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People who themselves are old by conventional standards, often refer to ' the old folks ', clearly indicating a group to which the speakers do not perceive themselves as belonging.
Second, the fact that folks have remained unmoved by the claims of strong natural law theory does not show that the claims of strong natural law theory are false.
Just because these folks are neuroscientists, their chosen topic must be covered in detail in any book they read, including one written by a social cognitive psychologist?
Inflation—what a blessed word it is for some folks.
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His beer and "baccy" is probably the only thing—with, perhaps, an occasional picture show, or an occasional visit to his old folk's club.
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I hope that they will not be as easily brainwashed as some folks are.
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I remember once breaking the law by suggesting that they should put currants in the poor old folks' bread.
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The critics seem to think it is not good for folks to enjoy entertainment without a compensating dose of culture.
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Most of the children and the old folks are helping.
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I want to repudiate most strongly any suggestion that working folks cannot spend their money wisely and well.
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I need not praise these folks for what they did when they were in work.
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Will we degenerate into referendums on individual topics such as a town hall here and an old folks' home there?
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We cannot tolerate any system which is to class old folks as merely exhausted industrial material.
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I say with the greatest respect that no other section of the community has had the treatment that our old folks have had.
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Are we treating the old folks as they ought to be treated?
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If they have, they will have found that it is definitely hurting the old folks.
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The miners' welfare committee organises the annual children's gala and old folks' meals are served there twice or three times a week.
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The first thing my folks did was to take a chance to get a better and more commodious house.
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If it were so, we should deserve all the criticism which some old folks are so apt to make.
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You will take away a lot of the worry of these old folks; you will give them new life and hope.
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The old folks were bounding about dispensing it.
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They are all less able to maintain their old folks, and possibly other relatives.
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They do not build houses because the folks require houses; it is only incidental that houses are homes.
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Nothing roused the anger of the old folks in this country more than that action.
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The important years were those between 1946 and 1951, when nothing was done to aid these poor old folks.
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However, one asks: what of the old folks?
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I want to see the old folks in my division get a large increase in their pensions.
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The weather has been warm and some folks find it tiring.
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There must be several thousands of these folks living together.
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I am never one of those who want to draw other folks' attention to their own achievement!
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There is no doubt about the genuineness of this old folks' reunion party.
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We are asking for the beef, what little it is, to be conceded to these old folks.
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We could more easily do without the old folks from 80 downwards than the young men of 18 years upwards.
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Local government affairs such as housing, schools, old folk's homes and so on, affect everybody and people should take an interest in them.
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We supply books to old folks' residential homes.
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We are also abolishing the offence of being a common night-walker; that is, being out and about when decent folks are abed.
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Out old folks must be a first charge on our society.
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We will use our discretion during the hours of darkness when we hope folks are asleep.
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Consequently, it is not always easy for local authorities to switch resources from one area—such as children's homes, old folks' homes or sheltered housing—into another.
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There is the question, for instance, of people in old folks' homes and hostels and so forth.
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Is it to be wondered that old folks are very much alive to their grievances and are kicking vigorously?
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Then there is no chance of these folks getting that money which you promised them?
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All the old folks of the village are invited to a treat.
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Surely we do not want old folks to be dependent on begging help from others, as many have to do?
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I beg people who have any influence among working folks to put these economic facts before them, because it is their living.
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I still ask: what was the good democratic reason why these young folks should not make the demonstration they intended to make?
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The great majority of old folks in receipt of pensions went unaided.
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Numerous cases of appalling conditions in private old folks' homes have come to light.
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We visit hospitals and old folks homes, but not sewage works.
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There are a lot of other folks who have suffered as a consequence of his policy.
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They miss the mass of young folks who lead honest and encouraging lives.
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By this means the corporation are able to provide better talent to entertain those folks who are not able to pay anything.
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The old folks are at the bottom end of the social scale whereas their rightful place is much nearer the top.
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There is a feeling of pride among the folks who we are discussing, and rightly so.
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One area where difficulties may emerge is where someone is providing a form of community service in an old folks' home or some similar institution.
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All these things upset and aggravate the old folks.
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I am not asking for some special privilege for the old folks of the country.
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Will he hear further stories from me or from others who can speak for the old folks?
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He has failed to mention the appreciable increase in the price of milk, which is a tonic for the old folks.
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He also mentioned old folks who had become crossing wardens in order to augment their miserable pensions.
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There is no certainty to which borough these folks belong—none whatever.
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I know there are sonic folks who seem to think it is a good thing that we should eat filthy food.
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Shopkeepers have dignity just the same as other folks.
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The old folks are depending upon and appealing for charity after a lifetime of work and service to the nation.
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What about the pensioners and folks on fixed incomes, and those who are already struggling to keep going?
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One of the evils of uncovenanted benefit applies to young folks.
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The care of the elderly cannot be solved just with more old folks' homes.
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Would she consider stepping this up to a more realistic level, which would help the old folks considerably in winter?
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They cannot be taken into old folks' homes because they are too confused, and they cannot go into hospitals because there are insufficient beds.
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I hope that we may continue to consider, as some folks still do in the towns, that it is lucky to touch a sailor.
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The men get married, and it is the older single women who look after the old folks at home.
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There seems to be an assumption that a son gives to the old folks all the money that is allocated to them.
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Of course, war is not good for young folks, it is not good for old folks either.
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In order that you can send old folks to the lethal chamber?
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Our folks do not know what the shelters are.
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We ought to have some intermediary service where we can place these old folks who require constant attention but who are certainly not mentally afflicted.
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Then there are folks living in overcrowded conditions, particularly young people.
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If one of them breaks down, that's it folks—unless a spare stand-by ambulance from another area can be used.
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I work with many folks who wonder when or where this is going to end.
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The drink was passed around by the old folks; the chianti and martini were flowing.
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In this country when one goes into an old folks' home one finds them all tucked up in blankets and waited on with coffee.
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Many of my constituents do voluntary work and in every village there is an old folks centre where they spend a great deal of time.
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I have some more good news, so cheer up, folks.
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Having one's own bathroom is an impossible dream to ordinary folks like me.
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Once their adventurous spirit begins to die down they start to think of home and the folks they have left behind.
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Old folks left behind in accommodation which is not overcrowded by present standards—one bedroom, one sitting room and a kitchenette—cannot get rehoused.
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The plural folks only occurs in a limited number of contexts.
The tragedy is that some folks come here not to teach, but to travel, so they get all romantic and misty eyed.
In addition, and quite naturally, it gives voice to long-silenced speakers and re-creates a sense of how ordinary folks heard contemporary voices.
A whole lot of drunk folks, you know, don't care for nothing, and they just bring eternity, the blues do.
I was surprised to learn that some of your folks were not of any better quality.
I returned to my host stand incredibly grateful that the older folks had demanded to sit elsewhere.
In many instances, women volunteered following the failure of their men folks to constitute the frontline of peaceful action during social protests and riots.
Who is he to begrudge his folks a little romance?
I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n.
Why, we're territory folks - we ort to hang together.
I came to tell the folks at the capital we are genuinely sorry for what happened.
You'll see me then, at last, with other people's eyes: you'll see me just as your daughter does now, as all wholesome folks see women like me.
We learn something new every day, for example, some of the elderly folks have sicknesses and you learn what to do and not to do for them.
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