Sentence examples for destitute need from inspiring English sources

Although the poor may, in a sense, always be with you, the destitute need not be.

Yet those made destitute need to be put back on their feet as quickly as possible, not least to deny the Taliban and their allies who this week carried out three attacks in a single day more supplies of willing and hungry recruits.

With three-quarters of the 4.5 million population now destitute, needing 2,500 tons of food aid a week, and an inadequate transport system, the prospect of a famine disaster is looking increasingly likely this year.

Not because destitute Africans need more guns, but because, unlike local gun-owners, they lack an effective lobby.

One great success – perhaps we'll look back on this as the great success – of the current government has been to reframe human rights as something that only criminals and destitute foreigners need.

"I say to you: What if that attitude was held by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930's when he looked out at the country and saw the elderly destitute, in need of some pension?" Mr. Bradley said.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, and countless others are also receiving military support to do the same despite the fact that large numbers of their populations are destitute and need work not weapons.

Examples in the Gospel of Matthew includes forced laborers, day laborers, some slaves, tenant farmers, the poor, the destitute in need of alms, eunuchs, those who are ritually unclean, lepers, a woman with a hemorrhage, the women who follow Jesus, the diseased and infirm, the blind, the lame, the deaf, the dumb, the deformed paralytics, demoniacs, epileptics, bandits and prostitutes.

So many of their own people, they pointed out, other Jews right there in New York, were also destitute and needed assistance.

I'm still trying to set a good example for you, and the prospect, however remote, of being destitute or needing help of any sort is depressing.

Eli, the bloodsucking waif of "Let the Right One In," based on a much-talked-about novel of the same name, is gorgeous but apparently destitute and needs only the occasional sanguinary fix to keep from shriveling.