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Example sentences for "moderate means"

  • What chance has the man of moderate means had to improve his position, to save a little for his old age, during the last ten years?

  • The middle classes, meaning by the middle classes professional men and men of moderate means, bore the chief burden of the war.

  • We number amongst our adherents the majority of the professional classes and the majority of the thinking people amongst the community of moderate means.

  • Taxation would not then fall unduly on the man of moderate means; and while none would be entirely exempt from assessment, all, in proportion to their pecuniary abilities, would contribute toward the support of the State.

  • The insurance companies, which are practically mutual benefit societies--especially helpful to men of moderate means--represent accumulations of capital which are among the largest in this country.

  • The object is to encourage thrift and economy in the wage-earner and person of moderate means.

  • President McKinley was a man of moderate means, a man whose stock sprang from the sturdy tillers of the soil, who had himself belonged among the wage-workers, who had entered the Army as a private soldier.

  • The discomforts of life in New York, however, fall chiefly upon educated and refined people of moderate means.

  • Living in New York is so expensive that persons of moderate means reside in the suburbs, some of them as far as forty miles in the country.

  • People of moderate means, and the laboring classes were obliged to leave the city to obtain such recreation.

  • They might afford it, but people of moderate means, who cannot properly make such a heavy outlay, are among those most guilty of the fault.

  • The pews rent for sums far beyond the purses of persons of moderate means, so that the majority of New Yorkers are compelled to roam about, from church to church, in order to hear the gospel at all.

  • These establishments are better known to the general public than those we have just described, as they are open to all persons of moderate means.

  • In the majority of establishments owned by people of moderate means, however, the meal is simpler, but need be no less delightful.

  • Except on state occasions, candles are barred out for people of moderate means, and they must have recourse to lamps or gas.

  • Besides all these, in this favored period, there is scarcely a day in the year when an attractive dish of fresh fruit is beyond the reach of people of moderate means.

  • And with persons of moderate means, the necessity for the eye of the master overlooking everything, is absolutely necessary for the proper conduct of business.

  • They may be men of moderate means; they may even be poor; but not many of them moving in general society have the moral courage to seem to be so.

  • All these benefactors of the poor were originally men of moderate means.

  • Illustration] But if the beauty of Broadway as a country high-road had been marred by its adaptation to the exigencies of a suburb of moderate means, we boys felt the deprivation but little.

  • And yet you must live, oh, people of moderate means!

  • But deer cannot coexist with a population composed of what we call "People of Moderate Means.

  • Such a house is suited to young people of moderate means, or possibly to older ones, where there are no children, or where the housekeeper does her own work.

  • The arrangement described here can be reached by nearly every one of moderate means.

  • The cost of fuel is of more importance to a man of moderate means than to one of wealth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accusation against; beautiful country; being alone; curious look; exogamous groups; field goal; fine black; got out; moderate amount; moderate breeze; moderate cost; moderate degree; moderate heat; moderate length; moderate oven; moderate oven for about; moderate quantity; moderate size; moderate winters; moderately strong; moderately warm; north wind; present state; thousand warriors; three pounds; white flannels