| Meanwhile in Scotland, the old-beadle died and his son succeeded him, eking out a modest living by selling tea and tobacco. |
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| Amanda is the teenage runaway, eking out a desperate existence on the margins of society, amidst the detritus of the contemporary Wasteland. |
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| Yet they lead a tough existence, working very hard, barely eking out a living under frequently demeaning circumstances. |
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| No doubt, the number of survivors eking out a precarious existence must far exceed the death toll. |
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| She has a group of friends, all vagrant children eking out a living doing odd jobs, from boot polishing to selling flowers to rag-picking. |
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| The luckless spy spent most of the war in prisons and internment camps eking out a living as a stool pigeon. |
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| Ordinary people, after all, just want to get along with their lives, with the routine and mundane task of eking out a living out of scarce resources. |
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| The Baka and Bantu people have lived here for generations, eking out a living by growing crops, working in the logging concessions, and hunting and gathering in the forest. |
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| She is one of the many young people eking out a living on Ukraine's streets who get no care and support. |
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| At the end of the close match, Canada found itself in the lead, eking out a 1-0 win. |
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| The inhabitants of this country battered over decades are leaving their homeland in droves, eking out an existence in refugee camps in Pakistan. |
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| Most of the inhabitants of the affected areas are poor peasants eking out a living from llama and alpaca herds and subsistence farming. |
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| They are living in substandard conditions, eking along, but they do not realize they are eligible. |
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| Most East Timorese are still eking out a living as subsistence farmers, disappointed with the meagre fruits of independence. |
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| Bats that had once lived deep in the forest were now eking out a living on mango trees and near pig farms. |
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| His chances of living, or rather eking a living off the earth dwindle with each passing day. |
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| Are there descendants of those early life forms eking out an existence below the surface? |
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| In 1989, she was trying to make her mark as a singer in London but had succeeded only in eking out a living, playing tiny gigs and taking the odd bit-part acting job. |
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| Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power. |
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| Can they assume that social equality is like a train that runs on a track on its own without any connection to the economic circumstances, to the very essence of eking out a living and surviving in society today? |
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| That will help fishers who are basically eking out a very modest living and who often are unable, for example, to employ a helper on a boat for an extended period of time. |
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| Sister Dorothy, an American nun, had befriended the forest, its wildlife and, especially, poor migrants eking out a living in the Brazilian Amazon. |
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| The miners had survived by eking out two days' rations. |
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| When he's not eking out a modest living as a translator, he's perambulating Copenhagen's streets, musing on James Joyce and Dante, fretting about his ex-wife and kids, and agonising over questions big and small: What is love? |
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| In Thailand, Shan refugees exist in the shadows, eking a living as illegal labourers in the orchards and tea estates, constantly vulnerable to arrest and deportation. |
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| In a continent like Africa where the vast majority of the populace is based in the rural area eking out a subsistence existence, the fact is that globalization has not improved things. |
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| There remain however large numbers of peasant farmers, especially in the more populous Poland and Romania, eking out a subsistence living: for some this has been the only way to survive the economic traumas of transition. |
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| Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands remain the favourites, but despite having played a game more than their two rivals, Samoa will simply be delighted to have stayed in the hunt after eking out a tense 2-1 win over Tonga. |
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| The Malian Boncana Maïga, eking out a living in Bamako, moved to Abidjan in 1974, while the Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango was called on to lead the new orchestra of the Ivorian TV and radio broadcast organization. |
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| These forms all require significant amounts of time to complete, in circumstances where victims are eking a living and intermediaries are not supported for their work. |
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| Because there is violence as long as there are homeless children eking out a living on the streets, inhaling glue to appease their hunger until they fall victim to some 'death squad' or end up in the most extreme degradation. |
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