The women live in spartan conditions and send their money back home to their husbands and grown children.

In spartan conditions, she will teach local nurses eye care and help amputees in a country ravaged by decades of war.

The spartan conditions had suited his tastes, and the company would have been welcome, since there was much to figure out.

Workers grew accustomed to working under spartan conditions at a carrier that billed itself as a no-frills, low-fare airline.

After the more spartan conditions of the past two months, it seemed the height of luxury.

The budget accommodations cost US$20 or more, even for spartan conditions.

Doctors who are willing to give up their practice for four months to work in spartan conditions are hard to find.

Mannerheim's bedroom, which is kept at its original state, displays the spartan conditions in which he preferred to sleep.

It could not be easy to produce meals for seven or eight lodgers under such spartan conditions.

His emphasis on discipline and on spartan conditions at the expense of the girls' health make it the antithesis of the ideal home.