Sentence examples for destitute citizens from inspiring English sources

The bathrooms have become so filthy, so overrun with drug users and prostitutes, that some of the city's most destitute citizens refuse to use them.

In Buenos Aires, the capital, destitute citizens picked through rubbish to collect anything worth recycling, sold crafts on the pavement, charged drivers to "protect" their parked vehicles and cleaned car windscreens at red lights.

Prime Minister Tsipras assured all concerned that Greece intended to repay its loan obligations but under conditions that would be more in tune with its economic development and with the plight of its destitute citizens in mind.

Like Canadians, our older, destitute and disabled citizens see private providers with the government paying.

The confiscation of farm animals and everything else needed for the war left citizens destitute and starving.

It is decades since developed countries first sought to ensure that none of their citizens was left destitute.

India's state-run power industry struggles to get enough fuel thanks to mismanagement and bureaucracy, even its brightest youth can't land a spot at a good university and about third of its citizens live in destitute poverty, with hundreds of millions malnourished.

Uganda is a poor country, so destitute in fact that the average citizen makes not enough in an entire year to afford a plane ticket to see the world.

Greed and conflict have reduced Liberia's three million citizens to among the most destitute in the world, despite the country's rich trove of rubber, timber, gold and iron ore.

In the year of the Windrush scandal, Corbyn branded Theresa May's "hostile environment" policies an example of a "nasty, cynical politics that demeans our country", and rightly blasted "the scandal of British citizens being deported, detained and left destitute".

Their death or maiming leaves families destitute and deprives countries of their most economically valuable citizens.