| 单词 | destitution |
| 例句 | His next known movement was in 1786 when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Holmes even wanted Ned to buy life insurance, for surely once his marital strife subsided, he would want to protect Julia and Pearl from destitution in the event of his death. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A public pregnancy without marriage meant disgrace and destitution. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z My failure, my frustration, my destitution was my own. Once upon a life: Caryl Phillips 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z And though the film lacks a clear narrative arc, put together, these stories draw a line between the historical genocide and displacement suffered by Indigenous people and the present destitution on reservations. ‘Women of the White Buffalo’ Review: Speaking Out on the Reservation 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z He leads an easy-come-easy-go existence that results partly from temperament and partly from destitution; the plot lurches along according to his clashes with the police. Review: In ‘Charlie’s Country,’ a Refugee in His Homeland 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z If we think about them at all, most of us probably imagine that biographers and historians happily toil away in sanctified destitution, untroubled by the cares of this world. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z They were looking for a way to put their faith into action to respond to the destitution they saw all around them. I Quit Buying Things 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Around him is a newly unearthed Roman amphitheater — perfect for the gathering storm of paparazzi — and ahead lie myriad opportunities to rescue his family from destitution. Movie Review: ‘As Luck Would Have It,’ Spanish Film With José Mota 2013-02-03T23:34:11Z Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969 for "writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett manuscript sells at auction 2013-07-10T11:44:24Z Still, you quickly realize that what looks like destitution to the eyes of an American is no more than the natural, if challenging, restrictions of a limited economy. Personal Journeys: Dodging a Holiday in a Remote Mexican Town 2013-12-27T17:34:54Z There are no cruel disparities between rich and poor here; KL has none of the utter destitution that blights the downtowns of Indian cities. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z “While tourists are welcome,” Human Rights Watch wrote, “migrants and asylum seekers face a hostile environment, where they may be subject to detention in inhuman and degrading conditions, risk destitution, and xenophobic violence.” Embattled Greeks lash out at migrants 2012-10-04T22:55:00Z She must either betray the code of silence that keeps her extended family firmly and proudly on the wrong side of the law, or else face destitution. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z "The appearance of destitution, degradation, and barbarism, among the chattering, and almost naked savages … was appalling," she wrote. Susanna Moore's 'Paradise of the Pacific' is a vivid, powerful history of Hawaii 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The delineation of tasks that keeps one couple safe from destitution and filth would feel horribly rigid to another. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Think of the earnest liberal who encounters a panhandler, is moved to pity by the man’s obvious destitution, but refrains from offering a quarter — since the hobo might, after all, spend the money on booze. The poor: America?s piggy bank 2012-05-17T14:31:00Z Mrs. Mailer said it took her years to attend Alcoholics Anonymous to clean up, but that Mailer’s growing fame alongside her growing destitution continued to spark a fury within her. Adele Morales Mailer, half of tempestuous couple, dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z In his works from the 1920s, he captured the depravity of indulgence and destitution that marked the Weimar Republic. Gallery finds art by Nazi-branded "degenerate" Dix 2011-08-31T18:14:50Z In India, Satyajit Ray made the humane miniatures of his 1950s Apu Trilogy, set just a hair’s breadth away from destitution. Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z They confronted scarlet fever, “grippe,” deafness, loneliness and destitution. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Charity, the dole – or nowadays the ever-diminishing top-ups to low pay from the welfare state – are kept just high enough to prevent destitution and revolution. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z The Lennons also saved the family from destitution. The Bay Citizen: Family Opened Up the Door to John and Yoko 2010-10-08T04:15:00Z Lowry's world was a week away from destitution. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z It read: “A family brought to destitution in England has had all its misfortunes clearly traced by the authorities to an un-governable passion for novel reading entertained by the wife and mother.” How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z For “Murder to Excellence,” the two-part tale of destitution and dominance ends with you-know-who on top. Album review: 'Watch the Throne' a royal waste 2011-08-08T21:59:00Z So to achieve greatness and glory, athletes like the Schultz brothers had to endure not only privation, but near destitution. The Truth About Foxcatcher 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature in 1969 for "writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z The viewer might see the fall from rural poverty to urban destitution as a tragedy, but the former sharecroppers are more interested in survival than sentimentality. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z For the poor, the city is almost apocalyptic, its destitution caught in phantasmagoric glimpses. A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z “I said to her, ‘The stereotypical Africa is disease, despair, destitution, deceit — why is that?’” Mo Abudu Isn’t Waiting for Permission 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He was particularly active on the health committee, visiting hospitals, sweatshops and the homes of the poor where he saw under-nourishment, destitution and disease. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z MW Refugee Action provides advice to refugees on the asylum process and accessing legal help, and assists people facing racial harassment, domestic violence and destitution. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z Size, shmize – just as long as it fits As part of BBC4's Why Poverty? season, destitution is traced from the neolithic era through to the present day. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z I saw an elegant circularity in the contrast between my grandfather’s departure in destitution and my return as a published author. Gay, Jewish, Mentally Ill, and a Sponsor of Gypsies in Romania 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But it now faces an upsurge in destitution, absconding and homelessness among refugees after funding for its main advice service was cut by 62%. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z The Prenzlauer Berg district where her parents and their compatriots lived on the edge of destitution is now pricey, "like Park Slope, sidewalks filled with double-wide strollers," he says with sad resignation. Rob Spillman on remaking himself amid the rubble of the past in 'All Tomorrow's Parties' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Such choices were not dramatic options between riches and destitution. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z No one wanted to see young people coming out and being cast into destitution. The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Parks had traveled widely — including an earlier trip to Rio — but never had he seen such destitution. Perspective | Gordon Parks went back to Rio to save a boy’s life. What happened next was a lot more complicated. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z I see that dereliction can survive in opulence; the abundantly wealthy with destitution in their stare. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z The music unfailingly suits the words with its airy lines, elegant ensembles and sly allusions: a whiff of “La Bohème” each time Lydia dreams of noble destitution, for instance. Opera Review: Bronx Opera Company’s ‘The Rivals’ at the Lovinger Theater 2014-01-13T19:15:13Z Down and out in Paris and London, knowing no one and with nothing but her pouch between her and destitution, what does this pure, delicate flower of the aristocracy do? A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In Australia, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre protects asylum seekers from persecution and destitution, and defends their human rights. Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2015: refugees 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But that destitution also beckoned the anti-establishment, materializing in a matrix of artists, musicians and social activists. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z You need to end this one-sided relationship, but he's the one putting food on the table and to walk out is to risk destitution. Cathi Unsworth: women and noir 2012-06-29T21:55:21Z If a marriage unravels, death or destitution may follow. Marriage Can Take Many Forms in India 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z I think it could lead to more destitution, it could lead to more homelessness. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z Some of the densest clusters of destitution, home to what Booth uncharitably described as “vicious and semi-criminal” classes, are in the north of Lambeth, where modern studio flats cost north of a million pounds. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “There is a sense of loss, of sudden exile, of something willfully denied,” Steinberg wrote, “sometimes a feeling that one’s accumulated culture or experience is hopelessly devalued, leaving one exposed to spiritual destitution.” ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The long history of Market Row and Granville Arcade, now known as Brixton Village, has borne witness to everything from world wars to destitution and regeneration. Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z “Disasters like these earthquakes pound communities who are already barely able to feed themselves back into utter destitution,” the WFP said. World Food Program appeals for $19 million to provide emergency food in quake-hit Afghanistan 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Vulnerable families could increasingly be forced into destitution this winter because of the impact of universal credit deductions, anti-poverty campaigners have warned. Families on reduced benefits face tough winter, charities warn 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z “With the few resources we have left, we are not able to serve all those people teetering on the edge of utter destitution.” UN food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Now they face destitution in Pakistan where the government, grappling with an economic crisis, is increasingly anxious about the number of Afghans arriving, at times at the request of Western governments, Pakistani officials say. Afghans dreaming of U.S. refuge feel stuck in processing limbo 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z “Low economic growth and stagnant productivity is increasing the financial vulnerability of households in the bottom half of the income distribution and the incidence of destitution at the poorest end,” the report said. U.K. Economy Grows Weakly 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z She has seen the outcome of untreated mental illness — destitution, violence, incarceration and death — and as angry as many families are at the current system, so is she. A last resort: Families turn to private contractors to help children lost to the street 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The slim exhibition catalog offers a very good overview of Ceruti’s early career, the paintings’ unusual subject matter and the period’s social perceptions around destitution — a widespread, intractable condition in 18th-century Brescia. Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti's 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The statement also urged all Kenyans to embrace dialogue and non-violence: “We must not allow the selfish interests of political leaders to destroy our homeland and push us into destitution,” it said. Kenyan religious leaders urge the president to repeal a new tax law as protests surge 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Boate has not been in the mall for years — not because of the challenges of the neighborhood, the homelessness and the destitution, which she calls a “sad commentary on the times.” Westfield Gives Up San Francisco Mall, Signaling More Pain Ahead 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The hellish mills, the starving workers, and the destitution and anguish of the factory towns were all part of nineteenth-century European capitalism. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z While migration to the U.S. southern border has always fluctuated, the pandemic and the recession that followed hit Latin America harder than almost anywhere else in the world, plunging millions into hunger, destitution and despair. What’s Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z But the Korengalis’ earnings from such transactions were often the only thing that kept struggling families from falling into complete destitution. A Rare Glimpse into Afghanistan’s Spectacular, Vanishing Forests 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z After a life spent as a pillar of Bend’s civic life, Mr. Coyner had somehow reached a point of near total destitution, surrounded by the prosperity he had helped create. Homeless in the City Where He Was Once Mayor 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Civil servants have gone without salaries for years, pushing entire families into destitution. Stampede in Yemen Kills 78 People Gathering to Receive Holiday Donations 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z "These workers are at high risk of forced labour and severe destitution," said independent labour activist Andy Hall, whose team has been in contact with the migrant workers. Malaysia probes cases of migrant workers left jobless, without passports 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z On the edge of destitution and with nowhere to turn, residents are trying to make do on their own. Donations and despair: Syria's north-west tries to rebuild after quake 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, she said, “Yemen remains a staggering emergency” with more that 17 million people in need of assistance this year, funding in short supply and economic problems “pushing even more people into destitution.” UN says intense diplomacy under way to end 8-year Yemen war 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Rights groups and think tanks have criticised the state government's decision to close down the camps, saying it has pushed over 200,000 people into deeper suffering and destitution. Nigeria election 2023: Has Buhari tackled Boko Haram threat? