livelihood

"If you don't listen to me, how can you come and kill my business, destroy my family's, my livelihood?" he asked.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Deforestation has a "massive impact on the cultural identity and on the livelihood of local and indigenous communities", he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

But what if you happen to be partnered with the person making the sound, stuck in a room with him for hours on end like your very livelihood depends on it?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Obviously this is my livelihood so without it I'm not able to eat and put clothes on my back, so it's very important to me," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

What she remembered better was her scream, the scream of someone she didn’t know and didn’t trust, a screech so bloodcurdling that even the emergency room, whose very livelihood was disaster, stopped dead still.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Roy has promised to keep more Angelenos housed and protect their livelihoods through “affirmative litigation” — suits brought against slumlords and exploitative corporations under the state’s Unfair Competition Law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The drivers, many of whom are immigrants, say the ban eliminates their livelihoods with no viable alternative offered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I have always spoken about the importance of taking care of the workers in this industry, because they have earned their livelihoods from this work,” Mamdani said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

She said farmers often had generational businesses and relied on markets and trade with others, adding that raising abuse could affect livelihoods.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

And trying to keep people from their jobs, from the livelihoods that put food on their plate and a roof over their heads, was as dangerous as the mountain next door.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone