Sentence examples for citizens misery from inspiring English sources

Members of B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, told the Washington Post that soldiers with the Israeli Defense Forces were in the neighborhood and aware of the citizens' misery.

The budget shrinking in Greece, Spain, and Portugal has increased citizens' misery.

But where many citizens see misery, investors see opportunity.

An agreement to bailout Greece may bring joy to the country and its millions of citizens, but misery to the financial speculators who bet against the euro.

When the top officials and their cronies in oil-rich countries, such as Angola and Gabon, put all the royalty income in their pockets and leave the national treasury empty, then the vast majority of citizens are trapped in misery.

Miserable pay rises have reduced the number of fellow citizens suffering the more serous misery of joblessness.

Among hardliners were the Irish and Portuguese ministers, both from governments that have imposed fiscal misery on their citizens.

For example short bursts of intense rainfall in Dhaka already cause huge traffic jams and misery for its citizens," he said.

Now the not-so-good governor has taken his hubris to new heights and the misery of Illinois citizens to new lows.

As it happens, many commentators are making great play with the fact that Osborne, while inflicting untold misery on vulnerable citizens with his mean-minded cuts, keeps missing those self-inflicted targets anyway.

The criticism serves party leaders' purposes in some ways, because it tends to underscore that China remains a poor country, unable — in their telling — to reduce pollution or raise the value of the renminbi without causing economic misery for its citizens.