9 sentences with 'subsistence'
Example sentences and phrases with the word subsistence and other words derived from it.
• « Agriculture reverted to subsistence levels, and trade with neighbouring areas all but disappeared. »
• « In turn, this reversion to local subsistence economies cut them off from important sources of nutrition and materials for daily life, as well as from foreign ideas and cultural influences. »
• « The early Middle Ages, from around 500 to 800 CE, functioned largely on the basis of subsistence agriculture and a barter economy. »
• « This descent into subsistence had occurred for a number of reasons over the course of the previous centuries. The fall of Rome's western empire had strangled the manufacture and trade of high-quality consumer goods (a trade that had been extensive in Rome). »
• « Meanwhile, the revolutionary government created a subsistence committee to develop and elaborate a system of price control, requisitioning and monetary regulation, backed by police power. »
• « In short, agriculture definitively left the subsistence model behind and became a commercial enterprise in Britain in 1800. »
• « In other areas, as in most British-controlled territories, it was in the form of subsistence wages paid to the workers. »
• « It is known: experience is useful for subsistence and, combined with imagination, life can be less complicated. »