subsistence level

"I thought you said your people were used to living on a subsistence level."

"The rest of the population are at or below subsistence levels."

Problems such as the subsistence level of the victims here.

His village was poor, with many families living at a subsistence level.

In Medieval times, what we now call economy was not far from the subsistence level.

Most of the agriculture in the district is on the subsistence level.

"Two more like it would just about bring my day's intake up to the subsistence level."

What he saw were people who had lost much of their traditional skill and often living close to subsistence level.

"We are talking about enough money to build houses, and to be above the subsistence level," he said.

For too many, the lack of financial security, savings and a clear future mean that they have to live at subsistence level.

The area has subsistence level of farming which is not enough to feed a family.

Instead, all work is done by peasants or tenants who live at subsistence level.

People living on the bare subsistence level did not have food enough to use it socially.

The wages were so low, however, that workers still lived at barely subsistence level.

Due to lack of rain, agriculture is at a subsistence level.

For example, cultivation is prohibited at all but subsistence levels.

Europe did not become what it is today just by eliminating poverty and living at subsistence level.

The forests he had seen couldn't support a man at anything above subsistence level, if that.

The areas under its control operate by barter at subsistence level.

In first case the economy is at minimum subsistence level of per capita income.

So you are taxing peasants at well below subsistence level.

After women, most of those living at the subsistence level are refugees and the self-employed.

Some day, with all that the Cities could do, the available calories per person would simply fall below basic subsistence level.

Agriculture was still dominant, with most peasants at the subsistence level.

The tribes here live very close to subsistence level.