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livelihood
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  • The church counts very heavily on Christmas—for its missions, for its livelihood in this city.†  (source)
  • Maybe that's why I was so insistent on buying it after being stripped of my livelihood.†  (source)
  • Still, his loyalty to the people who give him his check, his livelihood, his life, is boundless.†  (source)
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  • You're talking livelihood.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And Earth looked and she saw her people afraid, without homes or food, their houses destroyed and all their livelihoods gone.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I was trying to drop back about two centuries to become an eighteenth-century man who relied on hunting and fishing for his livelihood.†  (source)
  • The Depression cut deeply into rail freight, and layoffs crippled the livelihoods of James and many of his fellow "Rails."†  (source)
  • An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.†  (source)
  • 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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