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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
immiserate .
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Firstly, because carrots are the only things which will work, and secondly, because using sticks immiserates all of us, and I certainly don't want to be immiserated to 'punish' the people who provide my daily bread an butter.
Capitalism as a Benevolent System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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No one familiar with his atrocious record can be in the least surprised that Bunning was content to be the public face of a political move that not only cannot succeed in the long run, and which intentionally immiserates and impoverishes people -- but which finally costs the government and the states MORE money.
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No one familiar with his atrocious record can be in the least surprised that Bunning was content to be the public face of a political move that not only cannot succeed in the long run, and which intentionally immiserates and impoverishes people -- but which finally costs the government and the states MORE money.
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Is it really βwarβ when a major military force β a nuclear state ever expanding - immiserates a mostly defenceless people?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This week a massive American-British study of some two million souls throughout 80 countries confirms, empirically, that middle age immiserates us all without regard to income, culture, gender, marital status or previous experience.
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This week an American-British study of some two million souls in 80 countries confirms, empirically, that middle age immiserates us all without regard to income, culture, gender, marital status or previous experience.
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Last week a massive American-British study of some two million souls throughout 80 countries confirms, empirically, that middle age immiserates us all without regard to income, culture, gender, marital status or previous experience.
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Hamas therefore immiserates its own people and deliberately provokes Israel in a manner that give the Israelis no alternative -- after 8 years of rockets -- but a military response.
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