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1. Have food stamps saved anyone? Has anyone been better off in life because they have health insurance? Does life get easier when we have these conveniences? Our tax money goes to pay for things like health insurance, food stamps, social security, Medicare, upkeep of unused buildings (that could be used to shelter the homeless if our Government really did care about us), great scientific studies like whether sick shrimp perform as well on a treadmill as healthy shrimp (this is a real study funded by the Government – it cost about 15 million dollars), army expenses, paying off the interest on our nation’s debt, veteran’s benefits, and government jobs such as postal workers or police officers
2. Your dermatologist will advise you on the care and upkeep of tender skin
3. Naturally, the upkeep of the two properties takes a chunk of the income
4. experiences with the upkeep of motor vehicles as an adolescent had
5. for the upkeep inside and out, for the two-story home that takes a lot of
6. On the sides were palm trees, gardens and fountains, all immaculate in their appearance and upkeep
7. His dark smile only faded after the Nord had completely disappeared and Corpulus returned to his upkeep, not yet daring to inflict conversation upon them anew
8. Those cartoons jogged LP's memory of how small local football clubs raised money for the upkeep of their fields and clubhouses back in the early seventies
9. He was appalled at the size of the teoxihuitl the Xinesi had sent, but decided he would sell it so that he could contribute to my upkeep at the calmecac and make it easier for his friend Acolmiztli to help me
10. tasked with the peaceful upkeep
11. He can use it all he wants but the upkeep and all other expenses are paid by the Trust Fund
12. In addition to the basic, daily tasks for the upkeep
13. less costly in terms of upkeep, time and effort
14. public funding for upkeep dried up, the pool was closed
15. A facilitator focuses on team upkeep
16. But eventually Peter who was getting on in years and having to upkeep it decided to sell
17. They didn’t need the upkeep of the large house they lived in, they surmised
18. THE AVERAGE CONSUMER SPENDS ABOUT $1,750 A YEAR ON CLOTHING AND ITS UPKEEP,
19. Moreover, before setting out to Vanaprastham, vowing never to return to Delhi, he had entrusted his assets with trusted men in New Delhi for their proper upkeep
20. How stupid of him to have killed that fellow! It’s as if the dead soul had left his share of problems to his upkeep as it were! And having earned a sentence for himself, hadn’t he granted her unfettered freedom to have her way, anyway she liked? If anything, the news of her looseness would have whetted the appetites of many in the neighborhood
21. As they went round the premises, he complimented her for her professionalism and congratulated her for the upkeep of the place
22. So, as Peter left them to go toward the boat, Jesus remarked, half-humorously: "Strange that the sons of the king must pay tribute; usually it is the stranger who is taxed for the upkeep of the court, but it behooves us to afford no stumbling block for the authorities
23. The upkeep of the large houses became too much for many of the owners, that they have been sold off to management companies willing to transform the properties, and at the same time the companies can make a lot of money out of renting them
24. Your obligations as a lodger towards the maintenance and upkeep of the
25. One point to keep in mind is that the upkeep and replacement of the batteries within the
26. The yearly taxes and upkeep were about $25,000, without including the cost of a new roof and bringing the house into the twenty-first century
27. ” It was evident from the tone of his voice that he had respected the man greatly and that there was a distinct fondness for the man, even though he was deceased, probably due to an undying gratefulness for his generosity during his life that inspired this feeble creature to continue his upkeep of the grounds
28. until the value of his upkeep superseded his value as a laboring
29. difficulty paying their share of the taxes, maintenance and upkeep
30. will advise you on the care and upkeep of tender skin
31. Yet the cost of such upkeep can really get expensive after a while
32. It was a small, self contained city that required constant upkeep, round the clock shifts
33. The interest more than pays for her upkeep in the nursing home, and that is by no means cheap
34. Highly processed sugars, from white refined all the way to high-fructose corn syrup, cannot be properly digested and lack the nutrients essential to the proper upkeep of our bodies, while blocking our bodies ability to absorb water
35. It had become a nice, cosy little rut, with enough of an income to pay for his meagre lodgings and general upkeep
36. The new system did away with all of the wasted tax dollars on unnecessary jobs, court fees and utility bills and upkeep of the buildings
37. The wealth of the land was misused for the grandeur of their courts and the upkeep of their harems, needless to say, to the detriment of the populace
38. Persheron 8 is one of 9 planets and 47 moons in the Kroonum system whose sole purpose is law enforcement, jailing, detainment, execution, rehabilitation, law writing, law re-writing, finding of outdated laws and updating them, finding of updated laws and outdating them, covert undercover operations, and the seemingly never-ending creation, integration and upkeep of more branches of The Upgrading, Expansion, Keeping Up of and Maintenance of Kroonum Civility, Order & Peace Agency
39. “You are under arrest for the wreckless crashing of a fuel-less ship of Obotron crew members into the surface of the planet Lincra, the most populated and popular planet in existence,” blared the megaphone from the suddenly approaching battalion of the Kroonum Civility, Order and Peace Upkeep and Maintenance Division - Deltron Force Strike 9, sporting their spanking new crest and logo, freshly dubbed formal and binding by the Council of Eleven and a Half Thousand Different Colored Robes in the most recent hammering out of the Treaty of Manderbatt
40. But what impact will it have on competing local businesses? What percentage of the people who come in from surrounding areas will actually stop in at other businesses here? And what about the increased burden on the infrastructure? All that extra traffic that isn’t part of our tax base and isn’t going to be paying for upkeep of roads
41. A sign said it was for the upkeep of All Hallows and a picture showed carpenters mending the roof
42. She also confessed that she no longer attends lectures, and at regular intervals, their members pay certain amount of money for the funding of their activities, including the upkeep of their fraternity
43. True, it is used as a haunted house attraction, but how much upkeep do these Boy Scouts really do? Have they replaced the framework of the house, even inspected it? What if we destroyed the dishes at breakfast? Deception is a powerful thing, we only assumed that we did not and some other force did
44. The cemetery was technically located on private property, which was mostly the reason for the lack of upkeep
45. clothing and its upkeep, according to the U
46. As such, one would assume those entrusted with its upkeep would endeavor to execute their responsibilities as custodians of such a heritage with the utmost respect and accuracy
47. So she walks up to us and starts explaining to us where the money goes, part of it goes to the upkeep of the church, part of it was used to pay the water and lights and of course there is the priests salary as well as money for his quarters
48. The water and lights true, his salary also true but the upkeep of the church and his quarters I just couldn’t understand this justification of how our money was spent
49. If he had an answer I wasn’t interested, “your treasurer here has stated that the donations we make are in part used for the upkeep of the temple of the Lord yet here in front of me is the temple of the Lord and I see nothing that shows that what she’s saying is true
50. “You both claim that part of this money is used for the upkeep of the Lord’s place of worship but I look around and in the nearly two years that I’ve been a member I have yet to see these so called changes and upkeep you speak of constantly