• People who work for a living should be able to make a living from their work.

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  • Once people decided that they wanted to make a living from giving economic advice, they needed customers.

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  • Now, with falling interest rates and a deficit-cutting government, they will have to make a living from real banking.

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  • Like most other Cuban rap groups, "Los Aldeanos" aren't yet in a position to make a living from their music.

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  • Mr Graves said the couple were able to make a living from their trade but did not make a huge profit.

    BBC: Ceramic painters fear traditional skills could die out

  • Mr Gaddis gained a view of the practical world during the years when he was unable to make a living from literature.

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  • The kind that actually wants to make a living from writing books.

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  • That has destroyed the economic viability of the business model for growers such as myself, to make a living from selling high-quality grapes.

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  • The game in Argentina was and remains resolutely amateur, so the offers to make a living from the sport were repeatedly rebuffed until his father persuaded him to go to England.

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  • But Campfire Association Zimbabwe - which advocates being able to make a living from wildlife - supports the idea of legalising the trade, saying it is time efforts looked at untested measures as opposed to the current ones which are not always effective.

    BBC: Could legalising horn trade save rhinos?

  • "There is the ability for the tenants to object to the planning permission on the grounds that it would have a massive affect on that tenant's ability to make a living from the holding, " said George Dunn, chief executive of the Tenant Farmer's Association.

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  • If the what is that of a freelance writer and the vision is to make a living wage from your writing within the first two years, then part of your strategy will be to plan out how to get from Point A to Point B.

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  • The question of how much traffic it takes to make a living also comes from the Technorati report.

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  • In many of these countries the communities most vulnerable to local storms make a living from fishing in the coastal zone in small, relatively fragile craft.

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  • The people who own, train, and breed horses understandably welcome any chance to make a living and a profit from the sport and the horses they love.

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  • As she poured herself into the work, she reminded herself that she had to make a living with it and from it, to pay attention to the numbers and business side.

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  • At risk are more than 600 species of coral (76 percent of all that is known to us) and 3, 000 separate species of plants, not to mention the 120 million people who make a living from the reefs, according to AFP.

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  • McCardle considers herself lucky to write about business and make a living from it.

    FORBES: Steve Jobs Showed It's Not Indulgent to Follow Your Bliss, It's Required

  • She told investigators she heard nothing during the night and had walked to the kitchen past a trail of blood in the living room to make coffee when she found a note from Matthew.

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  • Those who make a living from trying to get their clients' pages higher on Google's search results are particularly vexed by even the idea of Knol.

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  • Think for a moment if somebody told you that from now on you were not going to make a living by writing, but that instead you would have to find a manufacturing job because the global market has concluded that it is much cheaper to outsource journalistic work to India.

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  • Then there are the people who would like to turn what they love to make into a business and earn a living or part-time income from their craft, design, invention or kit.

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  • "He's not doing this to make a living, " said Liz Tullis, who lives around the corner from the Toilet Seat Art Museum.

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  • According to the non-profit group SocioEnvironmental Institute (ISA), there are now 300 workers -- from indigenous families to former illegal loggers -- who make a living collecting seeds.

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  • With diminished ways to make a living, many were -- and still are -- forced to eat food and drink water from the polluted areas where they live.

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  • Beginning in the 1980s, however, prize money and sponsorship dollars from shoe companies started to become sufficient enough for the best runners to begin to make a living at their sport.

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  • This was, with a further sad irony, the only period in which Daumier, having toiled all his life to make a meagre living and now almost blind, managed to fulfil the conventional role of the fine artist far removed from the moral hurly-burly and commercial exigencies of the city.

    ECONOMIST: Honor�� Daumier

  • That said, for five years now I have kicked off the New Year by taking a plunge in the icy waters of New York's Coney Island, a tradition I was introduced to while living in Dublin, where I joined hundreds of locals who make an annual Christmas leap from a rock at Sandycove and baptize themselves in the freezing Irish Sea.

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  • There were pictures of Shia martyrs, and also of Moqtada al-Sadr, outside the real-estate offices, some of which, I was told, were fronts for brothels. (Large numbers of Iraqi women make their living in Syria as prostitutes.) Shortly before midnight, buses from Baghdad began to pull into a parking lot where boys were still up, playing soccer.

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