"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For how else can people survive on mere subsistence alone?
- A sympathetic viewer might interpret them as a comment on the trans-Atlantic economy of the colonial era, with its harvest of wealth for the few and mere subsistence for the many.
- HOW do three men, trapped in humdrum jobs that sentence them to lifetime membership in the fraternity of unnoticed people, turn mere subsistence into meaningful existence?
- In between, for people who do not have a hedge-fund account and yet want to retire on more than mere subsistence, there are pensions and 401(k)'s.
- Was the promoter a thief - one who stole inventive ideas in return for mere subsistence?
- After all, if a country can support begging, then it must be generating income beyond mere subsistence.
- But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place, having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan, bulk buy, meet the emergencies which crop up constantly.
- The money, Justice Wilk said, "provides more than mere subsistence to destitute people unable to prepare food at home.
- There he "worked on the roads for a mere subsistence for several months, then started as a fruit vender.
- It must certainly not be forgotten that 80% of Mediterranean fishing is small-scale and tied closely to the areas concerned, whose socio-economic equilibrium verges, more often than not, on mere subsistence.
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