Fourth, the supplies will be taken away from their fortresses; for they have nothing wherewith to support themselves except it be brought from other islands.
Vagrants are sent to such farms under indeterminate sentences, forced to support themselves by honest labor and made to stay there until they give evidence that upon release they will become useful and self-respecting citizens.
Why not reorganize a system of confinement in such a way as to compel criminals to support themselves?
One of the vital problems of American democracy is the proper care of those individuals who are unable, either to support themselves, or otherwise to protect themselves against the hazards of modern life.
When, because of illness or accident, individuals were temporarily unable to support themselves, informal aid was extended them by neighbors and friends.
There will long continue to be persons whom no amount of care can render capable of earning enough to support themselves.
This is in striking contrast to the situation two hundred years ago, when most divorced women were not only unable to support themselves, but were socially ostracized.
Some of them have fallen ill here, and on leaving the hospital they can neither support themselves here, nor get away from Moscow.
Sempstresses, we know from the rates paid them, and the accounts of travellers, cannot make enough to support themselves; but shopkeepers can.
They are paid fifteen cents a thousand for this work, and are able to support themselves by it.
Any able-bodied adult persons who may, at the instance of the police or the local Poor Law Authority, be considered by a Court of Justice as proper cases, owing to their failure to support themselves.
These were wont to be made formerly, in order to support themselves; but they proved of great harm and prejudice to the natives; and by them God our Lord, and your Majesty were not served.
I might also be prepared to forgive if the children were grown up and able to support themselves.
The real grievance is that the most patient and industrious can not, by any hours of labor, earn a sufficiency to support themselves.
She who should attempt to exist on such a sum would starve to death in less than a month, and yet it is a notorious fact that many are expected to support themselves upon it.
Women of the industrial class in the United States need new laws, but little advice how to support themselves.
There is another problem that women, forced imminently or prospectively to support themselves, must face before long, and that is the heavy immigration from Europe.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "support themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
