subsistance

• That he sent back the French auxiliaries in order to employ the money assigned for their subsistance in paying the new soldiers. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• And it seems, once we are liberated from subsistance living, we grow docile. —  Blue Hampshire
• And I suspect that the people who live in shacks with dirt floors, cooking their meals and getting heat from animal dung, and worrying about eeking out a subsistance from fallow fields, not to mention the disease, would tell the people in the 1st World, who have the luxery of whining about AGW, to go to hell. —  Pirate's Cove
• A person earning $30,000 - $60,000 a year consumes much more goods and services than someone who is homeless or surviving on subsistance entitlements. —  ETFs News and Commentary from Seeking Alpha
• As Dylan gets older, he probes deeper and deeper into the foundations of popular music, searching for a visceral sound that speaks to the grittier truths of every day subsistance. —  Expecting Rain

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