"Being close to people experiencing that degree of hardship gave them an increased sense of responsibility and pride," he says.
"Being close to people experiencing that degree of hardship has given my players an increased sense of responsibility and pride," says the former Manchester City captain.
In an age when the term crisis is applied to almost every degree of hardship, no matter how trivial or petty, its meaning is often lost.
Trusts generally look for students facing some degree of hardship, but the grants they provide usually reach a maximum of £1,000, and therefore cannot be relied on as a primary source of income.
Make that "barely alive" -- for Humphreys is meticulous, too, in outlining the degree of hardship that afflicts the civilian population as supply lines to the South are cut off and exhausted soldiers abandon their regiments and forage off the land.
"It is considered that the standard of living conditions, employment and education prospects available to your client and his family in Nigeria is something that could reasonably be expected to be overcome, even with a degree of hardship for one or more of the family members concerned".
It's difficult for LGBTQ people to exist in these areas LGBTQ people of color are facing an even more severe degree of hardship.
When politicians come to Washington not to solve our immediate pressing problems, not to compromise, but to promote, above the public interest, a narrow political agenda -- when they do so regardless of the degree of hardship in the current economy -- then I'm afraid we shouldn't be surprised at our inability to self-correct.
