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Despite the fact that the destitution still lingers in my mind, trips like these strengthen the morale within a squad.
More than two million other people from Darfur are in extreme destitution, immediately requiring aid.
We know nothing of course, but we do not remotely know even this, and mere assertion in no way ameliorates our destitution.
If in two months stories of starvation and destitution continue to emerge out of Aceh, severe criticism will rain down on the government.
They are by far the largest group amongst the fifth of India's population who live in extreme poverty and destitution.
They live in destitution while the land yields billions of dollars annually to the people who took it away.
Unfortunately, she does not have the skills to pay the bills, and her farm quickly slips into destitution.
Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.
She was celebrated for her poetic talent, her stunning beauty during her youth, her trifling with amorous men, and her suffering from decrepitude and destitution in old age.
Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start.
The author cites Victorian novels showing that a smoky hearth symbolized the warmth and comfort of a loving family, while a fireless house indicated destitution.
When abusive behaviour is deeply entrenched in our communities it is not the material destitution, the social ills and historical legacy that fuel the abuse epidemics.
Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution.
But he also discovered there the great destitution of a martyrized and dehumanized population during the dark period of the Khmer Rouges.
They also praised the expansion of the activities of the institutions in the social sector and micro-credit, as a vehicle of easing destitution.
Others, regardless of their wounds, destitution, or dead-end occupations received disability benefits, but no invitation to retrain for new careers.
Threatening us with homelessness and destitution will not create the 2m jobs needed to deal with mass unemployment.
Last week MPs said the list had deprived thousands of people of work and driven some families to destitution.
It is clear that poverty, destitution and exclusion remain considerable obstacles to universal access to such services.
While some of these practices now belong to history, they have nevertheless left entire peoples in complete destitution without any reparation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If once a national system sufficient for destitution was inaugurated, the man who will not work could be penalised.
They all knew, though the widow would not own it, that destitution was at her door.
There was thus always a fringe of peasant families on the verge of destitution.
I do not know if I ever felt such an utter sense of destitution as at that moment.
Nor is there anything which is more characteristic of destitution than this sentiment.
Suffering from shipwreck and great destitution, it was necessary for him to economize, as much as possible, in his expenditures.
When Edgar, at the age of two years, was orphaned, the family was in the utmost destitution.
But if you will not come, take my word for the state of their destitution.
Abundance on one side of the Minch, destitution on the other!
On every story there was the same destitution, dirt, and promiscuity.
How can you raise the child of destitution and guilt to your own rank?
I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded.
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 coco-nuts and bread-fruit.
Laurence was continually finding some touching case of destitution, and begging the Bhaers to take pity on the child, and he would gladly pay a trifle for its support.
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