Besides murdering and impoverishing his people, Amin also made his country a laughing stock.
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And if that is what he means, it is an impoverishing version of liberalism.
Failure to do so could mean that your venture enriches you while impoverishing those it was supposed to help.
We have felt the impoverishing impact of this investment slump here in Britain.
Their governments genuinely want peace, not least because war is impoverishing them.
They are likely to give priority to the short-term claims of the public finances at the expense of impoverishing Argentines and their children in the future.
On the spending front, Bernanke engaged in one of the most impoverishing economic fallacies of all--the one that says individuals must consume for an economy to grow.
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Stronger currencies would reduce this impoverishing flight to the real.
They tend to have too little savings to pay for even a couple of years of care without impoverishing themselves and their families, and too much to qualify for Medicaid.
Devaluation not only exports wealth elsewhere, but by virtue of impoverishing the American exporter, we ultimately impoverish our trading partners who lack a robust market in which to send their own goods.
Left-of-centre Greeks voted for Syriza both to punish Pasok for impoverishing the country and because Syriza opposes reforms that would open up closed-shop professions in a bid to make Greece more competitive.
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In mid-April, dozens of protest groups are planning to converge on Washington to highlight their opposition to the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which they say are impoverishing less developed countries.
Or to put it another way, Greece's austerity programme is succeeding in impoverishing Greek people with little in the way of discernible benefits to the Greek private sector and the capacity of Greece to start earning its way in the world.
By deploying so many large, economical aircraft from a vast base, open around the clock and halfway between Europe and Asia, Emirates could in effect run a global hub, reducing European airports to a feeder role and impoverishing their associated flag carriers.
This puts political and ethical limits on how far the drive for economic equality ought to go. (Strictly practical limits, as well, since too noble a determination to take from the rich to give to the poor will end up impoverishing everyone.) It also means that perfect economic equality should never be embraced, even implicitly, as an ideal.
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