Sentences with phrase «in subsistence»

The Solomon Islands is a lesser - developed nation, and more than 75 percent of its labor force is engaged in subsistence farming and fishing.

A key concern with the Draft framework was the apparent failure to measure involvement in the subsistence economy and traditional activities as against the market economy.

She receives # 80.5 per week in subsistence and utility costs.

At the time of separation they were living in subsistence conditions.

There can be no demographic transition if most people remain in subsistence agrarian economies.

«Although polar bear hides taken in the subsistence hunt have commercial value, revenues from nonresident trophy hunting provide a much greater economic return to the Inuit.

From all I have seen, all of these programs are designed to benefit a select few (through fraudulent trading schemes) at a catastrophic cost to everyone else, including the poor caught in subsistence conditions.

There are billions of people living in subsistence farming communities, and displaced because of human caused wars and subsequent famines.

People do not discover humanity in subsistence.

The indigenous Mayan communities that still exist today are the Mopan, Yucatec, and Q'eqchi» Maya who primarily live in southern Belize and engage in subsistence farming.

The economy is overwhelmingly agricultural with most engaged in subsistence farming.

*** (However, Kojima's decision to stick MGS3 with a top - down camera is still inexcuseable, which Konami admitted by re-releasing the game with a better camera in Subsistence.

Beginning as an additional mode in the Subsistence update to Snake Eater, MGO has evolved over the years, taking cues from MGS3, MGS4 and, eventually, MGS5 to create one of the strangest competitive modes ever devised.

Even for those who have played and beaten the original Snake Eater, there is enough completely original content in Subsistence to provide several dozen hours of offline entertainment, not to mention an online multiplayer feature with massive replay value.

Rich in protein, oil, and starch, the marama bean is a tuber - producing perennial legume that could serve as a sustainable crop in subsistence regions.

It has long been hypothesized that there was variation in the subsistence practices used by Indus populations and this fits with the theme of coping with diverse environments.

«It's not due to some massive change in subsistence, it's not archaeological, it's not technological.

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.

It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.

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.

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

Non-certified organic agriculture in developing countries is practised by millions of indigenous people, peasants and small family farms involved in subsistence and local market - oriented production.

In contrast, environmentalists who call for the developing world to return to a non-existent organic arcadia are forgetting the reality of farming in a subsistence economy.

To follow his «small is beautiful» vision is to relegate eventually everyone to slow death in subsistence cultures.»

Not exact matches

and «Will physical changes in the Arctic affect ecosystems that commercial and subsistence fisheries depend on?»

The storm flooded fields and destroyed crops in places like Haiti and Cuba, where many people are subsistence farmers.

On a 2009 trip to see subsistence coffee growers in that country, Schultz met a woman named Mukamwiza Immaculate and asked what she most dreamed of having.

Back in 1979, when Bruce Bowers started his company, TRC Industries, a Stow, Ohio, silicon - rubber manufacturer, he paid himself a subsistence salary.

No matter how appealing the idea of urban agriculture may seem to outsiders, a laid - off Detroit autoworker probably has little interest in a return to subsistence farming.

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.

Hoyes, a paleoethnobotanist who specializes in reconstructing prehistoric subsistence, stated that only thing unifying the myriad diets that she's studied has been their diversity.

The bankers» ideal is for the entire surplus over and above bare subsistence to be paid in the form of interest and fees — all disposable personal income, corporate cash flow and real estate rent.

Diao added that while cash transfers have been used in humanitarian contexts before, this initiative is a significant departure from the status quo because they're giving families transformative amounts of money versus small, subsistence amounts.

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...

It is obvious that in the areas of education, employment training, enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, and the provision of minimal subsistence to the impoverished, the government must be involved.

In these societies subsistence agriculture is primary.

And if we compare the condition of the poor in urban slums with that of the poor on subsistence farms, my own judgment is that there is more loss than gain.

The American frontier was called a new world, but it was a peasant subsistence very much like what had been known for centuries in the old.

One of them — in fact, the lead one in the article arguing for the soul's subsistence — is quite inextricably bound up in Aristotle's very crude physiology of perception.

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.

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.

The word hypostasis literally means «one subsistence or substance», although, to add to the complication, it was used in rather different senses by different theologians.

Growing sectors of the populations are denied access to education, basic health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no access to information highways and hardly a chance to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.

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?

I can also explain the subsistence of matter in a similar way, by saying that the holomovement provides for the subsistence of matter.

We will say that particles are orders in the holomovement, which have the character of subsistence, a certain repetitiveness, stability, and so on.

It feels like a carrot dangled to primitive people that were struggling with basic subsistence, with little hope of a comfortable life in this world.

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.

It can not be doubted, even if it is granted that Nazareth specialized in carpentry, that most of the residents of the village occupied themselves regularly with subsistence agriculture.