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"beggar" Definitions
  1. a person who lives by asking people for money or food
  2. (British English, informal) used with an adjective to describe somebody in a particular way

259 Sentences With "beggar"

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The press, Galley Beggar, based in Norwich, accepted the book.
Then he turned to a paralyzed beggar at his feet.
The beggar in the dark blue cap is readiest to smile.
Galley Beggar, on the other hand, was a revelation in paisley.
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Joris looked like a beggar that didn't want to come in.
Two beggar children kick an empty plastic bottle back and forth.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar.
Being a beggar on the street is not an immutable characteristic.
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief" 11.
These trusts will not beggar their families or their favorite charitable pursuits.
He's a beggar, but he's worth about $900 million more than me.
" Fisher, who was beside her daughter, interrupted: "Do I seem like a beggar?
The miser borrows a kopeck from a peasant to give to a beggar.
Many economists predicted that the Fed's ballooning cash creation would beggar the dollar.
Just as Rony&aposs shift begins, a beggar stops him wanting a cigarette.
Should U.S. policy beggar friendly democratic neighbors to court an unfriendly repressive neighbor?
"That beggar over there is worth $20003 million more than I am," he wrote.
"(The ECB) simply don't have the tools; except beggar thy neighbor tools," he said.
Walk down many streets in Caracas and you may be approached by a beggar.
At some point, they became the tail-wagging beggar now celebrated as man's best friend.
Each person has a right to privacy, whether they are a king or a beggar.
Unlike tariffs and other barriers to trade, this is not a "beggar thy neighbor" approach.
We now have And Other Stories, Galley Beggar, even Unbound publishing award-winning, groundbreaking fiction.
And in my culture, a beggar is the last thing you'd ever want to be.
"We need to improve policy coordination and reject beggar-thy-neighbour practices," Xi told the forum.
The little beggar, with long dark tresses, sits on a stone step against a mountain scape.
He'd once sent a draft of his adaptation of Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" to the playwright.
Europe came to the table quarreling and desperate — not as a partner, but as a beggar.
It's like you might think: Today's the day I'm going to give a beggar some money.
An assertion that Flynn wasn't an important figure in the Trump inner circle would beggar belief.
"The Saudis have destroyed us and destroyed the country," said Mr. Hajori, the farmer-turned-beggar.
To woo their well-heeled clients, such companies create events so intimate that they beggar belief.
If this president moves forward with these "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies, there will be unintended consequences.
These policy principles should also include consequences for currency manipulators and export-driven "beggar-thy-neighbor" traders.
A JOURNALIST, a public servant and a beggar walk into a bar, runs a South Korean joke.
" Don Taylor, his former manager, says that Blackwell turned Marley into "a beggar of the jet set.
And a Republican regime that promoted economic nationalism would surely enrich its friends and beggar its enemies.
Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service — two dishes, but to one table.
That takes us back to the effective limits of monetary policy and beggar-thy-neighbor currency depreciations.
It's a true ensemble piece, where everyone takes a turn being both a beggar and a boss.
And there is no willingness to forgo the short-run benefits of beggar-thy-neighbor exchange rate depreciation.
When you tell a person in need that they have no choice, you turn them into a beggar.
A World Bank report last year concluded that climate change could beggar 100 million more people by 2030.
"He's concerned that there is some certain beggar-thy-neighbor policies in the currency market," he said Tuesday.
Still, he made an earnest and emotionally grounded Porgy, a kindly, disabled beggar, and won a rousing ovation.
"Beggar," like another woodcut of the same title, portrays a destitute woman asking for a scrap of bread.
A well-known problem with free zones is that they can turn into a domestic beggar-thy-neighbour policy.
Part of the appeal in a work such as "Little Beggar," (1880), is the sensual beauty of the girls.
So long as such incentives are legal, the result is an endless game of beggar-thy-neighbors-and-thyself.
General Saadi halted his Humvee and opened the heavily armored door to hand some food to an elderly beggar.
But cutting corporate taxes won't work if other countries keep using beggar-thy-neighbor tax schemes to attract investment.
"She said to me, 'You're just an immigrant beggar and no one is going to help you,'" said Luna.
"To go out and be a beggar was the worst thing you could ever ask me to do," she said.
One might play a beggar in one scene and lounge in an 18th century bed in bohemian clothing in another.
"Whatever he's done, forgive him," a legless beggar on a wheeled sled says as he paws himself into the shade.
"We need to improve policy coordination and reject beggar-thy-neighbour practices," Xi told the 29 national leaders attending the forum.
She used to live at Delhi's Nizammudin station, where she worked as a beggar, a rag picker and occasionally a thief.
According to one popular story, Emperor Justinian ordered Belisarius's eyes pulled out, and Krafft rendered the general as a blind beggar.
McBride's win drew attention to Galley Beggar Press and other independent publishers who have started challenging the hegemony of mainstream publishing.
Mr Cohn thinks that monetary policy is a global endeavour, and that central banks may have been playing beggar-thy-neighbour.
