Sentences with phrase «survive on many»

According to Nembrini, the people of Monrovia had to survive on rainwater and a hundred or so hand - dug wells, most of which were dug by the Red Cross.

(Only the females take blood meals, which they require for maturing their eggs; the males survive on flower nectar in the wild and sugar water in the lab.)

Children were 30.9 per cent more likely to survive on the Titanic, compared with passengers over 35, while on the Lusitania children had no better survival chance.

«They had to endure voyages between islands and subsequently survive on those islands,» says Minster.

In the modern world, these sites are characterized by an unusual abundance of tube worms, bivalves (clams), molluscs, and other animals that survive on the microbial mats that grow there.

Suggestions of hydrothermal activity on Europa led researchers to speculate that life there could resemble ecosystems around hydrothermal vents on Earth and would survive on chemosynthesis, extracting energy from chemicals.

Then again, getting a medical degree without accumulating a massive amount of debt is a big advantage — especially if you plan to survive on research - scientist salaries instead of becoming a high - dollar medical specialist — and there aren't very many ways to get a medical degree without accumulating debt.

Astronauts on a mission to Mars or beyond may be able to survive on plants watered with their own urine.

The minuscule, cigar - shaped bacterium can survive on a diet of TNT.

The offspring of Manduca sexta, however, survive on only a few host plant species, such as tobacco.

Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.

To really determine whether stowaway bacteria would survive on Mars, experiments need to use more complex surfaces, «not the kind of configurations that microbial ecologists find easy to count,» he says.

«But the smaller size of coyotes appears to give them dietary flexibility to survive on a wider variety of food and prey sizes, making them less predictable predators of large prey.

The ferrets survive on a diet of mostly prairie dogs and had nearly gone extinct in the 1970s due to centuries of habitat loss, prey declines and plague.

«Around 40 or 50 spider species have been documented drinking nectar, but this is the first case where a spider has been shown to survive on plant matter,» says Ken Whitney of Rice University in Houston, Texas.

We have known bacteria to survive on a variety of energy sources, but none as weird as this.

Although Canadian hospitals promote vigorous hand - washing, the facilities themselves can be contaminated with this resistant germ, which forms spores that survive on surfaces.

Technology has always had a hand in determining how many of us can survive on the planet.

NASA is also interested in things that live deep underground because such organisms often survive on very little energy and they may suggest modes of life in other parts of the solar system.

The dust trap provides a safe haven for the tiny rocks in the disc, allowing them to clump together and grow to sizes that allow them to survive on their own.

Without these benefits, it would have been impossible for her to survive on her meagre wages, as the cost of living in Istanbul is comparable to those of most European cities.

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and other nearby outposts can survive on supplies shipped from Earth, but for any human settlement to persist farther out, the thin thread of an Earth - based supply chain will prove dangerously fragile.

An ecosystem built around large palm trees shifted to a landscape dominated by grasses, disrupting the natives ability to farm and significantly hobbling their ability to survive on the island.

Fungi Barely Make It Microscopic black fungal cells, found in the cracks of Antarctica's rocks, might also survive on Mars — but just barely.

«Zika can survive on hard, non-porous surfaces for as long as eight hours, possibly longer when the environment contains blood, which is more likely to occur in the real world,» said the study's lead researcher S. Steve Zhou, Ph.D. «The good news is that we found that disinfectants such as isopropyl alcohol and quaternary ammonium / alcohol are generally effective in killing the virus in this type of environment and can do so in a little as 15 seconds.»

Though the model doesn't account for predation, it does offer a dynamic and systematic framework for understanding how foragers survive on limited resources.

• Give New Yorkers a raise: No one can survive on $ 8.75, and let's get real: It's nearly impossible to raise a family on $ 12 or $ 13 per hour in a state as expensive as ours.

Glad you all enjoyed getting pissed and filling your pie - holes, don't worry about us, we survive on out - of - date tinned food found dumped in back alleys and anything we can shoplift.

For one, it's doubtful that the company would be able to survive on its own: According to Health Department figures, Brookdale and Jamaica hospitals have two of the highest ratios of employees to inpatient beds in their class.

Many Ghanaians survive on illegal mining activities, which is also backed by some traditional authorities, politicians and other influential persons in society.

But it paves the way for an all - out lobbying effort from activists and labor unions such as DC - 37 and the New York State Nurses Association, which argue that the current definition of safety net is overly broad and that dozens of hospitals, which serve the state's poorest residents, are unable to survive on the current Medicaid rates.

He described the former party leader's office as «very nervous» because it had sought media attention before finding a member of the public to explain «what it was like to survive on a minimum wage».

Using slightly more conventional language, the London mayor also urged people to «ignore the pessimists and the merchants of doom» who do not think the UK could survive on its own outside the European Union.

Only the super wealthy will be able to run as I don't think many can survive on that amount unless, of course, you're suggesting giving them all pay raises and forcing them to work full time.

In the meantime they survive on handouts as they're not allowed to work.

«We can't survive on five dollars an hour in the City of New York.

The latest Annual States Viability Index (ASVI), published by the Economic Confidential, an economic intelligence magazine, indicated that Borno State can not survive on its internally generated revenue (IGR) without the free flow of revenue from the Federation Account and supports from other states like the recent donations by Northern governors (https://goo.gl/ZugR6M).

The economy is teetering on the brink, our currency is plummeting and banks survive on bail outs.

For them to survive on English votes alone they must return to their socialist roots to offer a viable alternative to the Tories advocacy of aggressive capitalism.

Though the NDC has suffered similar internal wrangling in the past, party insiders say the main opposition party may not be lucky to survive the on - going bickering in the party if «what people are planning against each other is allowed to fester.»

And here is the map of the area they intend to ban people from giving food to homeless people to survive on: Draft Rough Sleeping and Soup Run Byelaw Boundary

In the midst of the sex scandals and losing Fallon and Patel from her Cabinet, Theresa May's rugged determination to secure a Brexit deal in Brussels — and her ability to survive on just two hours sleep before her Brexit breakfast with Jean - Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier - paid off.

Gone are the days when you can survive on just one product line.

They know you are putting politics before the needs of families in your own backyard who are struggling to survive on poverty wages.»

«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.

According to Koku Anyidoho, he can not see how Bawumia can survive on the political terrain after it has become very apparent that Nana Akuffo - Addo's running mate lied about the voters register being over-bloated with foreigners.

«Your bonus each year is equivalent to the amount of money our largest homeless charity Shelter has to survive on.

Silver called it «absurd» to expect a working family to survive on a hourly wage of $ 7.25, especially when neighboring states have a higher minimum wage.

A joint income of # 50k is enough to survive on, that's for sure, but in these economically strained times it's a long way from being comfortably well - off.

Some two year olds can survive on 10 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period whereas others need much more than that.