He missed the start of the appeal a month ago because he was in poor health.

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Will you decide to leave the future a society where a man is condemned to hopelessness because he was born poor?

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Many northerners voted for him because he was a Muslim or because most of them are as poor as any southern Nigerian, despite the north's wealthy and powerful upper class.

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He lived for most of his working life in Collioure, in southern France, because it was cheap, at least in the early days when he was poor.

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Davis' strategy: Bring down Wiederhorn's federal prosecutor, Lance Caldwell, by saying that Caldwell lost his perspective and exercised poor judgment because he was too personally invested in Wiederhorn's case.

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And star leg-spinner Collins Obuya revealed to BBC Sport that he was considering a career as a doctor because of the poor pay on offer to cricketers.

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He just played a poor shot - it wasn't because of technique, it was more his mental application.

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And he rejected the idea put forward by employers' organisations that because private sector pension provision was poor by comparison, public sector pensions should be dragged down to the same level.

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He lived and worked in a poor community and he noticed many residents used material from old billboards for roofing, because it was waterproof and mildew-proof.

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