They eat mithai in the car with the windows rolled down, waving away flies and a beggar woman in a burqa.
It is likely that there is going to be a massive effort to beggar thy neighbor through currency manipulation and devaluation.
And there was a beggar who would sit at the table of the rich man and he would get the crumbs.
The woodcuts were inspired by the work of Ernst Barlach, a German sculptor who himself created a series of "Beggar" sculptures.
Beggar-thy-neighbor refers to international trade policy which aids the country which enacted it while harming its neighbors or trade partners.
In a single generation, the country went from beggar to donor, showing that rapid growth and democracy can go hand in hand.
The 80-year-old — tall, with broad shoulders and a long white beard — receives all of them the same, minister or beggar.
Just like in the 1930s, it is easy to foresee a self-defeating spiral of beggar-thy-neighbour policies as a result.
According to a Russian proverb, notes Mr Fridman, you can never be sure you won't go to prison or be a beggar.
Her company was an inspiration for Galley Beggar Press, the independent publisher behind Eimar McBride's A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing.
His guards tried to shoo the man away, but Hilal reached into his shirt pocket and gave the beggar all his cash.
This might explain why Ronnie felt comfortable enough to shoot another man dead at the Blind Beggar pub while several witnesses watched.
The subject of "Beggar Seated on a Bank" (1630) extends his hand for alms and calls out to the viewer with exasperation.
It also needs to be more vocal in criticizing Ireland, the Netherlands and other inversion destinations for their beggar-thy-neighbor tax policies.
ROM: In your recent comic strip, Beggar Comics, there is a portion of it that involves a comic artist working for a gallerist.
Do we want to give an entire percentage point from the growth of our domestic demand to our beggar-thy-neighbor trade partners?
I thought of going there to stay, a beggar girl, leaving my father alone and my mother's gold forever in our neighbors' houses.
It's not unlike the 1930s when you had beggar thy neighbor competitive appreciations, where one nation after another devalued currency against trading partners.
Those beggar-thy-neighbor strategies have pushed U.S. manufacturing into recession—employment in export-focused durable goods manufacturing is down 22019,000 since June.
Renton now has a jet-setting career as a DJ manager, Begbie a successful artist, Sick Boy a pimp, and Spud a beggar.
"This is what makes Puerto Rico a beggar," said Edwin Meléndez, the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
When he was short on cash, he would sit at a traffic signal, like a beggar, the hem of his shirt stretched out.
But Vietnamese art experts said the painting was actually an uninspired copy of "The Young Beggar," by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
It upends the traditional image of Porgy, a disabled beggar, and the woman he loves, Bess, who has suffered from abuse and addiction.
For example, she was giving her school lunch for one year to the beggar who was seating at the doorstep of the school.
For example "Beggar" (2016), a series of nine, large, black woodblock prints, offers simple iterations of a hooded kneeling figure with arms outstretched.
Mr. Maduro, seeing the aid as undermining his authority, had declared that his country was not a beggar and did not need it.
Over the past six years he has released music for labels such as Warp, 1080p, INgrooves and Kinky Beggar, not to mention Slow Release.
Mehak, a trans beggar, faces violence in male shelters and is refused entry to female ones, so she sleeps in a park each night.
Bourached and Cann also looked behind Picasso's "The Crouching Beggar" and reimagined a mountainous landscape that art historians believe was painted by Santiago Rusiñol.
Both die, and the beggar goes to Heaven, "carried by angels to the bosom of Abraham," while the rich man is damned to burn.
A trip abroad may be the first time they've seen a child beggar or someone who has lost a limb to a land mine.
Thus, global trade, currency and geopolitical trends are increasingly starting to resemble the beggar-thy-neighbor policies and raw geopolitical competition of the 1930s.
The main intersection in Gulshan has been declared a "beggar-free" zone, in a kind of sanitizing of the visible signs of extreme poverty.
In my humiliation, I received the faith a second time, as a warm coat given to a shabby beggar on a cold winter's day.
But Britain remains one of Europe's most alluring countries in tax terms, offering numerous benefits to multinationals that others view as beggar-thy-neighbour policies.
Act II is blighted by a crippled beggar who turns out not to be a cripple, yet reappears later with crutches after Tybalt has died.
If not, we should brace ourselves for some rough sledding in the global economy as the U.S. and Germany drift toward beggar-my-neighbor policies.
Trump's come a long way from the dark days of the early 1990s, when he flirted with insolvency and in a now oft-cited anecdote from "The Art of the Comeback" wrote that while walking down the street with Marla Maples (Trump's second ex-wife), they passed a beggar on Fifth Avenue and Trump told Maples the beggar was worth $900 million more than Trump was.
But it makes less sense when it comes to Arya, unless the show simply thinks that her being a beggar is a dead-end for stories.
Students of Jewish jokes have certainly revealed dark sides to Mr and Mrs Goldberg, their long-suffering rabbi and the implausibly articulate beggar at their door.
