(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.
Longevity
Definition:
(n.) Long duration of life; length of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(2) A theory of selection at implantation is developed and generalized which leads to a new approach of longevity.
(3) Defenders of Boeheim would point out that this is partly a result of his longevity.
(4) There are no data to suggest that exercise training alters the incidence of infection or rejection or improves longevity or return to pre-illness lifestyle.
(5) Longevity analysis demonstrated elongation of life expectancy for kindred members, and there was an apparent rarity of premature cardiac events.
(6) The salmon allele in G. m. morsitans is pleiotropic and profoundly affects many aspects of fly biology including longevity, reproductive capacity, vision, vectorial capacity and duration of flight, but not circadian rhythms.
(7) Susannah Mushatt Jones, the American who is the only other member of the 116 club, also attributes her longevity to many decades of living on her own, having been married for only five years between 1928-33.
(8) According to the author's hypothesis, the human population consists of the two subpopulations which differ by the constitutional type of hormonal regulation and reproduction potential; the constitutional type of hormonal regulation exerts a considerable effect of the aging rate, morbidity, and longevity.
(9) A mathematical formula for normalization combined with the Weibull analysis also is proposed that could provide CL50 values for the clinical longevity of adhesive restorations.
(10) Tumor derived microvessel endothelium had decreased longevity in culture when compared to normal microvessel endothelium.
(11) Long-term in vitro human hematopoietic (Dexter) cultures are limited both in their longevity (8-12 weeks) and in their cell production over time.
(12) He said his longevity in the face of multiple drug abuse over decades was just luck, and advised others not to follow his lead.
(13) For new housing provision from now on, we need to aim at longevity as a key element of genuine sustainability.
(14) The reduction in the rate of aseptic loosening of the socket in our series, compared with the higher rates reported in similar long-term studies in which other acetabular components were used, supports the conclusion that there is enhanced longevity of acetabular fixation when a metal-backed acetabular component is used in cemented total hip arthroplasty.
(15) Onset of microscopically observed renal, vascular, myocardial and skeletal muscle lesions, as well as mammary fibroadenoma in females, was delayed and resulted in greater longevity.
(16) The effects of the growth factors were transient and the longevity of hematopoiesis in the cultures was not altered, suggesting that treatment with IL-3, GM-CSF, or G-CSF had not compromised the ability of primitive cells to give rise to mature cells.
(17) Good objective health, high scores on certain intelligence and memory tests seem to be good predictors for longevity, good subjective health more or less.
(18) Moderate rather than high dietary consumption of polyunsaturated fat seems to be favorable to metabolic processes contributing to longevity.
(19) The energy restriction regimen employed inhibited the development of cancer and greatly extended longevity in both these mouse strains.
(20) In an aging society, however, active life expectancy and maintenance of independence may be as important as effects of regular exercise on longevity.