Sentence examples for bereft of work from inspiring English sources

Bereft of work, they beg for change.

As for life as a day laborer, Carlos could not remember a February that had been so bereft of work.

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.

Now the area wears the familiar aspect of the war-ghetto: the shop-fronts smashed in, the streets bereft of men of working age (many are now in jail), and seemingly no administration at all (the ward leaders are also in jail).

While the state and formal institutions may demand "papers" for the crossing of some kinds of borders, migrants clearly find ways to circumvent these demands; this study showed that even migrants completely bereft of residence and work authorization have a non-zero probability of crossing the destination state's geographical border for a short visit to Senegal.

His mind was addled by the tedium and his body -- bereft of any aerobic work -- was soft.

Despite the difficulties over the annuity caused by the devaluation of 1811, the years 1813 14 were profitable ones for Beethoven, although nearly bereft of significant new works, for Beethoven's creativity had fallen precipitously after the romantic crisis of 1812.

He wrote that "Britain's wiping out of polytechnics in the 1990s and the subsequent suppression of 16-plus technical education was a disaster... It left industry bereft of trained skills and work ethic, and reliant on foreign migrants". Leaving aside the negative connotations of that last clause, I concur that lumping polytechnics and pre-19922) universitogetherether as all the same is unhelpful.

Have you ever tried to watch "A View to a Kill," a work so bereft of ideas that it chooses to employ Grace Jones as a special effect?

Acrobatics come into play; dancers, with support from others, flip high into the air, but the work is bereft of playfulness.

She says, "Often, the assumption is that good experimental avant-garde work is bereft of identity markers, and that lead-footed, autobiographical, woe-is-me, victim poetry is minority poetry".