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live on the breadline

If you are on the breadline yes you have a problem.

You talk about this to anyone, Percy told the rest of us afterward, and you'll all be on the breadlines in a week.

I was on the breadlines in '81, and again in '88.

None of us is on the breadline yet!

It's not like we are going to be on the breadline, but it will be a retirement that is very carefully planned."

"There's a lot of resentment and anger towards them because we're on the breadline and they take our business.

And resorts, tour operators and shops cannot afford to advertise if they are on the breadline.

Whether ma's on the breadline, or daddy's

As one black told a U.S. reporter, "my family is on the breadline, and I will break the jaw of any man who preaches to me about sanctions."

"Their housing benefit cuts are going to mean in my view, if they go through, that some people who are on the breadline will be put below the breadline.

The problem with people being on the breadline all their lives is not that there is a breadline to cling to, it is that there is no mechanism to bring them off it.

Naturally, churches must make ends meet, but St Paul's does not appear to be on the breadline, with a charitable foundation and a City of London endowment trust showing millions of pounds in assets.

In 2010 she admitted she was "living on the breadline."

With 2 million pensioners living on the breadline, the next government will also need to tackle poverty in old age.

The bulk of creatives live on the breadline.

People in Gaza are living on the breadline; the difference between the two Palestinian territories is beginning to become obvious.

Licence Fee: Families living on the breadline can't afford to pay a lump sum of £145.

The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens.

INDIE rockers Suede lived on the breadline for 18 months before finding pop success.

Putting an arbitray time limit on occupation will only add one more stress to living on the breadline, which is presumably why Cameron is interested in instituting it.

ONE QUARTER of people living in Scotland may be living on the breadline according to figures released by the Labour party yesterday.

She was soon well into it, obviously having never been treated decently by a man in her life, and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.

Many of them are living on the breadline and they deserve to benefit from their genius and this certainly can be done by protecting the IPR online and offline environments.

Most writers live on the breadline, and it can be hard to take a moral stand when you really, really need the money, and the publicity that a prize can bring can turn around the career of a struggling writer.

They sold their wedding presents back to their guests, and having given away four houses in succession, lived on the breadline, taking menial jobs as cleaners, cooks and fruit-pickers, working at K-Mart and living in a shack.

And the electorate - well, at least those not in poverty, or who have an iota of sense and compassion - will heartily agree that, indeed, it was people live on the breadline that brought us to the terrible economic situation that we're in.