Its churches -- having survived, in the last quarter century, Marxist rule, a civil war and the effects of a recent war between Ethiopia and Eritrea -- have grown impoverished, bereft of the tourists who sustained them.
He was not surprised that she should object, make a fuss, even weep (though a woman like Christa wouldn't have), but that she should really be damaged, that she should consider herself bereft of all that had sustained her and over something that had happened twelve years ago this he could not understand.
Almost entirely bereft of popular support, the guerrilla campaign flopped.
The intelligence community feels beleaguered and bereft of political support".
When her marriage ended, she found herself bereft of the routines that had sustained her.
Like their party of choice, they have helped sustain a presidency bereft of decency or larger purpose, a narcissistic cult of personality drenched in paranoia, self-indulgence, and self-pity.
The first volume, recording the Nazis' ascendance from 1933 to 1941, left Klemperer bereft of work, income, friends and family, barely sustained by his marriage to an "Aryan" but hobbled and humiliated by the yellow star that negated his conversion to Christianity.
The deep ocean floor was once thought to be a biological wasteland, bereft of the light and nutrients needed to sustain life.
Both parties have been bereft of policy based on principle.
Bereft of its blanket, the soil cannot gather the nutrients that sustain the trees.
