Sentence examples for abject circumstances from inspiring English sources

Last year Adam Granduciel, the founder, songwriter and frontman of the War on Drugs, emerged from abject circumstances – tour burnout, the collapse of a long-term relationship – with a triumphant album.

For years Sheridan fought on behalf of the Chagos islanders, who in 1971 were summarily removed to Mauritius, where many lived in abject circumstances, when the British government wished to hand Diego Garcia over to the Americans as a military base.

This is India's official poverty rate, but it counts only those in the most abject circumstances -- and even a cursory scan of India's human development indicators suggests more widespread deprivation.

In addition, Searcy points out, there are "Vietnamese families living mostly in poverty, in painfully abject circumstances, with two, three, sometimes four or five severely disabled children who now may be grown, in their 20s and 30s, who cannot take care of their own basic needs.

In Boston, Lincolnshire, a byword for tensions around immigration, people say that local market gardening businesses seized on newly arrived people who were prepared to live and work in the most abject of circumstances, and thereby cut the town in two.

Richardson explained how the family lived above the pub where Tiffany was brought up in "circumstances of abject squalor and degradation".

"There's far greater danger in the UK now of children being left in circumstances of abject neglect than there are of children being taken away from decent families.

"Because our culture so highly values... an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be".

"A cursory glance at the win/loss stats for all the previous England captains would seem to suggest that Cook is coming in for an unnecessary amount of flak on the back of an admittedly abject tour but with strongly mitigating circumstances (back-to-back Ashes series)," writes Adam Levine.

He still lives in circumstances most Americans would consider abject.

The circumstances that gave rise to the Cosa Nostra are dissected, from its roots in the abject poverty during Spanish rule to the assassination of prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992 and the birth of the anti-racket movement Addiopizzo in 2004.