Sentences with phrase «beggars because»

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

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They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

Athy, dear, you're just another one of those lame and blind beggars who hasn't seen the light of day, so he thinks that his darkness is all there is... Don't boast yourself of your thinking, you're desperately deficient, because the most important part of you is DEAD.

A foe of Christianity in the second century ridiculed this religion because it attracted «the very dregs of the population, peasants, mechanics, beggars, and slaves.»

Excessive fascination with technical healing is dangerous because it only increases the monopoly of power and drives beggars into deeper blindness.

They have an interest in postponing that time, because it would mean sharing power with beggars and being surrounded by more people who speak out and make claims.

Perhaps, because he was a beggar, he never had access to nutritious food or to health care, and so became blind.

When Bob Cratchit brings the little crippled boy home from church on Christmas, he says to his wife: «He told me, coming home, that he hoped people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.»

Because it beggars believe that he'd go and hang out with a warlord without asking who he is or doing two minutes of googling.

Citing what he says is the situation in Kenya, Dr Draman said when MPs leave office in few months they become beggars, disillusioned and some die because they do not fulfill their main reason for going to Parliament which is to get ministerial appointment.

One of the more upsetting depictions is that of a child being forced to have his eyes seared by heat and acid because he can earn more money as a blind beggar.

Beggars not being choosers, I booked the flight without hesitation because the weather forecast wasn't good and we wanted to get on with it.

The Beggar King is a book mainly suited for adults because it contains strong language and mature themes.

There was Santiago, the beggar in Mexico who told me he was smiling because «life was so beautiful.»

This kind of thing was going to happen sooner or later because it simply beggars belief that a free money system, with no strings attached to the cash aside from reputation, was going to magically avoid any sort of funding fuck - up or even abuse.

Job seekers often express discomfort about networking because they feel like they're beggars for leads, referrals, and ideas.

They're street beggars who have been rounded up by the police because they «make the city unsightly with all their begging».