1.   But it is much worse news for some individual farmers, since so many were only just scratching a living anyway.

2.   Yet they are fighting for a few square miles of barren mountain where a few thousand souls barely scratch a living.

3.   Poor people displaced by Asian economic problems could cause an environmental crisis as they attempt to scratch subsistence livings in local forests, a World Bank official said Monday.

4.   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.

5.   Street children had suddenly appeared in capitals, around railway stations, abandoned figures, escaping their schooling to scratch a living.