Sentences with phrase «family subsisted»

Harkness had received no scholarship offers — «Nobody wanted me,» he says — and, since his family subsisted largely on welfare, he couldn't afford to go to school anywhere on his own.

The metaphor of a nation functioning as a super family subsists as a socially constituted image in several languages.

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Far from subsisting on rice and beans, McCurry eats «5 - star meals» made from scratch at home, vacations with his family and spends time outdoors hiking and swimming.

Each family needs at least two wage earners to subsist.

While there is no single cure - all for vitamin A deficiency, Golden Rice could become an important complementary intervention to ensure that all those who need vitamin A get it, including those families in Bangladesh subsisting primarily on rice.

Lower - income families don't subsist on junk food and fast food because they lack nutritional education, as some have argued.

I pretty much subsisted on meat, potatoes and corn at our family dinners in Halifax.

Juggling full - time work, a young family and a passion for writing, he subsists on late nights, early mornings and a little too much coffee.

A $ 20k payout would likely be far more than enough to cover funeral expenses, but may not be enough to set up your family to subsist without you as a sole provider.

The firm also devoted itself to saving Koishihama, a 30 - family fishing village that subsisted on scallop farming.