During this phase, society is preoccupied with bare survival and subsistence.

Meanwhile, the best we fallen ones can hope for is bare survival.

Her bare survival was in doubt.

Yet there is room for more beyond bare survival.

Stay on the lowest rung of their ladder, earn no more than your barest survival, do not make an extra penny to support the looters' state.

Maybe a bit of money left over for more than bare survival.

It was then, when bare survival was still chancy, that they began the stone faring.

But I had yet to learn if it were a bare survival, or a lively and generous tradition.

In Zagreb, I learned that the struggle for bare survival leaves little room for renewal or for creation.

As always in the Balkans, bare survival provides precious little room for moral choices.