(n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.
(n.) Liveliness; appearance of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "We can't continue to ignore the stark warnings of the catastrophic consequences of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet.
(2) Most patients experience improvement in symptoms and many can return to a productive livelihood.
(3) Labour are finally crafting a clearer line on Brexit: this morning, the shadow chancellor warned that “losing access to the single market would be devastating for jobs, livelihoods and our public services”, that Britain didn’t vote for “economic misery and the loss of jobs”, and that the government was “abandoning Britain’s clear national interests by putting narrow party political concerns first.” These are good lines – and clarify that Labour’s priority is single-market access – but they will only cut through if repeated in similar language until people can hardly bear to hear them anymore.
(4) Ward said: "The alarming truth is that Defra's continuing preference for basing policies upon Paterson's ideological views on climate change, rather than on expert scientific advice, is placing the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the UK at risk."
(5) Maggie Kelly, from the residents campaign group Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston (CONCH), said: "The proposed power station would have a devastating impact on our community, damaging our health, our livelihoods and destroying the local environment.
(6) This financial strain can have a severe impact on the livelihoods of social housing tenants, as shown in a new blog set up by a PhD student at the London School of Economics (LSE).
(7) They soon discovered they had more than livelihoods in common.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishermen approach the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction site, during a protest against its construction and its impact on their livelihoods, along the Xingu river near Altamira in Para state.
(9) The fishermen didn't know anything about oil exploration and the devastating effect it could have on the lake that provides their family's livelihood.
(10) The security of knowing that if you fall sick, or just want to take a holiday, you don’t have to jeopardise your livelihood.
(11) The report identifies a series of imminent risks, including illness, the breakdown of infrastructure and public services, food and water insecurity, and loss of rural livelihoods.
(12) Osborne, who has been closely involved in orchestrating what opponents have dubbed “project fear” – the effort to convince voters of the risks of leaving – said: “As chancellor, I feel very strongly that my first responsibility is for people’s jobs, livelihoods and living standards.
(13) TTC’s business conduct on the continent requires international scrutiny and the international community has a responsibility to hold them to account for their devastating impact on public health, environmental sustainability, and economic livelihood.
(14) The magnitude and distribution of these health consequences among the population are discussed in economic terms, that is, in an "accounting framework" comprising such disparate elements as lost lives, lost livelihoods, pain, fear, discomfort, medical costs, excise taxes, and the costs of regulating smoking behaviors.
(15) Less than 1% of Area C had been planned for Palestinian construction – even basic residential and livelihood structures, such as a tent or a fence, required a permit.
(16) Lewis told the Panorama show: “The damage [the alleged entrapment has] caused, the damage to people’s livelihoods, the amount of people sent to prison – it’s much, much bigger, far more serious, than phone hacking ever was.” On Thursday morning, Lewis told the Guardian how people could be swayed by the kind of entrapment alleged to have been carried out by Mahmood: “All human beings have a price.
(17) About 4,000 remain in the Surgut district where Kechimov lives, and most of them still pursue their traditional livelihood of reindeer herding, hunting and fishing, explained the activist Agrafena Sopochina.
(18) Opponents of the pipeline say draining the desert of groundwater would destroy the livelihoods of the cattle ranchers, Native American tribes, and Mormon enterprises that call this expanse home, and reduce a vast swath of the state to a dust bowl.
(19) The letter followed a pledge in February by hundreds of artists and musicians to instigate a cultural boycott of Israel due to the country’s “unrelenting attack on [Palestinian] land, their livelihood, their right to political existence”.
(20) Alastair Butler, a free-range pig farmer, said most pig farmers were against the reintroduction of swill feeding because of the "real risk" to their animals and livelihood.
Living
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Live
(n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
(n.) Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
(n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(4) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(5) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(6) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(8) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(9) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(10) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(11) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(12) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(14) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(16) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(17) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(18) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(19) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(20) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.