Almost finally, let's get back to the House of Black and White, where no-longer-a-beggar Arya Stark is back in full-on training mode.
A rush to adopt "beggar thy neighbor" policies would hurt Chinese exporters, trigger fresh concerns about growth, and heap more pressure on the yuan, he said.
She found another eyewitness, a one-legged beggar called Toto, who was still working outside La Cloche, the restaurant where Bultemeier had eaten his last meal.
Thousands crowd every day down the narrow, beggar-lined passageway that runs alongside the baoli on their way to strewing rose petals on the holy man's tomb.
As always, Washington will have to do the heavy lifting for those beggar-thy-neighbor countries — only to be perversely criticized for violating the multilateral trading system.
"I am merely a thankful beggar and don't want to overstep my bounds in asking," he wrote to an associate in regards to a lavish Caribbean getaway.
Then she squatted to speak with a beggar, an older man in a satiny white robe sitting on a bridge over a dry riverbed covered with garbage.
Yet another consequence of a rising dollar could very well be to heighten the risks of the spread of beggar-thy-neighbor trade policies around the globe.
No pontiff had ever paid such a tribute to the rich, 12th century man who gave his wealth to the poor and became a beggar for Christ.
So did every other country in the region, as a kind of beggar-thy-neighbor policy took hold, with each country shunting asylum seekers onto the next.
Chance of death: 5.88% This week's award for Most Dramatic Reversal of Fortune goes to Arya Stark, who went from blind beggar to badass in just one week.
Chance of death: 7.69% This week's award for Most Dramatic Reversal of Fortune goes to Arya Stark, who went from blind beggar to badass in just one week.
About 20 states had adopted the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, which carries a penalty of detention of three to 10 years in so-called beggar homes.
One special early ep both presented the Loch Ness Monster as a beggar in need of "tree fiddy" (+2) and gifted the world with the word "derp"(+6).
Even still, it is remarkable how long Trump has carried this image of himself as a beggar at the feast, a working-class stiff gatecrashing the country club.
This is what occurred with the infamous Smoot-Hawley Act of increased U.S. import tariffs in the 1930s as the world economy drifted to beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
This makes it all the more difficult to understand why the administration now chooses to risk taking us back to the beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the 1930s.
She goes to her stepdaughter in disguise, as an old beggar crone, to offer Snow White objects that seem helpful or nourishing: a corset, a comb, an apple.
Over 700 million Chinese users can pay each other, whether for online, offline, loan, or gift, whether to your child, a farmer in a village, or even a beggar.
Francis gave Macron a medallion depicting Martin of Tours, a 4th century saint who is depicted cutting his cloak in half to give it to a beggar in winter.
Lew fired back that he saw no "disorderly" moves in the market that might justify intervention, and said it was vital to avoid "beggar-thy-neighbour exchange rate policies".
These are export-driven growth strategies also known under a less flattering name of "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies, because the countries pursuing such objectives live off their trade partners.
A trade policy approach not grounded in economics and seemingly oblivious to the disastrous experience with beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the 1930s is reason enough for serious concern.
It means the notion that American prosperity would be well served by a return to a Smoot-Hawley world of punitive tariffs and other beggar-thy-neighbor economic policies.
Verhoeven's project shows that most people "would rather transfer money to a trustworthy organization than give it to just any beggar we encounter," reflecting our "institutionalized compassion," he said.
She said that opposition to expanding the bottle bill reminded her of the biblical tale of Lazarus, the beggar who is sent away hungry from the rich man's feast.
Shakespeare's drama is bound to make student-actors think, since—as Ms Brock puts it—he asks them "to be both beggar and king, to be tyrant and victim".
As such, though he ought to be able to find common ground with Greg as another (relative) beggar at the feast, Greg also constitutes a threat to his position.
After dealing with an aggressive beggar in a Brixton coffee shop recently, they handed the case over to the local police to avoid being tied up in court for days.
They allege that Mr Trudeau is trying to "beggar the west" just like his father Pierre, a prime minister who in 1980 proposed a plan to hold down oil prices.
Since Asian currencies are already weakening on their own, there may be less official central bank intervention and competitive "beggar thy neighbor" policies, which end up hurting growth and trade.
Rajan has stated India will not follow other countries and devalue its currency, a view endorsed on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who ruled out 'beggar thy neighbor' policies.
The tweet Trump actually reposted from the user, however, was a photoshopped image of the GOP front-runner's opponent Jeb Bush, depicting him as a disheveled beggar outside Trump Tower.
In addition, the nationalistic element of populism creates the potential for 1930s-style beggar-thy-neighbour policies – one thinks of Donald Trump's musings on a 45% tariff on Chinese goods.
The 1902 painting La Misereuse Accroupie (The Crouching Beggar) analyzed by a team of researchers from U.S. and Canada revealed Picasso painted over a landscape portrait by an unknown artist.
