Collocations withpeople
These are words often used in combination withpeople.
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able-bodied people
They faced higher nutritional stress since the bulk of farming had to be done by a limited number of able-bodied people.
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aboriginal people
This led to the significant erosion of the land base available to aboriginal people on which to pursue these traditional activities.
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civilized people
Gain and sustenance represent the value realized from labor among civilized people.
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conquered people
I repeat that my sole concern is for the just administration by our country of a conquered people.
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disabled people
Several of the reports showed how such systems would be invaluable for disabled people.
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educated people
I show that these travelers encountered educated people capable of understanding and answering their visitors'scholarly questions in non-trivial ways.
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elderly people
Most guests were elderly people, who usually stayed for treatment 1-3 weeks.
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hard-working people
They are nice, hard-working people, yet they live in misery, they are told.
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hundreds of people
She gave so much and there are literally hundreds of people worldwide who will remember her with gratitude and affection.
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indigenous people
This has created conflict between upstream and downstream communities, as well as tension among the indigenous people and migrant contract farmers.
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innocent people
Hundreds of innocent people will be unduly victimised.
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intelligent people
There are intelligent people on both sides of the fence.
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like-minded people
The effectiveness of this work was tested by circulation through a community of like-minded people.
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low-income people
In these ways, we included the views of low-income people in diverse situations on a broad range of issues related to health-related services and supports.
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middle-income people
Even many middle-income people are unwilling to raise the roof over this problem.
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nomadic people
His experiences in guiding the first geologists around his desert domain gave him a thorough knowledge of the nomadic people he ruled.
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oppressed people
There must be security for all, including oppressed people and also the 20 000 to 40 000 children who will die of hunger next year.
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ordinary people
More surprisingly, he had little time for the actual experiences of the millions of ordinary people who in our time have been at war.
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poor people
Interestingly, work with ' poor people ' was most popular by the end of the course.
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sane people
He considers these wishes normal and such as would be avowed by many perfectly sane people.
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talented people
The school system is losing talented people, both in teaching and administration, who can function as role models and competent language-teaching models.
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wealthy people
First and foremost, there was a concentration of wealthy people with money to spend.
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well-educated people
The composition of the group had a strong bias towards office holders and relatively well-educated people.
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well-intentioned people
Instead, we want to recruit well-intentioned people who are temperamentally suitable to work with children under supervision.
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well-meaning people
Major issues such as this can easily be decided by a minority of determined but well-meaning people.
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working-class people
The party's overarching ideology rested on the belief that working-class people were entitled to a stable economic foundation.
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young people
Some young people reported having a poor rapport with their treating oncologist.
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