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Given the relativity concept, poverty cannot be eliminated. Indeed, an economic upturn with a broad improvement in household income does not guarantee a decrease in the size of the poor population, especially when the income growth of households below the poverty line is less promising than the overall.
Carrie Lam
Poverty
Broad
Relativity
Indeed
Promising
Given
Economic
Poverty Line
Overall
Concept
Household
Households
Does
Line
Than
Improvement
Size
Cannot
Poor
Decrease
Less
Population
Income
Growth
Eliminated
Below
Guarantee
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
Charles Duhigg
You
Down
Other
Late
Rules
Punishment
Out
Promising
Some
Small
Tactics
Throughout
Write
Never
Were
Confessions
Quotations
Again
China
Explaining
Used
Companies
Chairman
Why
Violate
Copy
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
Charles Krauthammer
War
First
Thinking
Consists
Destructive
Promising
Threats
Prevent
Purpose
Cruel
Retaliation
Unthinkable
Beyond
Doctrine
Involves
First Place
Making
Place
Nuclear
Imagining
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
Christine Pelosi
Food
Culture
Welfare
Free
Big
Presidential
Defined
Promising
Would
Folks
Food Stamps
Free Stuff
He
Stuff
Nomination
Executives
Shelters
Mitt
Mitt Romney
End
Won
Big Oil
Dependency
Oil
Tax
So-Called
Tax Breaks
Romney
Breaks
Republicans
Poor
Stamps
With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.
Clara Shih
Privacy
Security
Promising
Immune
Nobody
New
Terms
Also
Vulnerabilities
New Technologies
Endless
Technologies
I've been thinking about a cookbook. I've been making notes and promising myself I'll do it some day. I have an idea for a cookbook and music together.
Clarence Clemons
Music
Myself
Day
Together
Thinking
Promising
Some
About
Idea
Making
Been
Notes
Cookbook
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
Clive Granger
Mathematics
Fashion
Thought
Promising
Some
Practical
Preferred
Use
My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.
Craig Robinson
Me
Comedy
Sky
Father
Promising
Tried
He
Mainly
Like
Pie
Because
Felt
Discourage
Going
It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.
Crystal Gayle
Work
Promising
Would
Develop
Nashville
Artists
Used
As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.
Deeyah Khan
Girl
Singing
Abandoned
Promising
Islamists
Due
Harassment
Career
Violent
Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.
Diego Luna
Impossible
Promising
Directors
Should
Paid
Things
Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.
Dustin Moskovitz
Good
Together
Facebook
People
Employees
Few
Think
Good Ideas
Once
Promising
Put
Exciting
Idea
Employee
Ideas
Very
Being
Happen
Really
Company
Start
These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.
Eric Schneiderman
Learning
Real Estate
Become
Enterprise
Promising
Would
Wealthy
Facts
Students
Clear
Instructor
Real
His
Trump
Taught
Tips
Estate
Strategies
University
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
Frank Drake
Time
Learning
People
Sky
Stars
Those
Presume
Thousand
Promising
Able
Entire
Somehow
Examined
Only
Date
Fact
Couple
Been
Efforts
Closely
Any
Just
Which
Might
Planets
Now
Nearby
Things
Monitoring
The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
Gary Lineker
Nature
Fear
Revolution
Our
Astounding
Promising
Parental
Johnny
Most
Cultural
Sensitive
Depressing
Dads
Utterly
Competitive
Need
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
George Will
Politics
Democracy
Promises
Politicians
Promising
Seek
Exchange
Voters
Votes
Who
Things
The National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade association of apartment owners, managers, developers and lenders, has come to the defense of the interest deduction and other provisions favorable to the real estate industry, describing them as 'core principles' and promising a fight.
James B. Stewart
Fight
Real Estate
National
Defense
Other
Favorable
Promising
Council
Developers
Come
Industry
Principles
Housing
Trade
Real
Provisions
Managers
Owners
Estate
Interest
Apartment
Them
Deduction
Describing
Association
Core
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton
World
Few
Promising
Would-Be
Poetry
Poets
Real
Workshop
University
The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.
John McAfee
Privacy
Phones
Smart
Stupid
Promising
Most
Dumping
Thing
Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.
Justin Trudeau
Politics
Time
You
Cynical
Kind
Promising
Seems
Something
Deliver
Never
Part
Know
Any
Going
Want
Popular
It takes time, but I have a promising team of younger Ministers, and I am quite sure from amongst them, one leader will emerge.
Lee Hsien Loong
Time
Will
Leader
Ministers
Promising
Emerge
Takes
Sure
Am
Quite
Them
Younger
Team
Amongst
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
Lincoln Steffens
Government
Good
Vote
Wait
Election
Party
Politician
Other
Say
Out
Bad
Promising
Would
More
Throw
He
Supply
Feel
Demand
Mass
Ticket
Equally
Till
Commercial
Then
Next
Next Election
Good Government
Two
An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.
Lisa Randall
Creative
People
Progress
Important
Right Questions
Correctly
Promising
Ability
Indispensable
Exciting
Almost
Most
Identify
Accessible
Questions
Person
Any
Formulate
Skill
Creative People
Creative Person
Eventually
Routes
Right
Pose
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
M. J. Rose
Waiting
Members
Promising
Writer
Celebrated
List
Fiction
Newcomers
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
Mark Udall
Death
You
Marriage
Commitment
Partner
Think
Those
Significance
Promising
About
Part
Institution
Importance
Talk
Closest
Front
Fidelity
Your
Standing
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
Love
Woman
Obey
Honour
Neither
Promising
She
Does
Nor
Ill
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