Let it be understood that I have a truly orthodox dread of "pauperisation," and I watch very jealously the doings of those who are anxious to feed all sorts and conditions of men; but pauperising men by maintaining them in laziness is very different from rearing useful subjects of the empire, whose trained labour is a source of profit and whose developed morality is a fund of security. From Wordnik.com. [Side Lights] Reference
There is this idea that he is a philosopher when actually he is representative of nothing other than the pauperisation of French intellectual life.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday, April 30, 2006] Reference
Faced with such grim economic prospects, thousands have voted with their feet, preferring the uncertainties of a new life abroad, to pauperisation at home. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The union said the increase also reversed the recent pauperisation of workers caused by stagnant wages in an environment of rising inflation and food prices. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Never, never — try as we might — could any single one of us be quite in the position of one of those whose approaching pauperisation my distant relative had so vehemently deplored. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
It will be marked by our steady advance towards the elimination of poverty rather than the expanding pauperisation of the majority that has been one of the distinguishing features of our country for. From Wordnik.com. [Response of President Thabo Mbeki, to the Debate on The State of The Nation Address] Reference
Its spokesman, Dumisa Ntuli, said Ameo's wage offer was 6,5 percent across the board, while the union was determined to have a 15 percent increase to reserve the gradual pauperisation of workers and close the wage gap. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This paper, by focussing on India, documents micro-level evidence on the contribution of CPRs to poor people's livelihoods, their steep declines in area and production over the last 40 years, the collapse of traditional management systems, and the pauperisation of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [1. Rural common property resources: a growing crisis.] Reference
Paul, 71, opposed the pauperisation of the population. From Wordnik.com. [World Socialist Web Site] Reference
"Reform means the pauperisation of the French" says one. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The one thing to avoid in the giving away of money is pauperisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanished Messenger] Reference
Legislature or private individuals can adopt without causing pauperisation. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War] Reference
There was no proper rehabilitation and pauperisation increased in that area. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
But inflation shed its deadly rain discriminately, so that for some the reality of pauperisation lay hardly below the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
Ethnic cleansing (to use the modern euphemism) and the dispossession and pauperisation of an entire population cannot be achieved merely by diplomacy and negotiation. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
If Brown's fiscal stimulus turns out to be merely yet more tax credits, he should be jumped on from a great height since this will increase pauperisation and dependency. From Wordnik.com. [Spectator Live] Reference
Albright, lest we forget, is the same woman who foisted mass pauperisation on Iraq in pursuit of the ignoble goal of putting that country's oil resources under western control. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Never, never -- try as we might -- could any single one of us be quite in the position of one of those whose approaching pauperisation my distant relative had so vehemently deplored. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference
Has anyone been held accountable for gargantuan scandals like the sale of telecom spectrum, or the frauds in the sale of mining companies like Sesa Goa, or the pauperisation of Air India?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
If such a long and intense struggle was possible, it is not only because it was carried forward by enormous anger against growing pauperisation, but also by a profound feeling of solidarity. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Foad Mardukhi alerts me to an article by Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, which spells out the pauperisation of writers and their loss of status in our new internet culture. From Wordnik.com. [FictionBitch] Reference
What they should be doing is attacking Brown's proposed tax cuts, which will almost certainly turn out not to be real tax cuts at all but tax credits which merely recycle as a handout what people have already earned and thus promote pauperisation and dependency. From Wordnik.com. [Spectator Live] Reference
State maintenance for mothers and children, life will become a riot, that husbands will constantly change wives and wives husbands, and that, owing to the absence of all responsibility on the part of the parents for their offspring, over-population and consequent pauperisation will take place. From Wordnik.com. [British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals] Reference
In practice the Labour Company found it advisable to add to its statutory obligations of food and shelter a few pence a day as an inducement to effort; and its enterprise had not only abolished pauperisation altogether, but supplied practically all but the very highest and most responsible labour throughout the world. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
"The factor that made the greatest contribution to the ongoing pauperisation of the poorest plus minus 18-million, is the sharp increase in unemployment since 1970. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If Brown’s fiscal stimulus turns out to be merely yet more tax credits, he should be jumped on from a great height since this will increase pauperisation and dependency. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
What they should be doing is attacking Brown’s proposed tax cuts, which will almost certainly turn out not to be real tax cuts at all but tax credits which merely recycle as a handout what people have already earned and thus promote pauperisation and dependency. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Keynes’ “General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” was penned because he feared that large scale pauperisation and hardship caused by the 1930s depression needs to be an urgent policy issue for governments to avert violent social upheavel as Germany saw in the rise of Nazism. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Whatcha Reading About?] Reference
A growing mass of opposition to apartheid in these countries, finally impacting on the public policies of their governments; an economic base that over many decades had the possibility of rapid expansion, creating limited possibilities for the advancement even of the oppressed, and yet growing pauperisation among the majority and intensified class contradictions, in an industrial society underpinned by the racial divide. From Wordnik.com. [ANC - People's Movement and Agent for Change] Reference
That a citizen, kindly and fair in his ordinary life, could as a shareholder become almost murderously greedy; that commercial methods that were reasonable and honourable on the old-fashioned countryside, should on an enlarged scale be deadly and overwhelming; that ancient charity was modern pauperisation, and ancient employment modern sweating; that, in fact, a revision and enlargement of the duties and rights of man had become urgently necessary, were things it could not entertain, nourished as it was on an archaic system of education and profoundly retrospective and legal in all its habits of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
Reform means the pauperisation of the French. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
CPRs and pauperisation. From Wordnik.com. [1. Rural common property resources: a growing crisis.] Reference
It's all sheer pauperisation. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference
It’s all sheer pauperisation.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
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