Sentence examples for dependent on charity from inspiring English sources
For now, he is dependent on charity — and his family in Haiti is dependent on him.
But the ideals were slow to reach the poor, who were all too often dependent on charity.
When King Henry II came to the throne, Rustici's salary was canceled and he died in obscurity, dependent on charity, in Tours in 1554.
Ms. Curran said the recession had made it harder to raise money just when the austerity program is expected to make the poorest more dependent on charity.
Life has been torture since then, as my mother was left in a hellish catch-22 – homeless, unable to work without her husband's permission, without access to healthcare for her baby, and dependent on charity from those who took pity.
A study published this summer by West Cheshire food bank with academics from Chester and Oxford Universities found that benefit delays, which accounted for 20% of all referrals, typically triggered a crisis that left food bank clients dependent on charity food parcels for four weeks.
The hardest thing about working at a charity for asylum seekers is seeing the increase in numbers of very vulnerable people who are destitute and starving, with no rights to work or claim benefits and nowhere to live, leaving them dependent on charities like ours or vulnerable to being exploited by strangers.
This focus would ensure that the state does not remain completely dependent on charities.
You don't even solve the problem by being dependent entirely on charity, as the long history of loathsome donors to the Roman Catholic clergy has made clear.
Most local people are deeply dependent on private charity.
