scratch a living造句

• Eighty-five percent of Afghanistan's estimated 25 million people scratch a living from the land.
• Guerrero is among Mexico's poorest states and farmers barely scratch a living from nutrient-poor land.
• Yet they are fighting for a few square miles of barren mountain where a few thousand souls barely scratch a living.
• Giving up dreams of sailing like his father, Rosa scratches a living from a dry and rocky farm high on a cliff overlooking the sea.
• First they scratch a living from the land and then learn to round up wild cattle and drive them to Punta Rassa to ship to Cuba.
• In the 19th century, if you couldn't scratch a living in one country, you could go and try to make a living somewhere else.
• Farmers were giving up the struggle to scratch a living out of stony fields on steep hillsides, and then searching for an often unscrupulous middleman to buy up the lavender and sell it on.
• Today, one of the country's two prize oil patches is a haunted desert whose inhabitants, from camel herders to security guards, scratch a living amid ransacked and abandoned oil facilities.
• A big test of Moscow's political will to contain inflation looms this summer, when the 30 million Russians who still scratch a living from the soil demand a budget-busting round of subsidies to finance the harvest.
• He found that acting as sidecar passenger to top riders enabled him to both enjoy top-level European competition himself while being paid and to scratch a living writing about it-he was passenger to Eric Oliver ( with whom he became 1949 ) and Marcel Masuy.
• One worker in a private mine, Wang Jing, said that more than half the men in his nearby village are willing to risk the drudgery and danger because they could not scratch a living out of the semi-arid hills of Shanxi province, just below the Mongolian desert.
• Aside from matters of dress, comportment and diction, Leavitt possessed another trait which apparently sealed his fate : he was enamored with English colonial rule & ndash; a delicate subject anywhere in the American colonies, but especially among the hardscrabble rural settlers attempting to scratch a living from the Berkshire hill country.