| They probably subsisted on insects and other small terrestrial invertebrates and perhaps even on small vertebrates. |
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| I joined a hunger strike at Northwestern and subsisted on liquids for almost a week, but went off it when I almost fainted. |
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| The cause of action is deemed to have subsisted before the death, allowing the claimant to sue the estate. |
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| The beast subsisted on a diet of swamp things, but was known to occasionally snack on wayward lumberjacks and other unfortunates. |
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| Although they had provisions to last a few days, they subsisted on bare minimum of rice gruel for energy to stay afloat. |
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| Your columnist is clearly no match for Weissman, a New Jersey freegan who claims to have subsisted on a largely dumpster-based diet for a decade. |
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| Many who subsisted on bitter wild oranges succumbed to cholera, malaria and dysentery. |
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| By 2002, the single person on welfare in Ontario subsisted on only 35 percent of the poverty line. |
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| These habitats have subsisted because this part of the lake has so far escaped much of the pressure from urban development. |
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| In brief, these show that the court may award damages on sales made after the expiry of a patent provided they are caused by infringements arising whilst the patent subsisted. |
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| Residents of the game reserve, who subsisted mainly on hunting and gathering, were at the time allowed to settle in the game reserve. |
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| Though she subsisted on an allowance of only £5 a week she was often squired by equally glamorous beaux such as Mark Boxer. |
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| He subsisted by pawning his few belongings and, according to legend, by eating sparrows trapped outside his attic window. |
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| The household of 11 adults plus children subsisted on two goats a week, honey from a hive in the garden and Quaker Oats from a local shop. |
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| When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits. |
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| For the Board, no doubt subsisted on the ability to pay of those who are liable for the tariff. |
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| The pre-election delegation stressed that a number of concerns have subsisted throughout this election campaign. |
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| However, it stressed a number of concerns which have subsisted throughout the campaign. |
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| The people subsisted on cassava, which they grew in small garden plots and on fish, which they caught in the tributary. |
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| Ramachari and his family subsisted on the income that he was able to generate from making farming implements for the farmers who lived around him in the village. |
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| He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. |
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| Li labored all day in the icy cold, subsisted on watery soup, and spent the evenings in exhausting self-criticism sessions or on even more exhausting forced marches. |
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| Moreover, many of the Syrian Armenians in Armenia have subsisted on their savings so far. |
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| In the Middle Ages compassion and support for persons with mental illness subsisted along with the belief in demoniac possession as a primary aetiology of mental illness. |
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| It was unsalaried, and he and his family subsisted on their savings. |
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| These prisoners faced frequent beatings by superiors, subsisted on an inadequate diet, and lacked the clothing or boots needed for working in the cold, rugged terrain. |
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| While a burgeoning urban middle class flouted its lifestyle and levels of consumption, masses of illiterate, unemployed and undernourished populations subsisted at the margins of bourgeois society. |
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| As recently as the early 1990s many Chinese mostly subsisted on a diet of vegetables bought at street markets. For Mr Lei, as for many of his countrymen, the years of deprivation are well within living memory. |
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| This is so, however, only in the case of all works and other subject matter in which copyright subsisted on 1 January '00' when the amending legislation came into effect. |
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| Because we subsisted on animals, sometimes it was difficult. |
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| This obligation subsisted on an ongoing basis, that is to say whenever a change occurred within the business that could influence the pay equity results. |
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| Until the 1960s, its coastal villages largely subsisted on fishing while depending on the mangroves for medicinal plants and materials such as thatch for housing and fishing gear. |
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| Before the eruption, they were a sparsely distributed people who subsisted by foraging and hunting, using both spears and bows and arrows. |
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| Giambi has subsisted mostly on protein shakes during his illness. |
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| The Italian authorities are therefore requested to regularly provide the Commission with the information allowing such monitoring, for a period of time proportionate to that during which the illegal practise subsisted. |
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| Sworn to poverty, they subsisted on small royal grants and alms. |
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| The report did not explain why the Office had been initially set up outside the ambit of the regular budget and why it was now faced with a funding problem when it had subsisted on voluntary funding for eight years. |
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| The inhabitants of these islands also subsisted mainly on fishing and related industries and still do in the case of Urk and Wieringen. |
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| During the Paleolithic period, humans grouped together in small societies such as bands, and subsisted by gathering plants and fishing, hunting or scavenging wild animals. |
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| The chief god of the Norse, a one-eyed doomster named Odin, ate nothing and subsisted entirely on the mead that flowed from the teats of his goat, Heidrun. |
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| Many migrants were extremely poor and had subsisted on others' property. |
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| They subsisted by hunting and fishing, done generally by men, as well as by the women's gathering and processing of indigenous cassava root and fruit. |
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| Richard Cromwell subsisted in straitened circumstances after his resignation, he went abroad and lived in relative obscurity for the remainder of his life. |
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