The phrase "abject deprivation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a severe and extreme lack of basic necessities or resources, often in a social or economic context.
Example: "The report highlighted the abject deprivation faced by families living in poverty-stricken areas, lacking access to food, clean water, and healthcare."
Alternatives: "extreme poverty" or "severe deprivation."
If they don't go on the pirate ships, it is implied, they will face the wrath of the ganglords as well as the abject deprivation and hopelessness that is their lot.
That figure, which has become a widely accepted yardstick of abject deprivation, was first derived by taking an average of the poverty lines the minimum income needed to satisfy basic needs of 15 of the world's poorest countries.It is also important to note that the World Bank has built some slack into its target.
Of the many interviews contained in the film, the words of art historian and psychotherapist John MacGregor are issued as a kind of challenge to the viewers: "[Judith Scott] has transformed her existence from one of total meaninglessness and abject deprivation to where there's no doubt at all that she's found meaning in this life of hers, something most of us never do manage".
Amnesty, quoting a U.N. report from 2006, described the region as suffering from "administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic conflict".
For half the world's children, a billion youngsters who live in abject poverty and deprivation, these are perhaps the "worst of times".
Despite its natural resources accounting for over 95% of Nigeria's proven gas and oil reserves [ 28], the Niger Delta suffers from administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth, squalor, and endemic conflict [ 29].
He lives in abject horror, suffering sleep deprivation, sexual assaults, beatings and threats against his mother's life and his own.
But let no one have any illusions: under these circumstances, Abbas won't be replaced by a new Palestinian leader who is more willing to make "peace" with Israel based on the kind of terms that Netanyahu and his ilk are offering -- terms that are tantamount to permanent disenfranchisement, deprivation of rights, and abject humiliation.
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.
Of all the abject illusions!
That was abject cowardice".
