs, Jeanne agreed to sell her apartment to Raffray for the price of a low monthly subsistence payment of 2,500 francs.

In Old Testament times the problem of subsistence was frequently so difficult and national calamities fell with such repeated dreadfulness that much of the supplication recorded was motived by crisis and was aimed at material recovery.

Overpopulation perhaps could not exist in the Garden of Eden, but our first parents were cast into a different place, where the ground yields subsistence grudgingly and sometimes not at all.

At a time when the Patriarchate paid Arab priests a subsistence salary which forced them to rely on fees from baptisms, weddings and funerals to feed their families, it was charged that monies sent from Imperial Russia and other Orthodox countries for the welfare of the Arab Orthodox went directly into the pockets of the bishops and the patriarch.

Nothing with such a subsistence ceases to exist by the perishing of the body, and therefore there is in the human being that which thinks and understands which does not cease to exist at death, and which I have proved in Chapter XIII - XIV to be the principle of unity of the whole human being, the soul.

The condition insured at least subsistence, and to this extent it may be considered, like the institution of blood revenge, a progressive social measure for its time.

For common folks, at stake are not just ideologies and political utopias — which they have little time for anyway — but their own subsistence in extreme situations where even their basic necessities are unmet.

Most farming in Ethiopia is subsistence, so vegetables and animals are often grown and raised at home.

In the deep South, when subsistence farming was at it's lowest point, it was a commonly held truth that moms lost a «tooth per pregnancy.»

I hope they will aim to raise the initial tax threshold to the current subsistence level (even if over a few years), simplify the benefit system so that benefit claimants receive in effect a weekly wage or monthly salary instead of a number of dribs and drabs (all of which require horrendous forms), amalgamate NI with IT and then look at introducing a flat tax to cover the lot.

The clerk of the parliaments, Michael Pownall, published a ruling yesterday in which he found that Rennard's claims for overnight subsistence allowance were «in accordance with the rules and guidance on members» expenses applicable at the time».

A upper middle class higher managerial, administrative or professional B middle class intermediate managerial, administrative or professional C1 lower middle class supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional C2 skilled working class skilled manual workers D working class semi and unskilled manual workers E those at lowest level of subsistence state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers

«And the poor suckers are usually poorer or, at best, subsistence.»

For example, narwhals in northwest Greenland have long been hunted by subsistence hunters, notes study co-author Fernando Ugarte, head of the department of birds and mammals at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk.

And immigrants from Southeast Asia also may be at higher risk because many are subsistence fishers, said Christina Medina of the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, Calif..

Those most at risk are people whose recent ancestors led subsistence lives.

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.

To qualify you must be registered for a Ph.D. at a university in a member state, and you must have your own financial support: The programme only pays a subsistence allowance for the periods spent at CERN.

Gary Toenniessen, associate director of agricultural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, which funded part of the work, says that the initiative will allow Mexican subsistence farmers to grow and sell potatoes carrying a gene owned by Monsanto, a US biotech - nology company.

Isotope evidence for mobility, subsistence practice, and status at West Heslerton.

In 2011 barley seeds were recovered from pre-Hispanic grain silos at three archaeological sites on Gran Canaria: Guayadeque — Cuevas Muchas (henceforth Subsistence mosaics, forager - farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa

Subsistence's improvements allowed the quality of the underlying game to shine through at last — and what a brilliant game it was.

The actors — especially the lead, Jennifer Lawrence, so good in films like Winter's Bone and Silver Linings Playbook — gave lackluster performances, and looked too well - fed and healthy to convincingly portray members of a population existing at a bare subsistence level.

Razza makes a subsistence living by filling plastic balls with small stones, which he sells as toys at the local market.

Special advisory and technical experts and consultants appointed pursuant to this subsection shall, while performing their functions under this section, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding the daily pay rate, for a person employed as a GS - 18 under section 5332 of title 45, United States Code, including traveltime, and while serving away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of such title 5 for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

(2) Any such experts or consultants shall, while serving pursuant to such contracts, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding the pro rata pay rate for a person employed as a GS - 18, under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, including traveltime, and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

Witnesses who attend at points so far removed from their respective residences as to prohibit return thereto from day to day shall be entitled to an additional allowance of $ 10 per day for expenses of subsistence including the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the place of attendance.

The need for work comes from somewhat unfortunate life circumstances (e.g. divorce and some unwise financial sacrifices) that left him with only subsistence income at this point in life.

We assume MoneySense readers aspire to more than a subsistence - style retirement, so our tax columnist Evelyn Jacks looks at the three key tax phases for those at or approaching retirement.

One proposed project would document traditional Alaska Native place names for bodies of water, bays, mountains, valleys, promontories or other geographic landmarks in these units, thus also greatly enhancing our knowledge of how the parklands facilitated subsistence and functioned as a cultural crossroads for at least 9,000 years.

The real beginning, though, with the original Metal Gear for the MSX (or at least the ported version of it, which is available on Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence as an extra).

The folks from Game Informer Online were at the Konami Gamer's Day in San Francisco this week, and caught up with former game journalist and current Metal Gear Saga director Ryan Payton for information on the MGS 3: Subsistence pre-order DVD documentary, neatly explained by GameSpot, noting that the doc»... does the seemingly impossible by making sense of the five major games in the Metal Gear canon.»

At the same time, Winkler's contextualization of pastoral materials within the white cube gallery space foregrounds moral issues of subsistence amid our urban and cosmopolitan surroundings.

They were produced during her recent residency at Camden Arts Centre, April - June 2012 and their installation at the Zabludowicz Collection runs concurrently to Dual Spectrum Subsistence, 2012, at Modern Art Oxford.

The situation in Rwanda in the»90s, for example, didn't just happen because of some irrational ethnic or political agenda, it happened at least in part because too many people had too little land to support themselves, yet everyone depended on small - scale farming (average farm size on the order of a few acres) for subsistence.

This holds farmers hostage to patented varieties at prices that continually rise — a practice that hurts all farmers, but especially those in developing countries where such hikes can mean the difference between a subsistence crop and starvation.

A considerable share of world resources must be devoted to maintaining the poor 82 % at at least subsistence.

Urban agriculture is a dynamic concept that comprises a variety of livelihood systems, ranging from subsistence production and processing at household level to fully commercialised agriculture.

HSI will oppose Japan's proposal for small - vessel coastal whaling, which HSI considers a violation of the 30 - year - old moratorium on commercial whaling, and argue for the highest standard of scientific scrutiny in regard to Denmark's application for an increased whaling quota for Greenland and other aboriginal subsistence whaling proposals being considered at this year's meeting.

This leads to a more utilitarian arguement that, at what point is it better (economically for the state) for the state to enable people to live more prosperous, productive lives rather than leave them to rely on the state for subsistence?

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Though the bulk of humanity is far richer and healthier than at any time in history, there are places on earth where the way people live is little different from the subsistence levels of the past.