Premature babies can survive from as early as 22 weeks' gestation, but they are on the border of viability.
Ancient people had to survive from hunting animals which were the main food for them and also had to dodge the attacks which were the threats to their lives from fierce animals.
Pennisetum setaceum and P. villosum didn't survive from the cold winter and showed annual characteristics;
"a number of musical notations, both tablatures and pitch-notations (relative and absolute) survive from the Song period; for instance, tablatures for drum, zither, etc. are to be found in the popular encyclopedia Shilin guangji."
To survive from one growing season to the next, often with a period of reduced or arrested growth between seasons. Used of plants or plant parts.
Life isn't about how to survive from storms, but how to dance in the rain.
Because in many cases, the plantations own the most fertile land (which was most often acquired unscrupulously) and the local people won't survive from subsistence farming alone.
