Sentence examples for A destitution from inspiring English sources

This section was built as a "Destitution Road" in the mid-19th century to provide work for the dispossessed and starving -- the potato famine struck here at the same time as it did in Ireland.

The freed slaves of Amity end up as starving castaways squatting on barren land — a destitution from which Miss July will be rescued, many years later, by Thomas Kinsman, her foundling son, who was taken away in infancy by Baptist missionaries to be raised in England.

It is time "the people" wake up and grow up, before they permanently drive this country into a destitution ditch.

What is associated with mortality, and morbidity, for many reasons, is poverty, and its many henchmen: hunger, thirst, struggle, and a destitution of resources.

Hodges-Wu nothatthat many asylum seekers' lack of access to toiletries, housing, and other basic necessities revealed a "destitution that you don't see in typical American experiences".

On the impoverished Isla Tierrabomba, Cartagena's lavish skyline gleaming in the distance, he coaxes a fisherman to proudly proclaim the triumph of happiness in a place of destitution -- an apt scene in a world growing increasingly polarized by the widening wealth gap.

Nor has he or the international community done anything to truly end the crisis in Ukraine, happy to continue this ignored war stuck in a purgatory of destitution where a distant people die to keep a geopolitical chess match afloat.

More than any other novel I know, "Iceland's Bell" recreates a world where Pieter Bruegel would have felt right at home, not merely in its fascination with bumblers (petty thieves, purblind watchmen) and grotesques (faceless lepers, hanging corpses), but also in its unearthly ability to find beauty in a landscape of destitution, wisdom in a congress of fools.

In the novel Shantaram, Linbaba's Mumbai is at once a place of glamour and destitution – a place where spectacular wealth and devastating poverty live side by side.

As part of an attempt to deal with rising poverty and destitution, a program pays homeless people $9 an hour for a daylong job cleaning up parts of the city.

In its continuing unofficial mission to prove that a poetry career need not condemn an author to a life of destitution, Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of its highly lucrative Kingsley and Kate Tufts poetry awards.