Anyone doubting how damaging a return to beggar-thy-neighbor policies to investor confidence could be need only recall our unfortunate experience with the Smoot-Hawley Act in the 1930s.
A mark on his immigration papers suggests that he was taken aside for additional questioning, something McClure says was unusual; immigration officers probably feared he would be a destitute beggar.
The G20 finance ministers however played down talk of beggar-thy-neighbor policies and agreed to inform each other in advance about policy decisions that could lead to currency devaluation.
But if the chaotic arrivals and states' beggar-thy-neighbor responses continue, together with backsliding on human rights commitments, they will eventually impose even greater political, social and economic costs.
Get a smart economic diplomacy by following World Trade Organization- and International Monetary Fund-compatible principles of fair and reciprocal trade to correct systematic (beggar-thy-neighbor) and excessive trade imbalances.
It is one thing to know that a billion dollars is one thousand million dollars, but what a number that size actually represents does not just beggar belief; it defies understanding.
"Bess, you is my woman now," the disabled beggar and unlikely hero of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" sings when he realizes that, somehow, Bess — desirable, though troubled — may actually love him.
Galley Beggar won my heart back in 2015 with their paisley-splashed third album, Silence & Tears, and the British folk rock troubadours haven't let me down on its successor, Heathen Hymns.
With the G20 major economies warning against competitive devaluations, however, many market players expect Japan to refrain from currency intervention for fear of being criticized as adopting a "beggar-thy-neighbor" policy.
Yet, after six decades and tens of billions of dollars in aid and loans from the U.S. and other Western countries, Africa remains a "beggar continent" hopelessly addicted to handouts and alms.
Topping the lots were works by Rembrandt van Rijn, including an etching of "Pieter Haaring" (2616), which went for $2500,22, and "A Beggar Seated on a Bank" (2071), which went for $2868,21820.
Topping the lots were works by Rembrandt van Rijn, including an etching of "Pieter Haaring" (1655), which went for $81,19282, and "A Beggar Seated on a Bank" (22019), which went for $19283,22019.
There are plenty of legitimate instruments (not trade-war bazookas) and agreed international trade rules to prevent beggar-thy-neighbor policies, unfair practices and to enhance the competitive standing of U.S. businesses.
When Lear startlingly sees himself in a half-naked beggar (Sean Carvajal as the disguised Edgar) on the heath, Ms. Jackson's wondering, wounded expression suggests an epiphany that's both glorious and damning.
And China's economy now is so cashless that many women no longer carry purses or men wallets — just a cellphone with mobile apps — to buy anything, or even donate to a beggar.
In "The Beggar Maid," Alice Munro tracks the evolution of a pair of women tied to Hanratty, Ontario: Flo's narrow views remain unchanged while her stepdaughter Rose's experiences in the world expand.
"I want to contribute in the development of my community, but at the same time I don't want to be a beggar in about 10 or 15 years from now," he said.
A scene where Buchanan, alone in his dressing room, schemes with Gollum-like multifariousness as himself, a cockney beggar, and Hamlet, could be Grant's showreel for the next stage of his career.
In doing so, Washington would show that it is seeking relief from mercantilist, beggar-thy-neighbor trade policies rather than intentionally destroying the "multilateral system of free trade," which, incidentally, does not exist.
Men laughed at her once too, when she was a beggar queen being bought and sold like a horse; they laughed at Cersei as they forced her to walk through the streets naked.
"It is virtually impossible for meaningful economic activity to occur outside the charmed circle of the politically protected," wrote Ricardo Soares de Oliveira in "Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War".
"At a time of slow and uneven global growth, avoiding beggar-thy-neighbor exchange rate policies is particularly important," Lew said in a statement to the International Monetary Fund's steering committee on Saturday.
This is especially the case insofar as those actions might negatively impact both the U.S. and the global economic recoveries by returning the world to the "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies of the 1930s.
"We must refrain from seeking dominance and reject the zero-sum game, we must refrain from 'beggar thy neighbor' and reject power politics or hegemony while the strong bully the weak," Xi said.
MONROVIA, Liberia — On the first day that Archel Bernard opened her spanking-new high-fashion-with-a-Liberian-twist factory, some guy pretending to be a deaf beggar came in and stole her iPhone.
Citizens are so consumed by pleasure-seeking that they beggar the economy; so hostile to authority that they ignore the advice of experts; and so committed to liberty that they lose any common purpose.
When Dany asks Yara to give up the inhumane traditions of her culture (in this case, pillaging and raping), she doesn't refuse and hurl insults such as "beggar queen," like the slave masters did.
"People exaggerate over jokes in the street on a beggar, when surely if it's done to a normal person they wouldn't say anything," ReSet said in a follow-up video, because he's the worst.
Leaders of the left and right have been all too ready to ignore the fiscal future when it suits their purposes, but the American people can no longer afford such beggar-thy-future schemes.
The steel markets are a textbook example of how a race of national subsidies, resulting overcapacities and protectionist measures can drive the international community into a beggar-thy-neighbor situation in which everybody loses.
