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In the Asian financial crisis he claims it triggered a co-ordinated attack on the Thai baht that "destituted tens of millions".
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And they typically or 70 - or 80-something 'seniors' now demoralized and destituted, lost from all they ever worked and wished for.
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Remember, all those seeds of protesting have long ago sprouted petals of warriorism in the destituted minds of black people longing to be free to fight for freedom of their people.
Another Day, Another Kabaka Story... Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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So we see also that the science of medicine if it be destituted and forsaken by natural philosophy, it is not much better than an empirical practice.
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He was sorter destituted and not a bit up-to-date.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Prague and Galicia and Hungary, from Lombardy and Venetia, and from their own easy-going capital, had destituted Metternich.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917
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"Guimara," composed in the fifth century, Rabbi Rav Popè uses these words: "All operators who fail to use suction, and thereby cause the infant to run any risk, should be destituted of the right to perform the ceremony."
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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For although they haue noe true knoledge of God nor of his holye worde and are destituted of all lerninge, Yet they passe vs in many thinges, as in Sober feedinge and Dexteritye of witte, in makinge without any instrument of mettall thinges so neate and so fine, as a man would scarsclye beleue thesame, Vnless the Englishemen Had made proofe Therof by their trauailes into the contrye.
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But the destituted man said, sailor or no sailor, -- bos'en be hanged! he should pay for his whistle.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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But the destituted man said, sailor or no sailor, -- bos'en be hanged! he should pay for his whistle.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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