Sentences with phrase «simply put food on the table»

Given the difficulty of not only breaking out but also making a living as an actor, such detours to franchises may be explained as a way for performers to simply put food on the table, after years of struggle.

Not only is this frustrating, it is very scary for those who work hard to simply put food on the table, but then end up losing their check to the government.

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Play restaurant with your kids when you have food to put on the table or when they simply want to pretend.

As such scenes make clear, «Mudbound» is a story about fighters, whether defending the country from Hitler or simply trying to put food and milk on the table.

I know some authors who simply can't afford the time that would take; they have to publish book a year to put food on the table.

Most writers are simply trying to put food on the table so they don't have to go back to the day job.

Private breeders and expo sellers, meanwhile, are often in the marketplace simply to subsidize their hobby; and they are not driven by the necessity of selling herps to put food on the table.

And as though the working, poor, and struggling families of this country and every other country are somehow responsible for solving the climate crisis, which they did nothing to create, by themselves — even as they're forced to rely on fossil fuels, through no fault of their own, simply to put food on the table.

While corporations and large landowners have ever - increasing capacity to deforest, the recent shift seems to offer new opportunities for rainforest conservation in that it is easier for pressure groups to target corporations and enterprises rather than tens of millions of poor farmers who are simply trying to put food on the table for their families.