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  • The proficiency rating program and certification for training programs collect fees for service, and therefore, are meant to be selfsupporting, but Congress authorized $1,500,000 to be appropriated to establish these programs.

    Toxic Substances Control Act, United States 2007

  • Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.

    Ulysses 2003

  • It gives some breathing room to people who, day in and day out, have done everything they could to take care of their families, to make their own way, to be selfsupporting taxpayers.

    Remarks On Federal Employees Earned Income Tax Credit ITY National Archives 1994

  • It has often been wrongly assumed that farming in underdeveloped countries is labor intensive, as an inference from the very large portion of the total labor force sustained in agriculture - in India, which is not selfsupporting in food, about 70 per cent.

    Gunnar Myrdal - Prize Lecture 1992

  • She yearns to be part of the American Dream, to be medication free, have a selfsupporting job, and save for a house.

    Health Care Letters Read In Rose Garden ITY National Archives 1993

  • It was not long after the end of the Second World War before it became apparent that if the Federal Republic of Germany was to recover from the ravages of the war, and if its people were to become selfsupporting, they must have the opportunity for external trade, and, if they were to have external trade, they must have steel; and, to have steel, they must have coal and the means of making steel.

    What is the Future of Your Dollar? 1962

  • Women seem to, no matter how advanced and selfsupporting they are.

    4.50 From Paddington Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1959

  • It has no industry, is in no way selfsupporting like London or Paris.

    Inside Spain Today 1946

  • In reality the moral and logical nexus between the payment of taxes and the control of the public revenue is that the solvent and selfsupporting citizens, and only these, are entitled to direct its financial policy.

    The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage Almroth Wright 1904

  • a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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