livelihood
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Mr. Liu, former chair of the pro-democracy Association for Democracy and People’s Livelihood, reportedly left the police station later Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
Livelihood diversification: Currently, to obtain fishing rights, a person must derive the majority of their livelihood from fishing.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2022
Last month, Matvichuk and the CCL received the Right Livelihood award, known as the Alternative Nobel, for “building sustainable democratic institutions in Ukraine and modeling a path to international accountability for war crimes.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
In 2022, 175 nominees from 77 countries were considered, the Right Livelihood said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022
When he Came to Make a Choice of some means of Earning a Livelihood, he found he was Unsuccessful, for he had no Specialty, and Every Employer seemed to Require an Expert in his Line.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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