Time and time again, the pattern is the same — America seems to be afraid to take on dictators, theocratic regimes, partners who take advantage of us and countries with beggar-thy-neighbor economic policies.
When, at the urging of Minerva, he disguised himself as a beggar to make his way back home, he encountered an endearing, gawky old shepherd, trusting by nature but a little out of it.
Trade-related disputes with Japan and Germany helped precipitate the Crash of '87, while the 13s Smoot-Hawley tariffs triggered "beggar-thy-neighbor" trade polices and turned a great recession into The Great Depression.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday led an Easter vigil service, baptizing eight adults, including a formerly undocumented Nigerian migrant beggar who became a hero when he disarmed an Italian thief wielding a cleaver.
Some economists of the period, such as Joan Robinson of the University of Cambridge, argued that the recovering countries were doing so primarily through "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies of undercutting other nations in export markets.
Despite his experience at Oracle, Benioff said in 2018 that he "had to go hat in hand, like I was a high tech beggar, down to Silicon Valley to raise some money" when launching Salesforce.
People can't see through the shabby, patchy clothes, or the shoes with holes, and when they look at my untidy hair, they curl their lips scornfully and move away as if I were a beggar.
Then she floats past the one-legged beggar perched on the Fleur des Îles steps and climbs into an odd-looking customized dune buggy, where a bald middle-aged Frenchman sits beeping the horn impatiently.
It's hard to tell good stories, funny or not, about someone who already comes across as the stuff of bad art — who would beggar belief if he were an author's creation, too easy and too broad.
"We are not trying to break away from the European Union but the bloc should fulfill its responsibilities (to Turkey)," Erdogan told the news conference, saying the bloc should not view his country "like a beggar".
"With the U.S. proceeding at full throttle with its beggar-thy-neighbor policy, China has no choice but to fight back to protect its core national and economic interests," it said in an editorial on Saturday.
Inept economic management is one of the possibilities, but the experience shows that they just want to hitch a free ride on the "locomotive U.S.A." That's called beggar-thy-neighbor mercantilism of export-driven growth economies.
"If you watch the news today, every homeless person is either on spice (a drug) or a beggar," said James, a former rough sleeping coordinator for Westminster City Council, flicking his dreadlock ponytail over his shoulder.
The official said it was important that G7 and G20 countries adhere to their commitment to refrain from "beggar-thy-neighbor" currency policies so countries would instead pursue monetary, fiscal and structural steps to boost growth.
The country is run by a caretaker government desperately looking for coalition partners in exploratory talks, where there have never been any publicly available reports of discussions concerning Germany's excessive, literally beggar-thy-neighbor, trade surpluses.
While his critics have compared him to a low-class beggar or street performer, Mr. Li says he is no different from traditional Chinese opera singers, who in ancient times competed vigorously for money and attention.
What they're saying: "These types of beggar-thy-neighbor policies were a hallmark of the Great Depression and caused a much larger economic downturn in its aftermath," said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at consulting firm RSM.
And there's nothing more breathtaking than the second half of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief," a song that earns its mouthful of a title with two minutes of Bond-worthy brilliance.
The absurd corollaries to ignoring IMF rules are the accusations of trade protectionism that come whenever Washington denounces the inappropriate, beggar-thy-neighbor, economic and trade policies of surplus countries that refuse to balance their trade accounts.
According to a legend paraphrased in a RocketNews24 article, a regent and politician of the Asuka period named Prince Shotoku once came across a Buddhist monk in Oji named Daruma who was pretending to be a beggar.
Mr. Karpichkov told the British television show "Good Morning Britain" this week that he had powder thrown in his face by someone "dressed as a common beggar" on a busy street in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Barefoot, a bucket under one arm, Senegalese child beggar Mamadou dodges cars, taxis and buses on the chaotic streets of Dakar as he searches for his parents in the hope of going home.
"I am merely a thankful beggar and don't want to overstep my bounds in asking … but we will gladly go," Mr. Williams wrote in a text message, which the indictment said referred to one of the trips.
With its systematic half-a-trillion dollars of quasi structural trade deficits, the U.S. accounts for 40 percent of the world's total (trade deficits) and bears the brunt of what some would call beggar-thy-neighbor trade policies.
Christie's Modern British Art day auction on June 18 sold £5,802,625 (~$7,371,828) worth of art, with two works by Frank Bowling topping the lots: "Beggar No. 20183" (1963) for £695,250 (~$883,266) and "Self-portrait" (1959) for £443,250 (~$563,19633).
The former IMF economist, tipped by local media as a potential successor to Lagarde, also called on the Fund to take a lead role in ensuring policies adopted by its members do not have "beggar-thy-neighbor" consequences.
They said he came in disguise as a beggar or a peddler, bummed free meals off his unsuspecting white hosts, snooped around to find out what slavery was like, and told the slaves they would soon be free.
