11. With no means of subsistence , famine set in. 12. Being unsuccessful, he was compelled again to have recourse to painting, as a means of subsistence . 13. They go to work not to express their human nature but to find theirs means of subsistence . 14. His literary and journalistic labors occupied much of his time, and were his chief means of subsistence . 15. Instead, researchers suspect that manioc, or cassava root may have been the society s primary means of subsistence . 16. The key to this is that workers exchange their labor power in return for a means of subsistence . 17. The two conditions are natural wealth in the means of subsistence and natural wealth in the instruments of labor. 18. Poverty is the single greatest push factor making women vulnerable to accepting prostitution as a means of subsistence . 19. The reform had important social consequences, giving the peasants a civic motivation and assuring them a means of subsistence ; 20. In spice producing islands like Banda, rice was regularly imported from Java, to supply the deficiency in means of subsistence .