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 Translation for 'to subsist' from English to French
VERB   to subsist | subsisted | subsisted
subsisting | subsists
SYNO to exist | to live | to subsist | ...
fin.
subsister [personne] [subvenir à ses besoins]
to subsist
carburer à qc. [fam.] [à l'amour, au café]to subsist on sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • Apart from general substantive criteria, for Copyright to subsist in a work, the statutory requirements with respect to qualification for copyright protection in s 177 must be met (Copyright Ordinance s 2(3)).
  • Evidence given for this included the fact that bivalves needed less food to subsist because of their energetically efficient ligament-muscle system for opening and closing valves.
  • In 2005, the Indiana State Department of Agriculture began a program to make Reynolds an energy self-sufficient community, able to subsist almost entirely on locally produced alternative energy.
  • For the notion of substance is intrinsically tied up to metaphysical necessity, so that its substance can be characterised as being "per se" or needing not the input of any other to subsist.
  • He appears to subsist on a diet of hot dogs, hamburgers and strong black coffee which he takes without sugar and is so unchanging that he simply orders 'The usual' from the staff of his regular eateries (in "The Dead Pool" he samples his girlfriend's unknown dessert but does not have one himself).

  • The glyoxylate cycle is utilized by many bacteria, plants and fungi and allows these organisms to subsist on acetate or acetyl CoA yielding compounds.
  • This need for others to subsist allowed the Chimúes first and then the Incas to impose their dominion over them.
  • The Communist guerrilla force, with a strength of about 500, continued to subsist on either side of the Thailand border.
  • The victims of Earth's misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states.
  • They were for some time compelled to subsist by performing exhibitions of feats of strength and agility as a strongman at fairs and on the streets of London.

  • Since leafy food had become scarce, these animals were forced to subsist on the newly evolved grasses that were by now taking over the plains, and their teeth adapted accordingly.
  • After the repeal of these offences by the Criminal Law Act 1967, attempted murder was allowed to subsist at common law until the enactment of the 1981 Act.
  • Its geographic position along the Aveiro River had always helped it to subsist and grow, supported by salt market, fishing and maritime commercial development.
  • It however continued to subsist throughout the Middle Ages, until the 13th century, when, having been converted into a stronghold by the Saracens, it was taken by the emperor Frederick II and utterly destroyed, the inhabitants being removed to Nocera near Naples.
  • They were disqualified for such reasons as not having delivered any grain to the Wheat Board in the previous two years or not having produced enough wheat or malt barley to have generated significant enough income from which to subsist.

  • Unable to subsist his army without these supplies, Grant abandoned his overland advance.
  • "The Art Record" noted in 1901 that Oliver Bath was “a gentleman who is believed to subsist on an exclusive diet of the famous Bath Oliver Biscuit”.
  • This disorganization in turn caused members of urban communities to subsist almost solely on secondary affiliations with others, and rarely allowed them to rely on other members of the community for assistance with their needs.
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