The U.S. Treasury official said it was important that G7 and G20 countries adhere to their commitment to refrain from "beggar-thy-neighbor" currency policies so countries would instead pursue monetary, fiscal and structural steps to boost growth.
Regarding your article on Yemen ("Beggar thy neighbour", March 25th), I want to make it clear that Saudi Arabia is leading an international coalition, with the full backing of the UN Security Council, to restore the country's legitimate government.
So, to wrap it up, the point here is not bringing the dollar down, but having a world currency view which is stable and to stop -- I mean, in the old days, we called it beggar thy neighbor. Right?
"  Evenett noted that a sustained exchange rate depreciation by China won't go unnoticed during a US presidential election year, adding: "The more Beijing resorts to steps branded beggar-thy-neighbor the higher the likelihood of a backlash from abroad.
Of the more socially engaged works in the exhibition, Ahmed Al Ansari's "The Beggar" (1979), a work executed in pastel on canvas, illustrates in profile a rather taboo subject within the oil rich GCC country: poverty and its malcontents.
"Beggar" (1926) focuses on an elderly man's quizzical gaze and serene dignity while foregrounding the dispossessed man's contiguous space: the sooty pavement on which he sits; the iron gate looming behind him; and the brickwork pillars boxing him in.
That, in turn, would raise the specter of retaliation by our main trade partners and a generalized return to beggar-my-neighbor policies that have in the past proved to be so destructive to U.S. and international economic prosperity.
"Beggar Boy," which like all but one of the stories takes place in Nepal, where Upadhyay was born and raised, centers on an affluent teenager named Ramesh whose mother has left him (and his father) for a new family.
The homeless still camp out there—in greater numbers, even, than back in '92—but whereas Foster regarded the beggar who approached him as yet another freeloader to be scolded, my heart has only softened for these folks over the years.
By contrast, the U.S. is branded a culprit because it is trying to fight such beggar-thy-neighbor policies in a — so far — unsuccessful attempt to reduce its large trade deficits and put an end to its soaring net foreign debt.
Learning from the disastrous consequences of "beggar thy neighbor" trade protectionism, the U.S. took the leading role after World War II to  create a rules-based global trading system, which has evolved into the WTO, and is its greatest beneficiary.
EU "hard liners" were cautioned that if they succeeded in the talks, the UK could respond with "beggar thy neighbor" tax and industrial policies "that would attract the world's best companies and biggest investors", at the expense of Britain's EU counterparts.
This includes billions paid to some of the world's most well-financed corporations: The ultimate solution to these beggar-thy-neighbor policies is to limit the ability of corporations to demand large subsidies from cities and states in exchange for investment.
King was succeeded in 2013 by Mark Carney, who on Friday warned that moves by central banks to cut interest rates below zero risked creating a "beggar-thy-neighbor" environment which could leave the global economy trapped in low growth.
At a time when the Trump administration appears to be taking the world down the route to destructive beggar-my-neighbor trade policies, the IMF is proposing global policy coordination to resolve the trade imbalance problem in a constructive manner.
McLean, oblivious to the Marquis of Queensberry rules, or the looming figure of the referee in black tie, punched Shaw as he was on the ground with a right-handed haymaker worthy of a pub brawl at the Blind Beggar.
For example, when a beggar woman asks Christian for a sandwich, she tells him rudely "no onions," to which he responds by ordering and paying for the sandwich and then tossing it at her telling her to pick off the onions herself.
It is doing so despite warnings that such action is bound to provoke retaliation by the U.S. trade partners that could be harmful to U.S. exporters, and that could take us down the road to the beggar-my-neighbor policies of the past.
The post-9/11 U.S. bombing campaign was winding down, and Bronstein pointed her camera at people fleeing war: a boy walking his three donkeys past rows of refugee tents, a man desperately clutching a bag of rice, a beggar missing his left leg.
With a record $13.7 trillion in overseas sovereign debt carrying negative interest rates, there is scant room for the world to do more to stimulate a global economy further weakened by an intensifying trade war … save for further, beggar-thy-neighbor, competitive, currency devaluations.
Mark Gilbert, the Bloomberg columnist, phrased it nicely So the current detente is holding: the U.S. doesn't raise interest rates, China doesn't devalue the yuan, and the rest of the world stops trying to goose growth and exports with beggar-thy-neighbour currency weakening.
A gross but compelling painting by the Orientalist painter Léopold de Moulignon, from 1860, features a (presumably imagined) Algerian beggar kneeling in the street, drawing a gray-green veil across the side of her face — and bearing her ample breast to her suckling child.
He has acquired the clothing of a beggar around his own age, and taken to wearing the outfit, foul-smelling, tattered, not only to go out into the world but sometimes to soothe himself privately with this costumed confirmation of the unworthiness he fears.
Merkel refused to former President Barack Obama to even consider such a thing, and official international organizations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund have never asked Germany to lay off its totally inappropriate beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
His mother had once read him a story about a prince who forgot who he was and became a poor, flea-infested beggar for the rest of his life, and he'd cried and cried in his mother's arms, just as he was crying now.