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The unrest began in early December following the destitution and arrest of Castillo, Peru’s first president of rural, Andean roots, following his attempt to dissolve Congress and head off his own impeachment. 2 more people killed in southern Peru amid unrest 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The unrest began in early December following the destitution and arrest of Castillo, Peru’s first president of humble, rural roots, following his widely condemned attempt to dissolve Congress and head off his own impeachment. Protests spread through Peru’s south with clashes in Cusco 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Rising prices have driven some asylum seekers to destitution, a charity has warned. Cost of Living: Asylum seekers driven to destitution - charity 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Next in importance was cash income from unemployment insurance and stimulus payments, forestalling destitution for most unemployed, low-income workers through mid-2021. Pandemic eviction protections, direct payments kept homelessness in check, study shows 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z In an open letter to the prime minister, 19 charities including the Samaritans and Mind, have urged the prime minister "to act with speed and compassion to tackle the root causes of destitution". Charities warn Rishi Sunak about cost of living crisis suicide risk 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z More than two million Venezuelans have settled in Colombia in recent years, fleeing destitution. Colombia Leads a New Latin American Left Into the Climate Fight 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z It threatened to send millions of Britons, already reeling from inflation and other challenges, spiraling into destitution, unable to heat or power their homes. What Happened With Liz Truss in Britain? A Guide to the Basics 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Some hospitals have shut, while businesses and transport services stopped working in protest of destitution. Haiti asks world for military help to curb chaos 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z For the sheltered and unsheltered people living in those areas, “destitution becomes more of the norm, and it becomes harder to escape,” Metraux said. Chinatown International District pushes back at expanded homeless shelter. Officials ask where else? 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z With some experts warning that millions of Britons could face destitution from energy bills that could jump 80 percent in October, Truss is widely expected to authorize a massive state intervention in the energy markets. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Of safety, as destitution fuels a crime wave even as terrorist attacks — though reduced — continue to kill and maim. 'I want to leave more than ever': A year after U.S. pullout, Kabul is a city in despair 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Not only does this contrast with the white space and white text, creating a more organized and cleaner look, it more effectively appeals to readers’ emotions by emphasizing the destitution left by the Syrian War. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The South, which had experienced catastrophic losses during the conflict, was reduced to political dependence and economic destitution. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z "This is going to cause destitution and devastation, this will cause loss of life if real action is not taken to stem this crisis." Nicola Sturgeon calls for halt to energy price cap rises 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z "This is going to cause destitution and devastation." Anas Sarwar calls for urgent legislation on cost of living 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Mr Sunak has said the tax cuts offered by his rival won't help pensioners and the low-paid enough, warning that millions could be left at risk of destitution without further direct payments. Tory leadership rivals dismiss Labour plan to freeze energy costs 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z But also speaking at the Cheltenham hustings, Mr Sunak said tax cuts would "leave millions of incredibly vulnerable people at risk of destitution". Liz Truss defends energy firms saying profit is not evil 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z It added the repayments were pushing the most vulnerable into destitution. Pause benefit deductions for debt repayment - MPs 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “Inequality is estimated to have worsened, with those already poor falling into deeper destitution,” the World Bank said in its latest update. Myanmar’s economy fragile as fighting, inflation hit poor 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Central Command in April, said of Central Asian fears that the Islamic State or al-Qaeda could exploit growing hunger and destitution in Afghanistan and destabilize the broader region. U.S. works to scale up intelligence networks in Central Asia 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z He said the war, along with other crises, “is threatening to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution, leaving social and economic chaos in its wake.” UN report: Ukraine war is increasing suffering of millions 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “An entire generation has been condemned to destitution.” After Lebanon’s Collapse, Can an Election Fix the Country? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z "The callous destruction of the Lebanese economy cannot be captured by statistics alone," de Schutter's report said, adding that an entire generation had been condemned to destitution. Lebanese state violated human rights by mismanaging crisis, UN poverty envoy says 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Many of those refugees fleeing Afghanistan’s repression and destitution harbor humble dreams: of scraping by as construction laborers, factory workers and farmhands in Iran. As Iran-Taliban tensions rise, Afghan migrants in tinderbox 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z "People need a safety net so they can bounce back, not fall into destitution." 'I'm in work but I need to use a food bank' 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Even if we are not directly responsible for someone’s plummeting into destitution, are we guiltless if we refuse to erect adequate and durable safety nets? When it comes to homelessness, we speak with compassion but act without empathy 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Government must pull every lever at its disposal in order to protect those on the lowest incomes from the scars of debt and destitution. Cost of living: One in five expect to go into debt this year, survey says 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z A think tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, estimates the payroll tax hike, combined with higher inflation, could drive a 30% rise in destitution in Britain. UK's inflation bill eats into Sunak's budget leeway 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z As the International Crisis Group recently warned, “Hunger and destitution following the Taliban’s takeover of the country seem poised to kill more Afghans than all the bombs and bullets of the past two decades.” Opinion | ‘We’ve Never Been Smuggled Before’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z But it’s often the difference between a family getting what it needs to survive and falling into hardship and destitution. Opinion | This Is the Difference Between a Family Surviving and a Family Sinking 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Some look at those who are homeless and feel nothing but compassion for people exposed to rain, cold and destitution. Seattle’s most complex puzzle 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z She said they had been trying to get clarity for months and feared their clients would become overstayers by omission - facing possible homelessness and destitution. Afghan refugees worried over UK visas, lawyers warn 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z "But it was the utter refusal by the DWP to get a grip of cases when people provided evidence and people are living in severe destitution and we should not underestimate that," he said. Fight for payment of UK pensions lost in Yemen warzone 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Haitian migrants have been leaving a country engulfed in gang violence, political upheaval and destitution after the assassination of the president and a deadly earthquake. A Surge at Sea: Migrants Seek Entry to the U.S. Aboard Flimsy Boats 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Those on the left like to emphasize push factors — things that drive people to leave their countries, like violence, natural disasters or destitution. Trump’s Dream of a Border Wall, Twisted Into a Sci-Fi Nightmare 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for greater economic development, saying it’s critical to rapidly inject liquidity into the Afghan economy “and avoid a meltdown that would lead to poverty, hunger and destitution for millions.” The AP Interview: Taliban pledge all girls in schools soon 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z "We must do even more to rapidly inject liquidity into the economy and avoid a meltdown that would lead to poverty, hunger and destitution for millions," he said. U.N. chief appeals for release of money to save Afghan lives 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The collective, which said it has more than 130,000 registered members, said that sex workers faced destitution, and it sought relief measures for female and transgender sex workers across India. India’s Sex Workers Win Benefits From the Country’s Top Court 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z "Our country director describes the situation as quite dire. She says it's 'an avalanche of hunger and destitution'." Afghans face "avalanche of hunger and destitution" - UN agency 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z To stand up to protect water, to assist a truth-teller, if you are a woman, is to face potential economic destitution. Ghislaine Maxwell's trial is a sideshow — powerful, abusive men will not be held accountable 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z A spokesperson said: “The terms that Clarks are attempting to force on their employees, seeing some lose between 15% and 20% of their annual income, will lead many into financial destitution and even homelessness.” Clarks accused of using agency workers to cover strike 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z She said she is in touch with many former miners, some of whom fell into destitution after the last mine here closed. COP26 host U.K. pledges to phase out coal power while considering its first new coal mine in 30 years 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Some 8.7 million people are "one step away from starvation," said McGroarty, adding: "There is a tsunami of destitution, incredible suffering and hunger spiraling out of control." U.N. urgently needs cash in Afghanistan, but struggles for solution 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Members of three families that had returned to Raqqa, once the Islamic State’s capital, described lives of destitution and ostracized isolation, saying their neighbors ignored or taunted them. Syrian detention camp rocked by dozens of killings blamed on Islamic State women 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Truman let it be known that he had entered presidential retirement in 1953 on the verge of destitution. Column: Trump will get millions in post-presidential benefits, thanks to Harry Truman's lies 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Calvin’s eventual destitution helped to prove the severity of his case, and it helped him qualify for more comprehensive assistance, including a permanent and supportive place to live. Becoming homeless in Seattle helped him find psychiatric help. His mom says it shouldn’t have taken that long. 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Those visa holders - often doing the low-paid, essential jobs of cleaning and food delivery - were also ineligible for the government's pandemic welfare support, leaving many facing destitution. 'Fortress Australia': Why calls to open up borders are meeting resistance 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Geir Pedersen pointed to “economic destitution, a pandemic, displacement, detention and abduction — all while violent conflict, terrorism and human rights abuses continue” in the country. UN envoy: Syrian people face ìmmense humanitarian suffering 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Many people have heard about the violence, the lawlessness and the destitution that provoke these people to enter the United States. Their Lawsuit Prevented 400,000 Deportations. Now It’s Biden’s Call. