Sentence examples for destitute relatives from inspiring English sources
They work in menial jobs, as street vendors, in tenement-style sewing factories and elsewhere, sending their paychecks back to destitute relatives.
To save money, they skimp on meals, and the little money they pocket is immediately wired to destitute relatives back home.
The second is that the deceased are from poor neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city, and SEMEFO, located in a wealthy area, is too long a distance to travel for their destitute relatives.
At the same time, it's a place proud of its old Corsican and French-Italian mob heritage (a popular downtown clothing store was named for a famous mob boss), and the prevalence of drug dealers and North African gangs does partly explain why there's relative calm in destitute areas: Calm is maintained for the sake of their businesses.
Many of the Americans dropping out of the work force are not destitute: they're receiving disability payments and food stamps, living with relatives, cobbling together work here and there, and often doing as well as they might with a low-wage job.
Though adoptions of Haitian children by foreign nationals particularly in the United States were expedited, the process was slowed by the efforts of Haitian and foreign authorities to ensure that the children did not have living relatives, as orphanages had often temporarily accommodated the children of the destitute.
The Great Depression and his father's alcoholism kept the family destitute, and, when Frank was four years old, the McCourts left New York to join relatives in Limerick, Ireland.
Parents obliged, assuming that, in the Confucian tradition, they could rely on their children in old age.Yet today half of South Korea's elderly are in relative poverty, according to the OECD, which ranks the country's seniors as the most destitute among its rich-country members.
Affordable, even for the destitute?
