Sentence examples for destitute person from inspiring English sources

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The state refers to her as a destitute person.

(The destitute person will reply that a principle allowing me to leave her to starve fails to respect her as a person. The challenge for the contractualist is to distinguish these two complaints. For one attempt, see Kumar 2000).

The "real smuggler," the leader in smuggling ring, will match your passport size photo to a doppelgänger often a drug addict or otherwise destitute person who rents their passport-size photo to smugglers for a short period of time.

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A citation can carry a $300 fine — an unaffordable sum for a destitute homeless person.

This was a common practice in India's Golden Era, a time that inspired the Chinese and Europeans like poet, historian, and politician Lord Thomas Macaulay to praise India, saying that they could not find a single beggar, destitute, or illiterate person in the country.

These groups are in addition to railroad employees and their families, employees of other railroads; ministers of religion; Young Mens Christian Association workers; inmates of eleemosynary institutions; indigent, destitute, and homeless persons; disabled soldiers; and others in analogous categories.

Unlike Mother Theresa and Doctors Without Borders, whose concern is for all destitute, sick, dying persons they can reach, the concern of the patriot is by definition selective; and the selection is performed by the word "my".

Official guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care says that trusts can write off debts as not worth pursuing "where it is clear that a person is destitute or genuinely without access to any funds".

But if the person is destitute and unable to obtain better conditions only because the employer actively prevents the person from leaving the island (say, by preventing the building of boats), Zimmerman suggests the offer should be regarded as coercive.

So, for instance, if a person is destitute on an island, and someone proposes to employ this person for a life-sustaining pittance, this proposal may count as an offer, since it is an improvement over the "pre-proposal" situation.

When a person is destitute of such emotion, when there is nothing in one that flames up at the sight of injustice, cruelty, and oppression, nothing that flashes out indignation against the liar, the hypocrite, the 'grafter,' the betrayer of sacred trusts, there is much awanting to the strength and completeness of moral humanity".

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