However, in a blog published Wednesday, IMF senior economists Gita Gopinath, Luis Cubeddu and Gustavo Adler warned that the recent surge in monetary easing from both advanced and emerging market economies has created concerns over so-called "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies and fears of a currency war.
I'm exaggerating slightly, but outside of a scene with Tyrion and Varys striding around Meereen (in which a beggar woman is prominently featured), every other storyline in the episode was either directly centered on a woman who stood up to have her revenge or tangentially about that.
"These recent moves are consistent with a rising understanding of international spill-overs and spill-backs, as well as with a new assessment of which policies are more akin to beggar-thy-neighbor policies than others," says Martin Enlund, head of currency strategy at Swedish bank Nordea.
And yet there is something about this old beggar, and the endlessly looping tune he cranks out, that fascinates the narrator of this bleak cycle — so much so that the narrator is ready to join him in what promises to be permanent exile, or perhaps death.
It was discovered to the east of the city's financial district, occupying a sixth of a mile of sewer under Whitechapel Road, between one of London's largest mosques and a pub called the Blind Beggar, where walking tours are taken to reminisce about a notorious gangland murder.
While President Barack Obama argued that the United Nations Green Climate Fund — a financial institution to help poorer nations combat the effects of climate change — would benefit the world, Mr. Trump argued that the American donations to the fund, which he halted, would beggar the country.
If the camera tilts, it's not for arty effect but to squeeze in the relevant details of, say, a group of women bustling forward between a beggar in a wheelchair and a small group of people standing or sitting at a curb—three rhythms in flashing counterpoint.
But hold the champagne, or the German "Sekt," because Germans have always steadfastly refused to change their export-driven growth model — less charitably defined as a "beggar-thy-neighbor" policy that should have no quarters in a grand project of the European economic and political union.
Macron is the apostle of "profound transformation" – necessary, he argues, if the Union's motor is not to stall, causing it to slide back into a mere collection of states with trade agreements and some cooperation, but guarding their sovereignty and descending into beggar-my-neighbor policies.
Abdalla Al Omari's "The Vulnerability Series" includes paintings of U.S. President Donald Trump as a bedraggled refugee with a sleeping child in his arms, Russian President Vladimir Putin as a beggar, as well as former British Prime Minister David Cameron and former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Some chutzpah indeed from a beggar-thy-neighbor country with a virtually dead economy, a nearly 2% of GDP budget surplus and by far the world's largest trade surplus of $290 billion — a textbook case of an economy that should vigorously expand its demand management policy.
Yet iron ore prices slumped on the news of Trump's tariffs, not because of the expected immediate impact on demand, but rather on the concern that the U.S. government is prepared to wage a beggar-thy-neighbour trade war than runs the risk of sparking the next global recession.
"If the U.S. carries through with its threats not to heed WTO rulings, it will encourage other countries to defect from the international free-trade regime and increase the risks of beggar-thy-neighbor policies," said Marc Chandler, global currency strategy head at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.
Yet iron ore prices slumped on the news of Trump's tariffs, not because of the expected immediate impact on demand, but rather on the concern that the U.S. government is prepared to wage a beggar-thy-neighbor trade war than runs the risk of sparking the next global recession.
Courbet — Nochlin's enduring hero, whom she once called with some justification "the Mick Jagger of the 19th century" — concentrated on rural poverty, whether in his now-lost "The Stonebreakers" or his giant "The Painter's Studio," which features an Irish beggar woman slumped beside Courbet's painting-in-the-painting.
"I think that's a very, very dangerous path to go down, this beggar-thy-neighbor mutual currency devaluation, and it is not in our interest and it is not in the mandate of the Fed to pursue it," Toomey said to Shelton during a nearly two-hour hearing.
This nearly universal beggar-thy-neighbor behavior has all the makings of a very serious global economic disruption and proceeds from the same global economic imbalances that we saw before, during and after the Great Recession; the vast oversupply of labor, production and capital relative to aggregate demand for all three.
The area was full of tough fighting men in the Krays' youth, be they the upstanding kind who fought at the legendary York Hall venue, or the less coordinated sort who brawled in the pubs of East London: at the Marquis of Cornwallis, the Carpenters Arms, and indeed the Blind Beggar.
This landmark 1935 opera, based on a novel and a subsequent play, is set in the fictional African-American community of Catfish Row in Charleston, S.C. It is the love story of a beggar with a disability and a drug-addicted woman in an impoverished community, struggling with violence and racism.
A progressive China trade policy should not shy away from targeting specific "beggar thy neighbor" actions by China or any other trading partner, including dumping specific goods below cost to capture market share or artificially depressing the value of their currency (a recent, bipartisan bill could help realign manipulated currency values).
A U.S. administration that increasingly views "fair trade" as "equal trade" and not "free trade," will need a weak dollar policy via the old tried and true method of "beggar-thy-neighbor" currency devaluation if it hopes to achieve a significant improvement in the trade balance over the near term.
