Social Insurance Number

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Canadian a nine-digit number used by the federal government to identify a citizen

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social heritage, social housing, social inclusion, social inquiry report, social insurance, Social Insurance Number, social intelligence, socialism, social isolation, socialist, socialistic

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How to use Social Insurance Number in a sentence

His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
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“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.
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The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
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He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.
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Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
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We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
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