| The little silvery streams criss-crossing the river bed are enough for them to eke out a living. |
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| So, without identity documents, she had to shield her children from the authorities and eke out a living with odd cash in hand jobs. |
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| The struggle to eke out a living in the mountains seemed to be so great for them that they were willing to toss it in at the first chance. |
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| Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments. |
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| He heads for a dirty hut in the country where he can doss down and eke out a living. |
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| Water is the key to life on earth and far too many people are forced to eke out a living without safe supplies of this most basic resource. |
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| They decide to sell tissue and cells of their body for payment in order to eke out a living. |
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| From there, he tried to peddle copies of his autobiography to eke out a living. |
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| They endured the profanities, the physical confrontations, just to eke out a living. |
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| He was coughing up blood, gasping for breath, even as he continued to eke out a living for his family. |
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| Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers. |
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| It also provided them with various common rights and established customs and practices which they used to structure their day, to appropriate goods and to eke out a living. |
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| Poor families from Kakanj in Bosnia eke out a living by collecting coal from an abandoned mine there. |
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| As a result, most Roma are left to eke out a living as best they can, mostly through recycling scrap metal or as casual labourers. |
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| Elephants will be compressed to eke out a living in small islands of protected areas. |
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| Ms. Richards is one of the many children of celebrities who have turned to turntables to eke out a living. |
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| Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? |
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| They were doing their best to eke out a living by playing and recording their music. |
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| Laid-off miners and peasants were forced to eke out a living in small family businesses or other forms of self-employment. |
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| We all have relatives who have tried to eke out a living in the farming industry over the years. |
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| I can tell the House that in Guysborough today, in Canso, Nova Scotia, people are still trying to eke out a living in the fishery. |
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| The events of the last three years have made it nearly impossible for many families to eke out a living. |
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| Hundreds eke out a living, toiling hard throughout the night. |
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| Nets brim over with dead fish, blemishing the view of a vast reservoir in China's eastern province of Jiangsu where hundreds of peasants already struggle to eke out a living. |
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| Walter Chuchla, who came to Canada from Poland in 1926 at the age of 22, was one of many immigrants who tried to eke out a living in the midst of the Depression. |
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| Some people, usually men, leave their families and head for the big city in the hope of a job, while others try to eke out a living on the tribal land that's home to some 26 000 people. |
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| Trying to eke out a living on swampy, rocky soil, with no livestock, no guns or ammunition for hunting, no lumber for housing, and no capital or credit, took its toll on the settlers. |
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| All Mohamed Bouazizi wanted was a job, some means to eke out a living. |
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| Fewer still reached enough papers for the creators to eke out a living. |
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| As a result, most smallholder farmers in ACP states are forced to eke out a living on impoverished soils with little or no access to fertilisers and appropriate information on sustainable soil fertility management. |
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| There is a high level of illiteracy among women, and the majority eke out a living in small-scale trading in the informal sector and in subsistence agriculture. |
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| Many have been forced to eke out a living peddling from street stalls. |
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| A FATHER and son paddle through a river of rubbish in the Phillipines trying to collect enough plastic bottles to eke out a living. |
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| On top of the millions who are driven from their homes by war, famine and other catastrophes, millions more are forced to move in order to survive because they are simply unable to eke out a living in their place of origin. |
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| We have managed to eke out a living, whether that has been a subsistence agricultural living or one dependent upon forestry or fisheries, for literally hundreds of years. |
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| They often eke out a living through government employment programs, employment insurance, social assistance and occasional small contracts in order to pursue their profession. |
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| While, traditionally, women always had their children with them, modern women are constantly torn between the need to eke out a living and manage the home. |
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