"These policies will bring penury to Greeks for generations to come.
An early-1980s tour, brought on by penury, was finally too much for his frail frame.
A law in California To give workers compensation Had brought the state to penury Amid much consternation.
For Thomas Chatterton, brought up in genteel penury in Bristol, his alter ego was Thomas Rowley, the medieval poet whose "works" he claimed to have discovered.
They voted against him in large numbers in October, in part because they were sick of the isolation and penury he had brought them.
It also brought death threats and near-penury to its indefatigable sponsor, a feisty octogenarian who follows his own drummer, usually with rum and Coke in hand.
The millennium development goals (MDGs) have driven "the most successful anti-poverty movement in history" and brought more than a billion people out of extreme penury, but their achievements have been mixed and the world remains deeply riven by inequality, the UN's final report (pdf) on the goals has concluded.
It also brought death threats, bomb attacks, government surveillance and near-penury to its indefatigable sponsor, a feisty octogenarian whose backbone was honed during World War II as a military photographer alongside Frank Capra and John Huston.
News of the survey has brought lamentations from the Society of Authors this weekend and tales of penury from several well-known writers, including the Carnegie medal-winning writer Mal Peet, who described his income from sales as "literally abject".
And that brought me here to what seems like a dream, being a published writer of sorts, after a decade of penury that stripped me of my confidence and, I believed, my talent and intellect.
