(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.
Wander
Definition:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
(11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
(17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
(20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.