So that saved him from the poverty of his skin.

让他从贫穷中得救的是他的肤色。

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Chen Shi enlightened him by saying: "Judging from your appearance, you don't look like a bad man. Perhaps you are driven by poverty to steal."

陈宴开导他说：“看你的样子并不像坏人，你这样做，恐怕也是被贫困逼出来的。”

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Some fighters are from countries "beholden to him" and those fleeing the grinding poverty in their homelands, Mustapha said.

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What really turns him on, apart from macroeconomic policy, are welfare and labour-market issues such as reducing child poverty and getting unemployed people back to work.

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