Sentence examples for destitute local from inspiring English sources

The action, in which an industrialist and his family confront their complicity in the suicide of a destitute local woman, is staged within a doll's house on stilts, perched above some blackened, Blitz-blasted street.

So he stole food from the Army and gave it to destitute locals in Normandy, who, when I visited decades later, still remembered "Easy," the Black soldier who had fed them everyday.

Even those, like India, that aim at national coverage, leave long gaps between surveys, meaning records are out of date and full of holes.Another common approach is to outsource the task of deciding who is destitute to local leaders or community meetings.

In happier times – whatever that might mean for a city as destitute as Camden – local businesses on Haddon Avenue could at least rely on a bit of trade from those who made their money on the street.

Increasingly bereft of social support, or a welfare state able to meet the needs of a growing number of destitute and hungry, locals have set up similar trading networks in the suburbs of Athens, the island of Corfu, the town of Patras and northern Katerini.

When the war ended, destitute and starving locals started walking up the so-called Black Road (as they began to call it) in search of manmade nuggets shaped from melted gold in order to buy bread.

But, frankly, we already knew that he was a man who left his first wife destitute to marry the local heiress whom he then publicly upbraids and calls a c***: not exactly an ally of women.

She was helped by local charity Dash (Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield) but survival was precarious until she was recently given leave to remain in Britain.

Ministers say they will also consider changing the law to ensure that the burden of supporting rejected asylum seekers is not simply passed on to local authorities through destitute failed asylum seekers claiming to be homeless.

Ministers say they will also consider changing the law to ensure the costs of supporting rejected asylum seekers are not simply passed on to local authorities through destitute people claiming to be homeless.

Tottenham MP David Lammy told the debate, hosted by presenter Victoria Derbyshire, that local people were "still standing destitute" as a result of damage to their homes and businesses.