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They were poor, penniless and desolate after hundreds of years of British and Spanish slavery, hungry, suffering yaws, cholera and yellow fever.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
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They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They found that directors received fewer votes from shareholders when their companies performed poorly, had excess CEO compensation, or had poor shareholder protection.
They alighted out of the coach and went into a poor woman's house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman exenterate it ".
They took additional lessons on May 10 ; however, with poor English skills, they did not do well with flight lessons.
They are trained and equipped to modify physical disease states and the actual cytoarchitecture and functioning of the central nervous and related systems using psychological and pharmacological techniques ( when allowed by statute ), and to provide prevention for the progression of disease having to do with poor personal and life-style choices and conceptualization, behavioral patterns, and chronic exposure to the effects of negative thinking, choosing, attitudes, and negative contexts.
They demanded and received a ransom of $ 60 million in cash as well as $ 1. 2 million worth of food and clothing to be given to the poor.
They declared that the merger with the mainland Tanzania, based on the now dead ideology of socialism, had transformed Zanzibar from a bustling economic power to a poor, neglected appendage.
They report that while there are many cities in the desert, the area seems too poor to be worthy of conquest.
They have some promise in antistatic materials and they have been incorporated into commercial displays and batteries, but there have had limitations due to the manufacturing costs, material inconsistencies, toxicity, poor solubility in solvents, and inability to directly melt process.
They mention his defeating Spartacus, that Caesar exiles him due to his popularity, to a poor province-where he's very cruel to the populace ; he conquers the Amazons, under Queen Zenobia ( who apparently rules a tribe of Amazons in the same province, Pannae one assumes.
They proceeded to effectively disfranchise all blacks and many poor whites by new constitutions and laws related to voter registration and elections.
" They rent a run-down apartment in the neighborhood of Long Island City and begin working at a local fast food restaurant called McDowell's ( restaurateur Cleo McDowell's attempt to copy McDonald's ), passing themselves off as poor foreign students.
They spared a few homes " because Turner believed the poor white inhabitants ' thought no better of themselves than they did of negros.
They have a distinctive role in the liturgy, their main tasks being to proclaim the Gospel, preach, assist in the administration of the Eucharist and to serve the poor and outcast.
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