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If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar.

Many employers are unwilling to employ North Koreans, whom they consider backward, leaving many to subsist on government largesse.

And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount?

They are becoming habituated to human presence as they increasingly subsist on a diet of wasted human food and cats.

How do they manage to subsist on such a low wage?

You do sometimes wonder whether it mightn't be easier to move to a desert island and subsist on berries and fresh air.

Families who subsist on food stamps and live at or below the poverty level can't afford supplements, and there are many such families.

As bowhead whalingdisappeared in Canada and Greenland, the Inuit had to subsist on a much poorer diet.

Some people are understandably queasy about importing labour while so many Britons subsist on benefits.

How can you subsist on such a small income?

We couldn't manage to subsist on such a low wage.

To make matters worse, they subsist on a diet heavy in foods fried in lard.

The celebrations and the food of old will come and go , but nobody will be asked to subsist on seal or whale.

The family must subsist on a single income while still paying the taxes that finance public schools.

Squirrels subsist on nuts during the winter.

Many already subsist on the mere threshold of survival.

The Masai subsist on cattle blood and meat and milk and little else.

Native Americans subsist on beans and maize.

They had to subsist on charity.

Instead they can subsist on leftovers and whatever they forage.

It may be basic fare, but for urbanites who subsist on greasy food every day, a healthy change is a big holiday pursuit indeed.