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livelihood
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    That family lost their livelihood today, and someone needs to be held responsible.†  (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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    You're talking 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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    White men were everywhere aggrieved, and they would sometimes rise up against us black devils, the miserable black scourge who would destroy their livelihood by labouring at cheaper rates.†  (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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    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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    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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    While fetching the cloth, she noticed her sewing machine; she went back in for it and dragged it out, Obviously, she could not carry it with her, so she unthinkingly plunged her symbol of livelihood into the receptacle which for weeks had been her symbol Of safety — the cement tank of water in front of her house, of the type every household had been ordered to construct against a possible fire raid.†  (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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    But then, what reams of other manuscripts—filled, not with the dulness of official formalities, but with the thought of inventive brains and the rich effusion of deep hearts—had gone equally to oblivion; and that, moreover, without serving a purpose in their day, as these heaped-up papers had, and—saddest of all—without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom-House had gained by these worthless scratchings of the pen.†  (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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