subsistence level

If she got caught with a shank, they would up her custody level.

These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.

However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.

“The level of outside support… has not been sufficient enough for them to distance themselves from al Nusra,” Cafarella said.

Occasionally, a level will take 20 or more strokes to complete.

It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.