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- Unlike civilian demolition, military house demolition is also often intended to destroy property "within" a building, such as food or personal effects, either to deny its use to an enemy or to impoverish the civilian occupants.
- Late in Twain's life, he had, through imprudent investments and more than a little bad luck, managed to impoverish himself.
- reflected poorly on Joseph's character, as to seize the surplus produce and then compel the Egyptians to impoverish themselves to buy it back was not consistent with justice and equity.
- Ngoni agricultural practices of shifting or slash-and-burn cultivation and overstocking cattle were said to impoverish the soil and promoted the spread of the tsetse fly.
- Crucially, he distinguished the roles of "savings" and "investment" – since only investment is directly productive, savings may be harmful to the economy, and may "tend to impoverish others" – a form of the paradox of thrift.
- Hence to present a humanism without placing the transcendent at its center is to impoverish human beings; it will be the greatest injustice to them.
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