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    Use "wherewithal" in a sentence

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    wherewithal


    1. The Kassikan obviously has the wherewithal to observe that asteroid, there were many other observatories on the planet that had published reports on their data network


    2. Ken was nursing a dull head and an urgent desire for sugary drinks, but lacking the wherewithal to solve either problem he did his best to bury himself in the nutritional information on the back of the cereal packet


    3. she was so terribly happy that she’d found a man who loved her and when it all went pear-shaped, she hadn't the wherewithal to deal with the situation at all, not to mention the shame she clearly felt … and not only for the abortion


    4. but lacking the wherewithal to solve either problem he did his best


    5. This occupation has brought my family the wherewithal to be quite comfortable, and afford many experiences which others, less fortunate, might therefore go without


    6. The mother-to-be simply shook her head and said that the house had been the only inheritance from her deceased Aunt, and had not been renovated before her death, nor had they the wherewithal as yet to make the modifications


    7. No doubt if he'd had the wherewithal to afford quartering his own animals at home, he would have done so


    8. It seldom happens that the person who tills the ground has wherewithal to maintain himself till he reaps the harvest


    9. All taxes having been usually paid in paper money, the prince would not have wherewithal either to pay his troops, or to furnish his magazines; and the state of the country would be much more irretrievable than if the greater part of its circulation had consisted in gold and silver


    10. Every such nation, therefore, must endeavour, in time of peace, to accumulate gold and silver, that when occasion requires, it may have wherewithal to carry on foreign wars

    11. A country that has wherewithal to buy wine, will always get the wine which it has occasion for ; and a country that has wherewithal to buy gold and silver, will never be in want of those metals


    12. Those metals, when the Spartans had got wherewithal to purchase them, broke through all the barriers which the laws of Lycurgus opposed to their entrance into Lacedaemon


    13. If, not withstanding all this, gold and silver should at any time fall short in a country which has wherewithal to purchase them, there are more expedients for supplying their place, than that of almost any other commodity


    14. Money, like wine, must always be scarce with those who have neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it


    15. Sober men, whose projects have been disproportioned to their capitals, are as likely to have neither wherewithal to buy money, nor credit to borrow it, as prodigals, whose expense has been disproportioned to their revenue


    16. The nation which, from the annual produce of its domestic industry, from the annual revenue arising out of its lands, and labour, and consumable stock, has wherewithal to purchase those consumable goods in distant countries, can maintain foreign wars there


    17. Few people wanted money who had wherewithal to pay for it


    18. Many people wanted it, who had neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it ; and because the debtors found it difficult to borrow, the creditors found it difficult to get payment


    19. The English in those days had nothing wherewithal to purchase the pay and provisions of their armies in foreign countries, but either the rude produce of the soil, of which no considerable part could be spared from the home consumption, or a few manufactures of the coarsest kind, of which, as well as of the rude produce, the transportation was too expensive


    20. As a country which has wherewithal to buy tobacco will never be long in want of it, so neither will one be long in want of gold and silver which has wherewithal to purchase those metals

    21. establishments, were to be remitted to Great Britain in gold and silver, the colonies have abundantly wherewithal to purchase the requisite quantity of those metals


    22. I really do believe Boots had the charm and wherewithal to find a new home for himself


    23. Many of those left behind possessed neither the (financial) nor (political) wherewithal to preserve the integrity of their communities


    24. Colling guessed that the Countess was not only appreciative of the arts, but had the wherewithal to indulge her tastes


    25. Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it


    26. Decades later, I marvel at the fledgling whipper-snapper who had the wherewithal and


    27. these twenty-four hours—to create this magnum opus, is to make available to me (when I flitz into you) the wherewithal to escape from your head


    28. the wherewithal to do exactly that


    29. of their position is that the content of knowledge is the practical wherewithal for control


    30. choice of goals as well as the choice of the wherewithal or instrumentality to achieve such goals

    31. wherewithal to determine the authenticity of whatever you are focusing on – and


    32. If you have the time, and the wherewithal to sustain the study, then looking at


    33. “Who else is extremely organized, runs in packs, and has the financial wherewithal of a group to fund an operation like this?”


    34. wherewithal to succeed at Harvard, but did he have the pa-


    35. Now I sit in a sphere of economic adjustment and no wherewithal to


    36. of my life and that I had within me the wherewithal to direct my life,


    37. leaders were captives of the gods of imagination, they were absorbed by the desperate culture, and hadn’t the wherewithal to distance themselves from their own fantasy


    38. Churches, if they have the economic wherewithal, form


    39. With our level of security and wherewithal,


    40. trays of incumbents too busy lunching or without the wherewithal to

    41. The rouge wrote that she wants a lover to satiate her lust, the wherewithal of whom she had ditched could be heard from the horse’s mouth, besides a husband to cater to her monetary greed


    42. Stretching their physical and mental wherewithal, they soared from


    43. But unlike Muhammad, who provided for his faithful of Medina with the ‘spoils of war’, Jinnah was handicapped to prop up Pakistan for Islam has no wherewithal for nation building, intellectually speaking that is


    44. There was an elderly woman, in the twilight of her years, who lacked the wherewithal to provide any of life’s pleasures, or even necessities, because she was destitute: she had no money, no prestige in society, and any beauty she might have had was long gone


    45. Anyone that failed to practice good hygiene, to the extent that the wherewithal to achieve cleanliness existed, was also to be let go


    46. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you" (Matthew:6:31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?, 33, New American Standard Bible)


    47. Bless, Lord, our substance, and accept the work of our hands; and give us wherewithal to provide for our own, even for those of our own house; and to leave an inheritance, as far as is just, to our childrens children


    48. every difficulty carries with it the wherewithal for its overcoming


    49. WHEREWITHAL shall a young man cleanse his way?


    50. Unfortunately for his instructors, Panin had the wherewithal to see through the Communist doctrine

































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    "wherewithal" definitions

    the necessary means (especially financial means)