Sentence examples for abject living from inspiring English sources

The artist's last years were rather abject: living apart from his family, he was reduced to trying to sell his London drawings to the City Corporation, who turned him down.

They also contend that Paraguay's social welfare programs remain meager compared with antipoverty projects in neighboring countries, which have lifted tens of millions of people out of abject living conditions.

Unfortunately, Koolhaas does little to suggest how to extract the lessons of Lagos without perpetuating the abject living conditions that foster them.

Tomorrow afternoon and then again on Monday evening you can take an invigorating tour through several states of misery and squalor in "All Too Human," described as "Three Chronicles of Abject Lives".

And though Pygmies are scorned as subhuman by other Congolese (for their miniature bodies and their abject lives, impoverished even by the standards of one of the poorest countries on earth), they were seen as a source of coveted knowledge and resilience.

I've triumphed over: abject poverty, living in the projects, having very little money, being on food stamps and being on Medicaid.

The majority of Chagossians remained in Mauritius and the Seychelles, often living in abject poverty.

Zola spent most of the next two years unemployed and living in abject poverty.

Poor women struggle to feed numerous children while living in abject poverty.

"You've got billionaires at one end, and you've got people living in abject poverty".

Most of the asylum seekers in Calais, living in abject conditions, come from Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.