Sentence examples for complete destitution from inspiring English sources

To both collect the debts and avoid driving these debtors into complete destitution, the law allows Social Security to withhold up to 65 percent of a benefit to cover unpaid child support — and to pay the recipient the rest.

In another Times article from 1899, "Help for Puerto Ricans," the governor of New York at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, said, "They have been in a moment reduced to complete destitution.

During the Depression, the widow of a merchant in nearby Camden who had been advancing credit to tenant farmers in the Bend foreclosed on their debts and ordered a raid, driving the community into complete destitution.

After welfare recipients hit their limits, it will just be too bad for them, their children, and the communities that must deal with the consequences if they lose their homes and are forced into complete destitution.

Adnan, his parents and his ten siblings fled the Syrian Arab Republic two months ago and arrived in the village of Sheikh Ayash in Akkar region, northern Lebanon, in complete destitution.

He died in a state of utter destitution and alcoholism.

A compassionate society will keep its most vulnerable from slipping into utter destitution and despair.

The hospice was perceived relieve utter destitution, although it was unable to meet all the expectations that patients had.

He was redeemed and then just ended up in destitution.

They were near to destitution.

Think food banks, evictions, and destitution.