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She could no longer earn her own livelihood.livelihood = the money needed to provide the necessities of life
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I threw up two more times before Karim agreed to stop, mostly so I wouldn't stink up his vehicle, the instrument of his livelihood.† (source)
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We played a game called "river kids," imagining we lived alone on the river, scavenging for our livelihood and hiding from the adults who wanted to put us in an orphanage.† (source)
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While all this suffering was going on, while people were losing their loved ones, their homes and their livelihoods, our president, Asif Zardari, was on holiday at a chateau in France.† (source)
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They must scrabble for their livelihoods as Glaucos once did: hauling nets, carrying odd cargo, hunting down whatever dinner they could find.† (source)
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The church counts very heavily on Christmas—for its missions, for its livelihood in this city.† (source)
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You're talking livelihood.† (source)
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And Earth looked and she saw her people afraid, without homes or food, their houses destroyed and all their livelihoods gone.† (source)
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It's a world where a man's reputation is at the center of his livelihood and self-worth.† (source)
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The Depression cut deeply into rail freight, and layoffs crippled the livelihoods of James and many of his fellow "Rails."† (source)
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Maybe that's why I was so insistent on buying it after being stripped of my livelihood.† (source)
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They could be seen behind their counters, wearing black skullcaps, full beards, and long ear-locks, eking out their meager livelihoods and dreaming of Shabbat sand festivals when they could close their stores and turn their attention to their prayers, their rabbi, their God.† (source)
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And for his livelihood, he ran a small business which sold auto insurance in inner-city Baltimore.† (source)
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Managers promised and even engaged their theatres to us after the most explicit warnings that the play was unlicensed, and at the last moment suddenly realized that Mr Redford had their livelihoods in the hollow of his hand, and backed out.† (source)
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An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.† (source)
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By selling your lace so cheaply, you hurt people's livelihoods and undermine our economy.† (source)
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