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Do you want travel frustrations or just emotional destitution? The loneliest polar bear has company in a warming world 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z To them, negative incentives, like avoiding destitution, will do for workers: There is no need for a popular and overdue minimum wage hike. Military might, market ideology and moral posturing: A toxic combination that has poisoned America 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z In its report, the committee said that removing the top-up in April would force hundreds of thousands of families below the breadline and drag those already in poverty "down into destitution". Universal Credit: Extend £20 benefit top-up for a year, say MPs 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In a country where 15% of young people are unemployed and over 21% of the population live in poverty, aligning with the right party can save an entire village from destitution. Uganda elections 2021: How ex-rebel Yoweri Museveni has stayed in power for 35 years 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Or without separating young children from parents seeking refuge from drug lords, bloodthirsty gangs and destitution. Opinion | It’s time to bring down the curtain on the Trump tragedy 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z But once stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits started expiring, millions of people were pushed into destitution. Opinion | When ‘the American Way’ Met the Coronavirus 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The result, community organisations say, is that many risk destitution and homelessness. Lives in limbo: more than 1,500 asylum seekers still face uncertain future 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z "Without regular support, hundreds of thousands of families will be swept into poverty or even destitution. government must end the uncertainty and commit to extending this lifeline." Universal Credit: Extend £20 benefit top-up for a year, say MPs 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z It defines destitution as people who can't afford two or more essentials like shelter, food, heating or clothing. Covid: Poverty and virus 'pushing families closer to the brink' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Covid-19 is raging, our economy is sputtering, many families are on the brink of destitution, to mention a few of the challenges. Opinion | ‘Dear Joe’: Advice for Biden 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z We were on our own, companies pleading destitution while lavishly rewarding shareholders and top executives. This era’s capitalism is driving many among the young to socialism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z While polls show most Peruvians wanted Vizcarra to remain in office until his term ends in July and then face a probe into the allegations, some segments of society supported his destitution. Peru president’s ouster sparks wave of youth-led protests 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “If it is possible, I get back my eyesight, I will resume my job and serve in the police again,” she said, adding in part she needed an income to avoid destitution. Afghan woman shot, blinded, for getting a job 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z She subsequently told the BBC the UK risked a "period of destitution", with rising homelessness, family and child poverty, unless benefits were increased to compensate for people's loss of earnings. Covid: Labour calls for emergency rough sleeper plan to be revived 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z But livelihoods and families were at stake, with many who owed their jobs to samba facing financial hardship or even destitution and hunger. Samba makes tentative return in Rio de Janeiro laid low by Covid 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z The United Kingdom faces a “period of destitution” in which families “can’t put shoes on” children, the government’s former homelessness adviser said. Britain mulls tighter lockdowns on London and northern England 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Dareen Khalifa, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, said that a more pressing concern for the women was avoiding rejection and destitution. Kurdish-led zone vows to release Syrians from detention camp for ISIS families 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z He spoke of his country in glowing terms and attributed the economic destitution afflicting millions of Venezuelans to American sanctions. Saudi King, in First U.N. Speech, Assails Longtime Nemesis Iran 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z “When they are removed, there is potential for upheaval with mass layoffs, a spike in destitution, family structures being tested and potential demonizing of minorities and refugees.” Fear and poverty in Turkey as pandemic hits Erdogan's base 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z But as Anne Paxton, attorney and policy director for the Unemployment Law Project, said in an interview: “This is an emergency. This is a crisis. People are facing destitution.” No more unemployment payment delays 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z But life at sea has proved to be worse than destitution on land. Philippine fishermen stranded at sea by pandemic: 'We think about jumping overboard' 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The pandemic has forced many Chileans out of work, and – with only a meagre social safety net – residents of poor neighbourhoods are living in destitution. Chile police using Covid-19 quarantine as pretext to crush protest, activists say 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z For many Ethiopians, there is still little cushion between getting by and destitution. Extreme poverty rises; a generation sees a future slip away 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z India’s strict lockdown, first imposed in late March, left tens of thousands of the slum’s daily-wage residents on the verge of destitution. How a packed slum in Mumbai beat back the coronavirus, as India’s cases continue to soar 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Portions of the middle class, or even the upper middle class, are being now forced down into a state of near destitution. Mike Davis on the global crisis: "This moment is not a tunnel with a bright light at the end" 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z With the disappearance of a year’s income, many have been pushed into destitution; a number of climbers have launched fundraisers to help Everest workers feed themselves and their families. 'Everyone is in that fine line between death and life': inside Everest's deadliest queue 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z "Isn't it wrong that a hard-working, law-abiding family like that is being forced by the current arrangements into destitution," he asked. 'We can't fulfil our basic needs in this pandemic' 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “People do everything in their power to hang on to shelter and complete destitution is a lagging outcome,” he said. U.S. homelessness could increase 45% because of coronavirus unemployment, study says 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Finding a way to control the virus without letting people fall into destitution is the task of local officials like Kiran Dighavkar, the assistant municipal commissioner in charge of Dharavi and two other nearby areas. In one of the world’s largest slums, the fight against the coronavirus has turned into a struggle to survive 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z By the end of the year, half a billion people may be pushed into destitution, largely because of the pandemic, the United Nations estimates. Millions Had Risen Out of Poverty. Coronavirus Is Pulling Them Back. 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z They say many families need money urgently, to prevent them being from being "swept into destitution". 'We go hungry so we can feed our children' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Okubajo said his site, and others like it, are effectively a DIY economic stimulus, allowing those with cash to prevent people from falling into destitution. Nigeria's tech experts step in to help those losing livelihoods under lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z “Recovery from complete destitution lags even more, so the increases in homelessness that we see are likely to be with us for a while.” U.S. homelessness could increase 45% because of coronavirus unemployment, study says 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The long-term impact of the shutdown, he says, will be lots of starvation deaths, destitution and penury. India migrants have a question: When can I go home? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Up to a million undocumented people are thought to be at risk of destitution in the UK alone. Stranded or shunned: Europe's migrant workers caught in no-man's land 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z If a lockdown cuts these social ties, adversity becomes destitution. Why lockdowns may not be the answer in Africa 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “The point is to avoid utter destitution – hunger, desperation and chaos.” Nigeria's tech experts step in to help those losing livelihoods under lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z More than a century ago, famed journalist and social reformer Jacob Riis searched for a way to expose the destitution of New York’s slums. From the files: Isle used for virus burials has long history 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Physicians see disease and destitution in clinics and hospitals. Doctors have been whistleblowers throughout history. They’ve also been silenced 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z And nobody should expect that this will not create destitution at an unimaginable scale. COVID-19 and the U.S.: What lies ahead 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z An even bigger challenge will be keeping economies functional and stopping a slide into destitution and hunger. Why lockdowns may not be the answer in Africa 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The pandemic is a force multiplier that spells destitution for these already vulnerable workers. Uber drivers are being forced to choose between risking Covid-19 or starvation | Veena Dubal and Meredith Whittaker 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z As basic humanity demands that he minimize death and destitution, he seems more set on protecting his political standing and rewarding cronies. Opinion | This president has no empathy 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Likewise, we warned about starving the NHS so that its resilience is shot, creating a generation of renters with no savings, and allowing homelessness and destitution to mushroom. The coronavirus pandemic threatens a crisis for human rights too | Afua Hirsch 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Mitsotakis believes that unlike 2015, when Syrians fleeing war and destitution sought refuge in Europe, Turkey, this time, is consciously attempting to weaponise refugees in pursuit of its own policy goals. Greece hopes EU-Turkey talks will ease tension over refugee crisis 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z His figures, alongside Lange’s photographs of extreme destitution and hopelessness, were the first records of what would become known as the Dust Bowl, the name given to the drought-choked Southern Plains. How Dorothea Lange Defined the Role of the Modern Photojournalist 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Every day we wait, families face abject destitution. Uber drivers are being forced to choose between risking Covid-19 or starvation | Veena Dubal and Meredith Whittaker 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z There would be no access to justice, no rights for workers, no defence against hunger and destitution, no weekends. If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label | George Monbiot 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The instability was at first unsettling, then upending and now tormenting as hundreds of earthquakes have been rattling the southern coast, deepening the destitution and fear that the help may never come. Puerto Ricans fear help may never come 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Despite a gradual trend to reduce global poverty levels, it said that these people lacked adequate income to escape destitution. UN report: half a billion people struggle to find adequate paid work 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Given the abject destitution suffered amid the rubble of the war, that may adequately explain the attraction of totalitarian parties in the 1940s and 1950s. Opinion | Charles Krauthammer: The authoritarian temptation 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Not every Oscar performance has to be transformative; not every Oscar character must be facing destitution or dying of a terminal illness. - The Washington Post 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Failure to do so would condemn many millions of people, particularly in poor and vulnerable countries, to destitution and death and make irreversible global warming more likely. Why the UN climate action summit matters 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He deployed the same ruthlessness in his fight against white colonial rule in the 1960s and 1970s to crush post-independence opponents, rig elections and drive his once-prosperous country into destitution. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Ruling in the name of the African masses, he was uneasy with those same ordinary people, whose lives descended into destitution as a gaudy elite accumulated mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and millions of American dollars. Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Advocates say that the migrants often face danger and destitution in Mexican border towns, leaving them no good options. Thousands of Central American migrants take free rides home... 