Japan, for its part, will have to make adjustments in order to fully deploy the manufacturing of final products and spare parts in the U.S. If properly managed, Washington has a unique chance to rid the world of excessive trade imbalances and beggar-thy-neighbor policies of deeply entrenched export-driven growth models.
And I think that monetary policy after all at least in the US is not supposed to worry about exchange rates and you really don't want to get into a beggar thy neighbour policy where all central banks try to catch up with the first one to the lowest rate and do that.
Okubo noted that the BOJ's policy to weaken the yen was defensible back in 2012, when the yen was at nosebleed levels of a mere 80 to the U.S. dollar, but he added that continuing to guide the yen lower looked like a "beggar thy neighbour" currency policy to make Japan's exports more attractive.
MARTIN HOFFMAN, NEW YORK To the Editor: In his lovely article about why he gives money and/or food to people who beg on the subways, Rick Hamlin says the spiel a subway beggar may give for needing money or food is surely "a fiction," and he goes on to speculate why, nonetheless, he gives.
That we are living through a time of political turmoil is, in no small part, because of what we learned after the banking crisis of 2008: The rich beggar all our imaginings, both in what they earn and own, and in what they consider their unique entitlement to go on earning and owning more.
As penance, he becomes an itinerant beggar, until one day he enters a study hall and hears two porters learnedly debating a point of law; when one of them finds a copy of the rabbi's book on the shelf and uses it to prove an argument, the rabbi is finally vindicated in his own eyes.
One zone situates you in the caves of the naldjorpas — reclusive monks and magic practitioners — who were the subject of interest of explorer and esotericist Alexandra David Neél, who met with the 13th Dalai Lama in Kalimpong in 1912 and would later gain notoriety for disguising herself as a beggar to travel to the forbidden region of Lhasa.
It's up to us to take a long-term, truly global view, and develop a strategy by which deficit nations can address their fiscal problems, attack inequality by boosting the incomes of the working and middle classes, and establish a world order where surplus nations can no longer use "beggar my neighbor" policies to export unemployment to deficit nations.
As Genie, Robin Williams' voice work-only performance here is one of his best, as his brand of manic humor is a perfect fit for this classic Disney adventure about our titular hero's journey from beggar and thief to hero, as he falls for Princess Jasmine and must save her from the love-to-hate baddie Jafar.
If that novelist had also set the story just before Christmas, included scenes where one of the protagonists starts weeping during a phone call and brought events to a neat conclusion almost exactly 24 hours after they started … well, I guess I'd say it isn't exactly the kind of thing that Galley Beggar Press likes to publish.
There's this idea that you show that you're a nice elite person by being charitable to the poor, or by letting the poor into your house, but in the Odyssey there's a beggar who is poor all his life, and the right thing to do in that instance is to beat him up and humiliate him.
For as much as I've enjoyed seeing Arya's journey toward becoming a Faceless Man, we've really only had two scenes and a montage with her so far this season, and they've taken her from blind beggar girl to kick-ass assassin-to-be, mostly via the kind of training montage that's often derided as a hacky storytelling device.
"I had to go hat in hand, like I was a high tech beggar, down to Silicon Valley to raise some money…And as I go from venture capitalist to venture capitalist to venture capitalist — and a lot of them are my friends, people I've gone to lunch with — and each and every one of them said no," Benioff said.
The idea that members of the G-7 can gang up on the president of the most powerful nation in the world — which, in fact, still subsidizes and provides security guarantees to each of them — and then individual members can use social media to send a virtue-signaling message at Washington's expense isn't simply galling, it is so shortsighted as to beggar belief.
Hewing to the request of the Gershwin estate to cast the opera with black singers, this production features the stalwart baritone Eric Greene as the disabled, utterly decent beggar Porgy, and the richly expressive soprano Nicole Cabell as Bess, a glamorous but troubled woman who struggles to break free of an abusive relationship with Crown, a cocky stevedore, fiercely performed by the youthful baritone Nmon Ford.
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Victory now includes things we had never imagined five years ago: to not mourn the death of yet another friend; to take a Syrian beggar child off a Turkish, Lebanese or Jordanian street and send her back to school; to end the forced starvation of Syrians living under siege; to root for our Olympic swimmer who swam across the Aegean and now competes not as a Syrian but as a refugee.
A shocking social document at the time, Gin Lane showed a tableau of deprivation: a baby dangles from a railing while the mother sits in a drunken stupor; a beggar and his dog hungrily fight over a bone; brawling breaks out over the street and a dead body is stripped of valuables; a pawnbroker does a roaring trade as people swap their goods for money to buy more gin.
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door" (1821), of a beggar sprawled on the pavement before a bakery, pointing out his crumpled top hat as a symbol of prior prosperity now lost, "his once sturdy shoes now display holes," and the dog with its paw on his knee a deliberate tug on the heartstrings of the viewer, "positioned as the only living creature to care about his master.

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