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Indigence need not be the sole factor for providing coverage.
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And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin.
Thom Hartmann: The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s 2009
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Nor was it his Indigence, that forc't him to make the World, thereby to make new Acquisitions, but his Goodnesse, that prest him to manifest, and to impart his Glory; and the goods, which he so over-flowingly abounds with.
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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Indigence and famine stared us in the face; and it was with the utmost difficulty that we resisted their attacks, by selling or pledging our wearing apparel, until we were left almost quite naked, when we found ourselves discharged by an act passed for the relief of insolvent debtors.
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Louisbourg this Admiration of Bravery, at Louisbourg and which all the Perplexity, Disgrace, and Indigence, which he has been brought to endure, since his Return from that Expedition, has never been able to extinguish.
John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961
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Indigence and ignorance subject men to oppression in all countries, and under all circumstances, it matters not whether you call them slaves or freemen.
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward
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Indigence, a situation where the necessaries of life are scantily supplied
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And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin.
unknown title 2011
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JW: Finally, just as courses in a meal are sometimes paired with specific wines, can you name a specific book or article on a different period or a different subject that would go well with Guilty of Indigence -- or if want to belabor the culinary metaphor, maybe a reading per section like a wine per course?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2012
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For China specialists, the most important new publication on the impoverished is one that neither goes as far back as the days of Dickens nor deals with out own time, but is rather Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2012
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