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z A month or so later focus shifted to Calais, where French and British policies of discouraging irregular migrants from attempting to cross the Channel had led to a growing spectacle of mass destitution. How the media framed the way we see the migrant crisis 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z At adventure’s end, a crusty Nevada settler points out, clairvoyantly, that although Powell will live on in fame, most of his intrepid crew will die in destitution and obscurity. Review: 'Men on Boats' puts women at the helm of this thrill ride 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It was a time of destitution and turmoil for millions of workers. Ross Perot: The political outsider 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Of course, many immigrants—including those making up the bulk of undocumented recent arrivals, who are fleeing violence and destitution in Central America—come here because they feel they absolutely must. Cutouts of J.F.K., Jr., Tanks, and Adulation at Trump’s “Salute to America” 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Late last year a report by the Danish and Swiss refugee councils found that vulnerable asylum seekers returned to Italy faced arbitrary access to accommodation, risk of destitution and substandard reception conditions. Number of asylum seekers sent back to Italy triples in five years 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Almost every person experiencing destitution seen by CAP described feeling socially isolated or lonely when in debt. When poverty means living without soap 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z If they failed, if they “fell,” if they even faltered, the slide into destitution was swift. Review | Jack the Ripper’s victims are famous in death, but what were their lives like? 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But once the month is over, broke Diana faces indigence back in England unless she’s rescued from destitution by true love. Review: A 1908 feminist rom-com? Why ‘Diana of Dobson’s’ has been forgotten for too long 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Among the people I met, destitution did not deter their loyalty. The Dangerous Dregs of ISIS 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z We might relieve ourselves of moral agency by claiming that it’s already too late to act, but in doing so we condemn others to destitution or death. Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse | George Monbiot 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Those rules are in place because the bankruptcy system — what seems like a grim realm of destitution — is actually a place for hope and opportunity. One Man vs. McKinsey: A Billionaire Says the Consultancy Has Rigged the Bankruptcy System 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Tamara Barnett from the Human Trafficking Foundation said a lot of survivors are sent home, or disappear 'into the ether, back into destitution'. Modern slavery cases 'rise by a third' 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Like the others, they were born in destitution, sharing a ramshackle single-room home with their parents and two more siblings. A Locked Door, a Fire and 41 Girls Killed as Police Stood By 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The author recalls a life lived on the brink, where a petty mishap can mean destitution. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Facing destitution after the death of her husband, Mr. Baker’s mother took dire measures. Russell Baker, droll columnist and memoirist who twice won Pulitzer, dies at 93 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z That destitution is the root cause of many of Mexico’s other ills. Who is more dangerous: El Chapo or Carlos Slim? | Michael Massing 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z I reflected on the desolation of poverty, of destitution, of sickness and sin. How the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Beckett, despite Österling’s previous reservations, would win the next year, “for his writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation”. Samuel Beckett rejected as unsuitable for the Nobel prize in 1968 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z After their release from the hospital, three years of destitution and terror followed. After an Attack by Zealots, an Indian Family Seeks Asylum 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z But the new system has been hit by delays and claims it is forcing some claimants into destitution. More time to switch to universal credit 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z That’s because Vang’s life took him the long way, through war, prison camp, destitution, immigration and a lot of hard work. Minnesota man reflects on journey from refugee to dentist 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Today, they live in overcrowded reservations or camped on the side of the highways in utter destitution. Bolsonaro’s election is catastrophic news for Brazil’s indigenous tribes | Fiona Watson 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Such destitution lies behind a caravan expected to leave San Salvador on Oct. Publicity, transport, food: migrants flock to more caravans after... 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z A dastardly communist conspiracy to seize control of Latin America’s largest democracy and turn it into a Bolivarian inferno of savagery and destitution. The new Venezuela? Brazil populist Bolsonaro's scare tactic gains traction 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Keep in mind that this hogging of the national prosperity is a daily heist already in progress as the 2008 dislocation continues, like a conveyor belt that takes so many to destitution. A decade after Lehman Brothers, U.S. is still a Stucknation 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z When Abdelsamie arrived in Greece, she found the scale of destitution shocking. ‘We’re brothers, sisters and activists’: the Greek collective of gay and trans refugees 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z This has caused growing inequality below the poverty line, with the working poor receiving much more social aid than the abandoned nonworking poor or the precariously employed, who are plunged into destitution. Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Without salmon in this region, where unemployment can reach 80 percent in some areas, families risk hunger and destitution. Sick River: Can These California Tribes Beat Heroin and History? 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Causing destitution rarely makes the world a better place. Sanctions on Iran are morally wrong – and they won’t work | Afua Hirsch 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z These are places where honest destitution mixes with criminal wealth, and where the Italian state often appears to have lost control completely. An unsolved murder at Italy’s most notorious tower block 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z In these “Badlands”, Farren and Riley joined forces to found the biggest and ritziest nightclub and casino that Shanghai had ever seen—while all around were destitution, squalor, cruelty and violence. A gripping tale of Sodom sliding towards its bloody end 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Yet, even amid the destitution, there are glimmers of economic development. The fight against Islamic State is moving to Africa 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Residents on fixed incomes, in contrast, are facing surging rents, driving some to destitution and the brink of homelessness. 'All humanity has left the area': the cities paying for Tesla's Gigafactory 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Desperation and destitution obscure the dignity and worthiness of people when they are dealt with in such numbers. A moral crisis grips the US border. Yet the religious right is shamefully silent | Marilynne Robinson 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z “It’s always been representative of this gap between wealth and destitution and as the city developed, it just got wider and wider and wider, but it was there from the very beginning.” Broadway: the 13-mile street that charts the delirious story of America 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “The government has created destitution,” says Barry Kushner, a Labour Party councilman in Liverpool and the cabinet member for children’s services. In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z In 17th- and 18th-century England, this panic resulted in harsh laws against vagabondage, and the development of charities to ameliorate the worst effects of enforced destitution. How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Best-known for fighting disease and destitution around the globe, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now turning its attention homeward with a new initiative to help poor Americans move up the economic ladder. Gates Foundation pledges $158 million to fight poverty in U.S. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z He witnessed harrowing scenes of hunger and destitution in Mississippi and the coal country of Kentucky. The 'Bobby phenomenon': Netflix doc looks at Robert Kennedy's stellar political rise 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z To her it makes sense that destitution and exploitation go hand in hand - it's happened all her life. Secret world: The women who cannot report sexual abuse 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z We are in peril from within - headed for economic destitution, along with widening gaps between classes, regions and generations. Trump Chooses Bolton for 3rd Security Adviser as Shake-Up Continues 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Ordinary folk in the novel scrape about to avoid destitution. The real resonances, and warnings, of Weimar Germany 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z A national disgrace: It is neither desirable nor morally acceptable to blithely tolerate a level of destitution more commonly associated with Calcutta or Sao Paolo. Essential California: A deep dive into homelessness 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The roaming part, as a normal state of being, would get old quickly, whether due to illness/infirmity, or some adversity which reduces one to destitution. When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z We might even get rid of their health care system, so that, like us they're one broken bone or hospitalization away from utter destitution.... French Companies Have Newfound Freedom … to Fire 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z A mix of shame, destitution and state complicity turned these facilities into prisons, and residents were put to work for the church. How Ireland Moved to the Left: ‘The Demise of the Church’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Once one of the richest countries in Africa now in destitution, a misery for it's people that was brought about through the total mismanagement of Mugabe. With Mugabe’s Era Ending in Zimbabwe, a Warning Echoes in Africa 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “It doesn’t mean you become rich, but it often means you rise from absolute destitution to dignified poverty.” How the prosperity gospel is sparking a major change in predominantly Catholic Brazil 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z But, in Järvinen’s case at least, the sum has removed the fear of utter destitution, freeing him to do work he finds meaningful. A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Franco’s combination documentary and art film features real sufferers of poverty and destitution telling heartbreaking tales of woe. Italian documentary 'Al Di Qua' turns camera on forgotten souls 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The declaration “is the root cause of our destitution, dispossession and the ongoing occupation,” the Palestinian mission to Britain told a parliamentary committee in April. The Israelis and Palestinians are still haunted by their history 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z But Maria swept away their ocean-side home, and banished them to a new level of destitution. ‘Like Going Back in Time’: Puerto Ricans Put Survival Skills to Use 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Senior Labour backbencher Frank Field told the Victoria Derbyshire programme claimants were being "pushed into destitution". 'My child searched bins for food' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Senior backbencher Frank Field said people were being "pushed towards destitution" on a growing scale. MPs to debate Universal Credit extension 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Progress, they say, has been thwarted by skyrocketing housing costs that have pushed more Californians into destitution. California Today: Homeless Camps, With Official Blessing 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, an all-party group of MPs and peers warned that refugees faced homelessness and destitution because of a "two-tier" system. Child migrants 'exploited every 30 seconds' 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z It said the Nigerians sent back face more violence, destitution and further displacement. Rights groups: Cameroon forces return of 100k Nigerians 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z He wants Jokowi to know that the Paniai people, aside from living under the looming threat of a rapacious military, wallow in destitution, with paltry education and health services. Poverty and Death in Indonesia's Land of Gold 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The judge said: “It is not possible to leave these people, who are in a state of complete destitution, without any aid.” French police evict 2,000 refugees and migrants sleeping rough in Paris 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But the war had also left Poland, and much of Europe, in a state of famine and destitution. America’s standing may be tumbling now, but once upon a time Poland sent the U.S. a birthday card. With 5 million signatures. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z This bill will force millions of Americans into bankruptcy and destitution. No, the Republican health care bill isn’t dead — and it amounts to a crime against humanity 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, the all-parliamentary group on refugees published a report saying thousands of refugees face homelessness and destitution because of a "two-tier" UK system. Safe return review refugee policy 'beyond basic morality' - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z "Vulnerability factors are probably less significant than other countries' - for example, social inequalities and situations of complete destitution," she said. U.N. rights expert praises Cuba social welfare system; hopes for more dialogue 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z For many older Americans, Social Security and Medicare are the last refuges against destitution. The Trump faithful get the budget cuts they voted for 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “The basic line from the left is ‘this program alone is standing between the poor and destitution,’” Rector said. Analysis | If you’re a poor person in America, Trump’s budget is not for you 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z People affected by famine may also experience other impacts, including widespread hunger, loss of assets, the breakdown of social support networks, distress migration and destitution. Famines in the 21st century? It’s not for lack of food 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Judith Dennis, policy manager for the Refugee Council, said a major concern was the high rate of destitution and homelessness experienced by refugees in Britain. Britain is one of worst places in western Europe for asylum seekers 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z She did note, however, concerns over Cubans emigrating, for example, in hopes of taking greater advantage of their skills abroad and then "finding themselves in a situation of destitution." U.N. rights expert praises Cuba social welfare system; hopes for more dialogue 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Children have surged across the border in recent years, many fleeing violence and destitution in Central America. Major Elements of Trump’s New Immigration Policies 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Other factors that may be considered include large-scale displacement, widespread destitution, disease outbreaks and social collapse. Why are there still famines? - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Erwin Galán stars as Gordon Miller, a theatrical producer trying to mount an epic of American history against the overwhelming odds of his own destitution. Checking in with a Marx Brothers comedy at Taproot 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z That, on top of months of very little economic activity under IS rule, reduced many of Mosul’s poor to destitution. At Mosul front, Iraqis fleeing and returning cross paths 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The deaths shocked many Russians, evoking grim memories of widespread destitution after the collapse of the Soviet Union. After 72 Die, Putin Tightens Limits on Consumer Products High in Alcohol 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z What happened between now and her once promising music career — 10 haunting years of destitution and desperation — is difficult to overcome, she said. Penn Station Inhabitant Finally Has a Home of Her Own 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z “Home has turned into a source of deferred dreams and destitution, characterized by brutal dictatorship, while fleeing is becoming equally challenging.” The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The arrival of families, women and children from Central America seeking asylum is not related to a broken immigration system, and it is not just about destitution. The Obama administration’s response to Central American refugees is wrong 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z SSD becomes the only alternative to destitution and to be fair, these people have paid into this system their entire working lives. Q. and A. With Eric Rosengren: The Danger of Low Unemployment 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “The first thing that drives people to work with waste, wherever it is, is destitution – it’s poverty,” explains Sonia Dias, a leading Brazilian waste expert. 'Hell on earth': the great urban scandal of family life lived on a rubbish dump 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Chess transformed Mutesi’s life, taking her from destitution to foreign cities and red-carpet appearances with movie stars. Uganda’s ‘Queen of Katwe’ got her start at this slum chess school 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Phase 5 applies when, even with humanitarian assistance, "starvation, death and destitution" are evident. Famine killing tens of thousands in Boko Haram region: U.N. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In Afghanistan, analysts warn that the EU is sending people back to danger and destitution. EU's secret ultimatum to Afghanistan: accept 80,000 deportees or lose aid 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z In 1935, Congress approved the Social Security Act, aimed at preventing destitution among the elderly, the crippled and the blind. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z In an era without child welfare, it was a vast improvement over the alternative, which was destitution. Back-Stabbing and Threats of a ‘Suicide Parachute’ at Hershey 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z With less land for livestock, destitution is now on the rise, she said. As pastoralist land shrinks, Maasai women take livestock lead 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z That’s due to inadequate health care, including lack of addiction services, as well as despair caused by destitution and lack of hope. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “The Hun family includes members once implicated in a $1 billion heroin smuggling operation, shoot-outs, a fatal hit-and-run, and land grabs that have caused mass displacements and destitution among Cambodia’s rural poor,” the report said. Hun Sen, Cambodian president, amassed huge secret fortune, report finds 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z With few local job options, some of the laid-off employees quickly tumbled into destitution. A Steel Mill Lives Again, in a Setback for China 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z This baby, like her first, will be born into destitution. 'My soul is in Damascus': portraits of life on the refugee trail 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z But others credit the Workers’ Party with lifting tens of millions of poor Brazilians from destitution over the past decade and they decry the impeachment process as anti-democratic. Brazil President Says She Won't Quit After Impeachment Vote 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But others credit the Workers' Party with lifting tens of millions of poor Brazilians from destitution over the past decade and they decry the impeachment process as anti-democratic. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says she won't step down despite the lower Chamber of Deputies voting in favor of impeaching her 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Rousseff's supporters said it was a blow for the poor — an estimated 30 million of whom were lifted out of destitution, thanks in part to the Workers' Party's popular wealth redistribution programs. Dilma Rousseff Has Been Impeached 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Then he’s elected president, and America devolves into a nation of manufactured wars, mass destitution, and concentration camps. Sci-fi Sunday: the creeping fascism of American literature 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z I speak from personal experience with and now, due to destitution from unemployment, with no car to use, but a good-sized shopping cart instead. Mobility: The urban downshift : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The slum is an island of destitution encircled by the more affluent, military-owned Defense Housing Authority township that surrounds it. Meet The MMA Fighter Hoping to Heal Pakistan 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Lord Alton of Liverpool, who proposed it, said it would end the "enforced workhouse destitution" currently experienced by asylum seekers. Government suffers two defeats in Lords on Immigration Bill - BBC News 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z So the majority — many of them middle-class professionals in their homelands, now stuck in grimy destitution — engage in a stultifying waiting game. Kurdish migrants mired in a stultifying waiting game on the muddy coast of France 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z "We demand the international community and relevant national organizations ... immediately and decisively intervene to stop the intentional killing and destitution," the group said. Syria and Iran warn Saudis against sending troops, who would 'return in wooden boxes' 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z In various stories, Howard’s characters teeter on the verge of destitution. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z More than a million benefits claimants may be facing destitution after disappearing from the welfare system, Labour ex-minister Frank Field claims. Missing benefits claimants 'risk destitution' - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “On the global level we see a scandalous gap between the opulence of the wealthy and the utter destitution of the poor,” he said in the lengthy address on technology. Pope Francis to join Google's Eric Schmidt in rare tech industry meeting 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z But suddenly, as part of a novel attempt to deal with rising poverty and destitution here, they were city workers for the day. Albuquerque, Revising Approach Toward the Homeless, Offers Them Jobs 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z India faces many pressing challenges, not least the pervasive destitution and injustice that mar the lives of millions of its citizens. Dr. Modi and Mr. Hyde 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The EU's leading human rights forum, the 47-nation Council of Europe admonished the Netherlands in 2014 for placing asylum seekers in administrative detention and leaving many "irregular immigrants" in legal limbo and destitution. Dutch court rules that migrants' right to food, shelter not unconditional 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z If the goal is to defeat the Islamic State, he said, leaving refugees in a state of destitution with no options for their future will only exacerbate the cause. 'Americans saved my life': former refugees from Iraq perplexed by US fears 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z She said it had kept her and her children, aged one to four years old, from near destitution after she escaped a bad six-year relationship. America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z This is precisely the sort of smart foreign policy that Obama called for in this year's National Security Strategy, recognizing that "the United States is safer and stronger when fewer people face destitution." Saving Lives, Strengthening Nations 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z In a country fractured by ethnic divisions and riddled with corruption, drug trafficking and destitution, expectations for the next government are perhaps implausibly high. Myanmar Election Has Aung San Suu Kyi’s Party Confident of Landslide 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: Pichi Chuang/Reuters The danger of change is not destitution, but inequality Productivity is the secret ingredient in economic growth. Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Driven to destitution, people with dementia finally may qualify for Medicaid-funded institutional care. Editorials from around Oregon 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Yet millions still experience the horrors of destitution and of premature death. Measuring World Poverty as It Shrinks 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Nina Simone became so committed to the civil rights movement that her political activism scared away gig bookers and, coupled with mental health problems, almost drove her to destitution. Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and the pitfalls of talking politics in interviews 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z After 1979, these expectations took on the form of social rules, to the degree that wealth and affluence was eyed with suspicion and poverty and destitution was exalted as signs of piety. Why Young Iranians Care About Fashion More Than Revolution 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The Libyan route is taken by many of the people fleeing the destitution and chaos of West Africa, along with those fleeing Eritrea, in East Africa, and Afghanistan. Europeans Seek to Use Force Against Smugglers at Sea 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z His journey to destitution three years ago involved violence, divorce, illness and eviction in Concord, a nearby town. 'No app for that': tech-rich San Francisco's intractable homelessness 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z There is no question of not going, if, as in the case of the Afghans, your other options are returning to a Taliban-threatened Afghanistan or a life of destitution under Iranian ayatollahs. The Cost of a New Life in Europe 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Migrant charities warn that this will force families into destitution. Crisis mismanagement 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z To prevent destitution, we built a Social Security system to provide protections against loss of wages because of disability, retirement or loss of a spouse. Social Security’s Disability Insurance program does not need structural changes 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps because he is a farmer in a country where agriculture is an industry of destitution. Who's Really Killing the Lions of Zimbabwe? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z These autocratic leaders disregard the premises of their own constitutions; thousands of journalists and political dissidents languish in their dungeon prisons and millions of people continue to face the destitution that plagues their daily existence. As millions of Africans watch Obama, will he bring hope to refugees like me? | Dogo Aba Bora 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Thousands of Syrian children have become farm labourers in vegetable fields and warehouses, the destitution and misery of their displacement prompting them to enter a workforce where they are subject to abuse and exploitation. Adults before their time, Syria’s refugee children toil in the fields of Lebanon 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Moving from peasant destitution to a modern industralised economy in only a few decades really is possible. Don't Believe The Chinese Economic Statistics: Except The Ones about The Crash Perhaps 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z “You candy-coat it. All these contemporary subjects—violence, war, destitution, depression, unhappiness—you make them palatable by making them sweet. And that’s my trick.” Behind TIME's Plastic Surgery Cover With Miles Aldridge 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet Kotobuki is an altogether different world: a squalid district, it is a pit stop for local Japanese on their way to destitution. Struggling 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Outside the capital, pockets of grinding rural poverty exist and a discriminated Roma minority remains mired in an even deeper circle of destitution. The Czech Minister, the Mistress and the Gold Bars 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Prior to that, many senior citizens and the very poor and disabled faced destitution or even death with no means to pay for health care. Kentucky editorial roundup 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z In contemplating this human inferno one should try to imagine one’s family, especially one’s children, condemned to such destitution and deprivation. India: The Road To Jaipur (And Back) -- Challenges of Destitution And Infrastructure 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Some of those factors seem obvious: Living in destitution in an affluent nation is strongly associated with unhappiness. New study questions trope that conservatives are happier than liberals 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The grim alternative is a future drifting toward further destitution, death and destruction. The Devil in the Donetsk Deal Details 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Even then I think I might complain for those people living in peasant destitution are doing so because of the absence of markets. Nick Stern Is Wrong; Climate Change Is Not The Largest Market Failure The World Has Ever Seen 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z As far as I am concerned the major economic problem we face today is that billions of people on the planet are dirt poor, still stuck in peasant destitution. Memo To Larry Summers; Middle Class Stagnation Is The Outcome Of The Most Successful Economic Policy Ever 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z If the slurs endure in some quarters, so, too, does a grinding destitution: In Dallas County, of which Selma is the county seat, 36 percent of residents live in poverty, nearly double the statewide rate. Film Shows a Selma Some Would Rather Not Revisit 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Their country won independence in 2011 after decades of rebellion against the mainly Muslim north, aggravating the destitution of most of its people. The Christmas fighting season 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z When everyone is the property of the state then destitution and mass murder are not illogical outcomes. What Free Marketeers Can Learn About Inequality From George Orwell's Time Living Down and Out 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “It is a collective betrayal against men, women and children inside Syria, who are living in danger and destitution and are in acute need of assistance.” Fewer Syrians able to flee as neighboring countries limit entry 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It began with the travelled elite, boomed within the middle class that was hired by multinational companies, and trickled to the vast majority hoping to escape their destitution but unable to afford private English education. The Problem With The English Language In India 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z She isn’t brainwashed or stupid — when given the choice between an emotionally abusive man and destitution, she chose the man. 50 Years Later: Why 'My Fair Lady' Is Better Than You Remember 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z China needs to see considerably more economic growth and energy production if it is to bring the bulk of its population up to levels of consumption we’d still consider destitution in the U.S. Poor Countries Shouldn’t Sacrifice Growth to Fight Climate Change 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Why not wait till experiencing the pathetic conditions in vast slums and the abject destitution of rural Indians? Readers Comments: China's Anti-counterfeit Mission; India; Twitter Patrol 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Iyengar was the eleventh of thirteen children born into a poor South Indian family; after his father’s death, when he was eight years old, they neared destitution. Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z In Charles Dickens' England paupers funerals were reserved for those suffering extreme destitution, but they are not consigned to the past. 'Pauper funerals' on the rise 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Once the well-intended humanitarian aid runs dry, they will again be vulnerable to the very same societal evils — destitution and gangs, but this time in the U.S. — that drove many of them north. It’s a complicated situation on the Texas border 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z "This is going to render our people into destitution including women and children." Why is khat about to be banned? 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z To the point that if the poor countries don’t in fact industrialise, if they linger in poverty and destitution then climate change itself isn’t going to be much of a problem. The Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Morally Responsible For Carbon Emissions 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z He is working with Detroit to straighten its books and forestall destitution for pensioners. For Christie, a Narrative Loses Currency 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z They had never known palaces or had a whiff of luxury, having spent half a century between poverty and destitution, exile and prison. Lyudmila Ulitskaya: “The Fugitive.” 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z The judge ruled freezing payment levels amounted to "a reduction in real terms from what was regarded in 2007 as the bare minimum level necessary to avoid destitution". May attacked over asylum 'poverty' 2014-04-10T11:09:19Z Cardinal Nichols repeated his view that it was "a disgrace" that people continued to suffer destitution in a country as rich as the UK. Church leaders say poor 'have value' 2014-04-06T18:51:40Z “The U.N. resolution is not about keeping people one millimeter from the brink of starvation and destitution. We want the full realization of all their needs,” says Gunness. For Syrians, Social Media Is More Useful than the U.N. Security Council 2014-03-24T20:41:47Z Inside there was a shocking picture of destitution. Life as an east European migrant 2014-03-21T17:04:25Z The i says councils are warning that thousands of people are facing destitution because of the removal of a £350m hardship fund. Ukraine fallout on the front pages 2014-02-24T00:15:13Z Archbishop Nichols warned the reforms were leaving people in "destitution" by the removal of a "safety net" and labelled the situation a "disgrace". Profile: Archbishop Vincent Nichols 2014-02-22T03:06:25Z Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of Catholics in England and Wales, said it was "a disgrace" there were people in Britain living in destitution. Church leaders say poor 'have value' 2014-04-06T18:51:40Z Earlier this month, he called the coalition's welfare reforms a "disgrace" that had left vulnerable people facing "hunger and destitution". Vincent Nichols to become cardinal 2014-02-22T04:49:08Z Those on the left argue that welfare programs are necessary to prevent destitution and suffering, especially in bad economic times, and that the stereotype of the lazy aid recipient is simply wrongheaded. Hong Kong's Welfare Twist 2014-01-20T08:50:22Z The government's apparent inability to respond adequately to widespread destitution will enable warlords to increase their influence at a time of uncertain security as foreign forces hand control to Afghans this year. Thousands of Afghans face cold, hungry winter as aid goes missing 2014-01-17T21:15:03Z The irony, says Mr Kumar, is that Vedanta only set up here because of government pressure to boost development - after a nationwide outcry 20 years ago about famine and destitution in the surrounding Kalahandi area. Do tribal rights trump development? 2014-01-10T01:43:38Z But civil liberties campaigners say the proposals amount to "double punishment for the poor" and risk pushing people into "homelessness and destitution". Riot eviction threat 'excessive' 2014-01-07T12:37:10Z The destitution nurtures an epidemic of violent crime. Mandela's Homeland Still Suffers From Neglect 2013-12-14T04:05:20Z But leaving all these children in poverty and destitution and economic hardship really does affect our future economy that we’re trying to build. Rand Paul’s patronizing excuse for screwing the poor 2013-12-10T13:30:00Z Guaranteed Income does not motivate or inspire of its own, only prevents despair and destitution. A government-guaranteed basic income: The cheque is in the mail 2013-11-19T17:19:48Z What is made is the wealth to lift people up out of that destitution. Why Gates Is Wrong About Poverty And Development And Zuckerberg Is Right 2013-11-02T16:58:00Z The game had allowed him to graduate from Louisiana Tech, earn a good living and escape the destitution of his native Lafourche Parish. For too long, sports journalists glossed over football’s violence. I was one of them. 2013-10-18T14:44:00Z "Their destitution is accompanied by social problems that demand a comprehensive solution." Israel's Arab Bedouin citizens feel betrayed by eviction plan 2013-08-28T10:12:40Z Unions say that the list forced thousands of workers and their families into destitution as work dried up – leaving many without work for decades. Construction industry blacklisting is unacceptable, warns Vince Cable 2013-07-28T16:38:06Z Unions say that the list forced thousands of workers and their families into destitution as work dried up. Calls for investigation into Crossrail 'blacklisting' claims 2013-07-23T11:02:19Z For much of what is wrong with the world is that some one third to near a half is still stuck in the vileness of historical peasant destitution. Why Gates Is Wrong About Poverty And Development And Zuckerberg Is Right 2013-11-02T16:58:00Z A Red Cross worker greets a mother and child fleeing civil war in Syria, at the British Red Cross's destitution centre in Hackney. In Pictures: We will shrink you 2013-06-18T05:35:28Z Preserving the credit for all legal immigrants is crucial for fairness and keeping families out of destitution. Editorial: Immigration Reform Headwinds in the Senate 2013-06-08T18:41:57Z Even worse, the spirit of the deceased is believed to torment any recalcitrant family, inflicting on them various disasters, from disease to destitution. Igbo burials: How Nigeria will bid farewell to Achebe 2013-05-23T04:46:52Z His wife died suddenly of cancer a few years ago and it sent him into a downward spiral of binge drinking and destitution. Do white South Africans have a future? 2013-05-19T23:54:51Z Irish Americans ashamed of the poverty, destitution and sometimes notorious behavior of famine Irish refugees in the mid-19th century dropped the “Mc” or the “O” from their names. Tsarnaev’s uncle experiences an immigrant’s shame 2013-04-19T16:42:00Z The worst is that it is a mendacious stigmatisation of a system that is all that stands between the majority of claimants and destitution. From welfare to banks, fairness is the key 2013-04-06T23:06:13Z They may find it a reasonable action once destitution is relieved by the churches carrying their fair share of the burden rather than leaching on those who must pay. Amid Economic Crisis, Spain Ponders Taxing Catholic Church Property 2012-07-17T12:35:00Z With the collapse of its vibrant offshore banking system now the price of financial assistance, Cyprus's 800,000-strong population, almost overnight, faces economic destitution, mass unemployment and plummeting living standards. Cyprus crisis: 'This is the darkest week in our history since the 1974 invasion' 2013-03-23T19:07:21Z And many of those the government boasts of rescuing from destitution were brought from just below the poverty line to just above it. Social spending in Brazil: The end of poverty? 2013-02-28T18:07:50Z The average British citizen – the average – is three pay cheques away from destitution. Inequality for All – another Inconvenient Truth? 2013-02-02T21:00:01Z There are people on the edge of destitution. Insight: Spain bank rescue signals legal battle for duped savers 2012-10-16T09:34:42Z "FACING DESTITUTION" The United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said in August that the million Syrians uprooted by the violence face destitution. Syria's displaced million brace for bleak winter 2012-10-12T19:15:26Z Running seemed his best chance to escape destitution, and he began dreaming of representing Kenya in marathons overseas. How a Blind Kenyan Paralympian Triumphed 2012-08-24T08:05:33Z People avoid them since they call attention to a reality no one wants to acknowledge — a reality grounded in destitution. SchoolBook: When Will We Address the Needs in High-Needs Schools? 2012-08-16T13:28:22Z "While tourists are welcome, migrants and asylum seekers face a hostile environment, where they may be subject to detention in inhuman and degrading conditions, risk destitution and xenophobic violence." Greek police ignore rising attacks on migrants: HRW 2012-07-10T08:02:36Z With a surging economy and a prominent place on the world stage, Brazil was the country poised for greatness while remained mired in bloodshed and destitution. Group of 20 Meets in a Mexico Outperforming Brazil 2012-06-18T01:08:57Z The extreme destitution, which was one of its most fertile causes, was met by Christian charity. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The people came to subsist almost entirely on potatoes and herrings; and in 1846, when the potato blight began its ravages, nearly universal destitution ensued—embracing, over the islands generally, 70% of the inhabitants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z You examine into his home life, and you find that he is leaving his old parents upon the very verge of destitution. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z This was a somewhat favorite illustration of Miss Barrington,—either implying that the commodity was an essential to human life, or the use of it an emblem of extreme destitution. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z One prominent supporter of the tough welfare law is worried that it may have increased destitution among the most disadvantaged families. Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit 2012-04-08T02:00:54Z On the contrary, the cry of spiritual destitution daily goes up from parishes and communities which have no pastors. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In the latter year the Seven Years’ War broke out, and Heyne was once more in a state of destitution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The destitution, the economic weakness, the slow progress of his native land were a torture to his conscience. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z When the poor woman was in great destitution she thought of that husband’s mother, who was in easy circumstances, and passed off her second child Mary as a boy, thereby obtaining some pecuniary assistance. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z And indeed gross sensuality, and a destitution of high and spiritual views, characterize his whole work. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Here he found the Indians in great destitution, and in a frame of mind which would have inclined them to peace but for the secret encouragement they received from the French. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Mr. Snuffers says he shouldn't wonder if that unfortnate step should take the Hay Scales from him and leave me and this here innocent darlin' babe in a state of destitution. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z A position which he obtained in 1808 as musical director of a new theatre in Bamberg availed him little, as within a very short time the theatre was bankrupt and Hoffmann again reduced to destitution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The room was scantily furnished, and bore an air of extreme poverty, amounting almost to absolute destitution. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The destitution of the Gentile world is put into a single word, when the apostle says: “You were at that time separate from Christ”—without a Christ, either come or coming. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z So there was no actual destitution in the village. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z The most important of them is the overcrowding of human beings, especially when combined with deficient ventilation, destitution, and want of personal cleanliness. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z I incline to think that extreme destitution induced this recourse to a practice almost obsolete, as it probably gave rise to the personal robberies, unattended with violence, which have been recently rife in Rome itself. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z It can not enter into the head of man to conceive the horrible contrasts of large cities—the dreadful destitution of large cities—the awful solitude of a crowd. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z And the trade thrives, and the swindling practisers thereof flaunt in silks, while honest virtue staves off destitution by making "hickory" shirts at eight cents a piece. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z Next with drinks they style "teetotal" he his manhood must degrade; Swilling effervescent syrups—"ice-cream-soda," "raspberry-ade," Koumiss tempts his jaded palate—payment he's obliged to bilk— Then, reduced to destitution, finds forgetfulness in—milk! Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z Great importance has been attached, in particular, to the scarcity of food and to destitution as powerful factors in favoring the production of the disease. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z With illiteracy rates over 40 percent and an estimated poverty rate of nearly 50 percent, Pakistanis rightly hold their government responsible for their destitution. At War Blog: A Granddaughter Returns to Pakistan 2012-03-05T20:15:09Z What a contrast did the busy imagination draw between all the fine things that young lady was to have and her own destitution! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z His wife had got a boll of meal from the destitution fund, but besides that, she had only two barrels of potatoes. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Darkness, and dampness, and destitution were within, and without were fears. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Is never primarily developed by destitution, squalor, or defective ventilation. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z This command, in their then state of destitution, overwhelmed them with dismay, and they made strenuous efforts, but without success, to gain some assistance in these trying circumstances. The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) 2012-03-01T03:00:25.290Z "I began to think something of that sort," said Mrs. Danvers; "but, my dear young lady, what can have brought you to this terrible state of destitution?" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z He was married, with five young children, and they had been living exclusively on potatoes, occasionally with fish, for three months, until they got a half boll of meal from a destitution fund. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z They soon had the planks of a good ship beneath them instead of a treacherous floe; curious but kind friends beset them, instead of threatening bergs; and every comfort succeeded to utter destitution. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Thus, may it not be false economy to make absolute destitution and homelessness a preliminary condition of parochial help? Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Again do we find falling prices and misery and destitution inseparable companions. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z All his hopes seemed doomed to disappointment, and destitution stared him in the face; yet one more trial he determined to make, although that one he promised should be the last. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z When the destitution meal was being distributed he got three stones, and his mother an equal quantity. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z "Support is given throughout the asylum process to families with children who are facing destitution." Charity fears for child migrants 2012-02-24T02:16:06Z Haunted by suicidal thoughts and struggling with destitution and family tragedy, the despair portrayed in pastel and paint was the artist's own. Munch?s Scream and the art of anguish 2012-02-24T00:57:36Z From such hardships and exposures, and the prevailing destitution of clothing at the worst season of the year, the men had become sick and disheartened. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z At the close of the war, great destitution prevailed by reason of the losses in men the town had sustained; and as usual a lottery was resorted to for the benefit of the survivors. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z She has half a barrel on hand at present, and about a stone of meal, the remains of what was got from the destitution fund. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The report defines destitution as "the lack of regular access to essential resources such as food, clothing, toiletries, medicine and a place to live". Charity fears for child migrants 2012-02-24T02:16:06Z The admiral hoped by means of this one-third to abate the mutinous spirit of his men, who had received no pay for a long period, and who were, moreover, in a state of actual destitution. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z It is a melancholy fact that the man who has risen from destitution to riches is usually cruel to the poor: one would hope and believe the contrary, but this is unhappily the case. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Manly died in Boston, in 1793, in circumstances nearly allied to destitution. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Whatever reasons were given for it, no one questioned their destitution. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The linen manufacture for a while prospered, and afforded a limited relief in a few places; but tillage was declining, and destitution was all round. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z So great is the destitution of fuel that even now people are out cutting the stalks of thistles which appear above the snow. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z I don't know how she manages it, but she has hardly crossed the threshold before it seems to grow brighter inside the dark garret where live the children of destitution. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z As compared with the wealth of those farther south when visited by Sir A. H. Layard and the Baron de Bode, their condition is one of destitution. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The unshod soul, shuffling through the mire of degradation, acquires from the lower stratum of his environment the infection of a spiritual destitution that lowers moral vitality to the minimum. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z He regarded the laws with despair, and piteously bemoaned the destitution and degradation in which the people were fixed. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z Seeing the inequalities among men, knowing of the destitution and crime, these men were willing to sacrifice, not only their own liberties, but the liberties of all. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z I admit that all the crime, ignorance, destitution, and superstition in that country were produced by the Catholic Church. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Even by the standards of destitution in these camps, Mr. Mohammad’s story is a hard-luck one; Khan was the eighth of his nine children to die. In Grip of Cold, Afghan Family Buries 8th Child 2012-02-08T21:47:25Z It is difficult to know whether the real want of work is now, or not, so very much greater than usual—in face of positive affirmations and negations; there is, at any rate, immense destitution. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z And no one understood better how to beg, how to turn on the limelight and bring out in melodramatic relief the enormity of her need and destitution. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z A subscription is forthwith got up for her benefit, and the son's death is likely to be the means of saving the mother from destitution. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The charge has been made, over and over again, that Thomas Paine died in want and destitution— that he was an abandoned pauper—an outcast with- out friends and without money. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z I remember I noticed, when visiting London, that the citizens there seemed also to find a certain satisfaction in telling me about London destitution, as though it were something to be proud of. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z I could in some measure enter into his feelings, as I had travelled over the vast field of destitution in the midst of which he is placed. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Only 10 feet away from this destitution, young Pabrai felt as if there was an unbridgeable gulf between him and the caste of Indians known as "the untouchables." A Disciple of Warren Buffett's Finds His Own Way of Giving Back 2012-01-12T12:00:00Z Instead of being burdened by his destitution, he was relieved by it. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z He himself says: "The deplorable destitution which I recently observed during a visitation of the churches has impelled and constrained me to prepare this Catechism or 'Christian Doctrine' in such a small and simple form." Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history 2012-01-12T03:00:13.267Z On a closer inspection, however, they exhibit utter destitution and degraded poverty. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Life is all a vagary of Luck,— Still, for thirty long years of genteel destitution He'd been writing State Papers, which means he had stuck Some heads and some tails to much circumlocution. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Mr. Roberts adds that Kan-Wang had refused to give up his clothes, books, and journals, and that he had been left in a state of destitution. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Food, raiment, and money mocked the man half-mad—mad with destitution. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The law protects them from aggression, and they have none of the fear, which besets members of civilized communities, of destitution in their declining years. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z “Yes, sire,” replied Hāfiz, “and it is by such acts of generosity that I have brought myself to such a state of destitution that I have now to solicit your bounty.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Memory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was all the more bitter in the nineteenth, because the destitution of the peasantry was increasing hopelessly. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z The miserable being had obviously fallen a victim to want and destitution. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Hogarth's 'Gin Lane' was scarcely an exaggeration of the destitution and misery that attended this national vice. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The effect of these two measures was to reduce the Post Office servants to a state of destitution not very far short of that from which Pitt had rescued them some thirty years before. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z And that man, after making her unaccustomed to work by a life of idleness and dissipation, leaves her, in most cases, with no resource against destitution! Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z An unexpected flood or fever can push a poor family into utter destitution, or the muscular arms of loan sharks. Helping the poor to save: Small wonder 2011-12-08T16:17:06Z He, therefore, had to live sparingly to avoid being reduced to a state of destitution, there being a bar against his use of the capital and of a part of the income. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z The way those eight pounds were slipping through her fingers was marvellous; when three weeks had gone she had scarcely thirty shillings left, between her and destitution. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z It is hard to conceive a case of greater misery and destitution than his. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Competition produces destitution; this is a fact shown by statistics. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z As for me, nothing save the Personal Element stood between me and destitution. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Our breadstuffs from England kept back, The sequel must be destitution. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z The measure shows less severe destitution, but a bit more overall poverty; fewer poor children, but more poor people over 65. Census Measures Those Not Quite in Poverty but Struggling 2011-11-19T03:29:25Z While cartel figures may hand out expensive gifts, Mr. Marthen Torres is providing what he calls “social services” — free cleanses to those who have been extorted to the point of destitution. Catemaco Journal: Mexicans Turn to Witchcraft to Ward Off Drug Cartels 2011-11-02T00:05:31Z After running an infamous career of vice, both in England and France, abandoning his wife to disease and total destitution in Manchester, with two children and without a farthing, in a strange lodging-house? The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z Several of the papers of the South openly and unhesitatingly approved of the methods of their prison depletion, and gloated over the fearful destitution and mortality. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The man is really ill, and there are too evident signs of destitution. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Yet are there cases on record in which men and women, for some worthy principle, have cheerfully welcomed absolute privation, or patiently endured the destitution of all things. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Prostrated on a couch, he was suffering from a hemorrhage of the lungs of a few days previous, with evidences all around of a state of extreme destitution. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z But Sch�rer thought more of the destitution of his own army than of the fruits of success, and contented himself with resuming possession of the Riviera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Yet this might have been foretold from the horrible condition, the pre-arranged destitution of the hospital. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z He is always trembling on the confines of destitution; and the instant he is without work he is on the brink of starvation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z "I have been much saddened, ma'am," he was saying, "to observe the destitution of Miss Lydia Sampson." Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z A servant girl told the venerable Sister Anthony that a poor lodger was dying in destitution in the west end of the city. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The first white settlement in Western Iowa was made in the year 1847, by a company of Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, who had been exiled from Illinois in poverty and destitution. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z After remaining some time in utter destitution, the royal prot�g� wrote to request an early supply of cash, naming for what purposes. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z And during the last three months, the weekly voluntary gathering of his brother workmen, or the allowance from his club, has sufficed; and he died without destitution actually coming to his door. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z “Thirty days of misery,” he said, recounting the thirst, hunger, heat and destitution. Niger Feels Economic Impact of Qaddafi?s Downfall in Libya 2011-09-28T02:27:21Z He was obliged to leave his place, sell his two gray horses, and everything he had in the world; and he fell into complete destitution. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The army is in a state of alarming destitution; I have still great difficulties to surmount, but they are surmountable: misery has excused want of discipline, and without discipline never a victory. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z The result is large families and much destitution, but with all that one seldom sees any Jewish beggars, their system for relief of poverty being so admirable. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z He sees destitution so frequently connected with imprudence, laziness, and crime, that he is apt to believe that the union is indissoluble. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Thus, in sorrow and destitution, Tekakwitha passed a dreary winter among the ruins of Gandawague, doing her best as usual to put things in order. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z To take merely one instance, consider Havelock Ellis’s remarks concerning “the ever-widening circles of anguish and misery and destitution which every fatal bullet imposes on humanity.” The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The King thought he would be utterly ruined, so great was the destitution. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z While the colony had nothing better than log cabins or cloth shanties, "there was no destitution," though there might be no luxury. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z While the destitute confirmed pauper would annoy, insult, and extract relief, by the scandal of so much squalid destitution lying and crouching about the overseer's door. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Everywhere around him was dirt, disease, destitution, and despair. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Eliminating destitution would prevent the poverty of one generation from passing automatically to the next, and could be accomplished by establishing national minimums, including a national minimum wage -- the essence of the modern welfare state. Webb, Churchill and the Birth of the Welfare State: Sylvia Nasar 2011-09-08T00:22:04Z He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific, or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the cocoanuts and breadfruits. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Nothing but evidential destitution could rely upon the expression in the "Epistle of Polycarp" to show acquaintance with Acts. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z Her husband lived and died a pauper, was buried as a pauper, and his widow has determined to make the most of her destitution, and extract the utmost farthing from the reluctant guardians. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Through yielding to the influence of feelings that were too susceptible, my father beheld his family suddenly plunged into destitution. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z Terrible destitution! so there are no people more greedy for their neighbors' goods. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z The tragic story of poor Jo illustrated the poverty, the ignorance, the destitution, the hopelessness, the barrenness, and the dreadful environment of a London street boy. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z After her return home, the destitution of her father gave a new impulse to this levelling idea. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z As regards the fact of destitution, the latter case is the worst; but the frugal widow suffers the greatest deprivation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Here seems to be a chance of eating ourselves out of poverty, of dining ourselves out of destitution. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z Not all the hunger and thirst of downright destitution is so hard to bear to a proud spirit as the insults of a petty creditor. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Anxious women with willing hands and loving hearts rushed eagerly to every place which sickness or destitution or the ravages of war invade, enduring sacrifices, displaying unsurpassed fortitude and heroism. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Then he went down again into the street, confident in his destitution, and watched, forgetting the hunchback in the excitement of the spectacle. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z I have had experience in regard to the destitution of souls that know not God's peace. Niece Catherine 2011-07-30T02:00:13.927Z It is true that I myself am not in absolute destitution.—But what of that, my friends? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z It was in fact the very Bible Lady Agnes had purchased of the gardener’s wife when left in destitution by her husband’s imprisonment. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Those who were fortunate in having a stock of household necessaries were generous in the extreme to their less wealthy neighbors, but the destitution was terrible. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Their abject poverty and destitution of the common comforts of life, seems to cramp all their energies, and dishearten them from any attempt to better the condition of their children. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Everything was ready and according to the proper order, notwithstanding the great destitution; the white cloth, the goblet of vinegar, the hard egg, the horseradish, the unleavened bread, and the flesh of the goat. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z Poverty and destitution, unhappily, are familiar spectres at home, as elsewhere. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z I could see on his brow the fresh traces of a struggle still going on between dignity and destitution. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z Few, however, have dared to follow the experiment to the uttermost ends of destitution. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z There is probably no country in the world, where there is such utter destitution of good faith and common honesty, on the part of those who contrive to secure the offices of trust. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z As the poor in China, India and other emerging economies escape destitution, they can afford to load up their plates more than ever. Population Growth Has Driven Up the Food Price to Alarming Levels 2011-07-15T02:15:00Z He had drained the cup of poverty and destitution to the very dregs; but the tide had turned at last. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z “Mind you ask for anything you want, Mr Wagram, for I conclude you’ve come aboard in a state of temporary and complete destitution.” The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Some of them died, and those who were rescued from that fate were brought away from the island in an utter state of destitution, emaciated in body and almost silly in intellect. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Otherwise, with their present character, liberty, after being first summed up by them in the privilege of doing nothing, in pillage and massacre, would inevitably end in wretchedness and destitution. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z “We are one harvest away from a major food crisis which will push tens of millions more poor people into hunger and destitution,” said Marie Brill, representing ActionAid. Group of 20 Agrees on Steps to Mitigate Food Price Swings 2011-06-23T11:34:00Z "It is hard to understand the logic of a man-made policy which deliberately impoverishes so many and condemns hundreds of thousands of potentially productive people to a life of destitution," Gunness said. Jobless Gaza enters 5th year of Israeli blockade 2011-06-13T21:12:33Z And I might cite a hundred other instances of this destitution were it necessary! A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z Your wife, in her destitution, resolved to go to Alexandria, to her brother. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Other dwellings must be built, new habits must be contracted; the peasant is soon reduced to destitution, and finds himself obliged to accept whatever terms are offered him. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z And despite our destitution, both of us got married just two months apart in 1997. Intrepid reporter 2011-05-31T22:00:54Z With each winter the officers have had to face the prospect of something like famine and destitution, well knowing that they must rely on their own hampered efforts, if they were to get through. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z Before he was able to take pen in hand again, he was reduced to something approaching destitution. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z In her destitution, I do not know but Mrs. Carpenter might have put up with even this plan; but what was she to do with Rotha? A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z All outward indications of the accident were over; the bodies of the poor sufferers were buried; the widows, mothers, orphans, had begun to realise their destitution. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Therefore, the best that could be done was to assist those families on the brink of destitution by furnishing them free that most basic of human necessities, food. 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