Sentence examples for a beggar for from inspiring English sources

It had been desperate for investment after disastrous postindependence economic policies reduced the nation to a beggar for foreign handouts and loans.

Instead, he was sent by bus to India, then by plane to Ethiopia and Togo, where he lived as a beggar for a year and was reduced to a walking skeleton, before finally his family helped him to bribe his way into Melilla in the back of a car.

When he takes over on October 1, Lord Judge, as he will be, will find himself not only a top judge, but an administrator, a negotiator, a beggar for government funding, a stout defender of judges under attack, and the face of the judiciary to the outside world.

484e9ddc-4799-4bb3-9e29-8fc3625a50ec Most artountsayf modern art say, basically, one thing: the West creates while the world waits, like a grateful beggar, for a nourishing handout.

★ Asia Society and Museum: 'Iran Modern' (through Jan . 5 Most accounts of modern art say, basically, one thing: the West creates while the world waits, like a grateful beggar, for a nourishing handout.

Harold eked out an existence as a homeless beggar for nearly 50 years, and eventually died on a bench at Waterloo station in London.

She was reported to have said, "I feel like a beggar asking for such things".

Dr Baumard's volunteers read about a beggar asking for alms, and a passer-by who did not give them.

At some points in his speech, he struck the tone of a beggar asking for compassion and acquittal.

"At some point, Turkey could be ready to give up its frustrating and humiliating role as a beggar pleading for membership in the West and to resume its much more impressive and elevated historical role as the principal Islamic interlocutor and antagonist of the West".

The Cooder-assisted "A Dollar Short of Happy" is written from the perspective of a beggar looking for a buck: "City sidewalks, busy sidewalks/ Turn a darker gray/ Than any Russian playwright would allow," sings Lowe.