Sentence examples for destitute state from inspiring English sources

After all, Saddam Hussein has turned what was once one of the most prosperous and modern of Arab nations into a destitute state.

The latest Global Hunger Index described hunger in Madhya Pradesh, a destitute state in central India, as "extremely alarming," ranking the state somewhere between Chad and Ethiopia.

The end of his life was spent in a drunken and destitute state, wandering between slums, hospital and cafes, countering treatment for diabetes, ulcers and syphilis with absinthe.

NEW DELHI — The remote, destitute state of Orissa, marred for years by Hindu-versus-Christian violence, erupted in a retaliatory killing on Monday after the murder of a Hindu leader led a mob to burn small Christian churches, prayer halls and an orphanage that had housed 21 children.

When that person lands in a destitute state, there will be further burdens placed on "the state".

Although she survived, the trauma of the incident and of the enduring physical difficulties she encountered after the fact left Zgierska in an almost destitute state.

Pennsylvania is one of several destitute states seeking to help balance budgets by removing adults from government health insurance programs.

For more than half-century, North Korea, one of the most destitute states in history, has almost always bested the world's superpower.

The American ambassador to Haiti, James B. Foley, said in a speech on Tuesday that Haiti must transform itself from a destitute, feudal state torn apart by strife into a modern nation or face deeper ruin.

'There were people,' he says, 'who wanted to drag me back in.' Would he, Cameron wondered in his destitute, jobless state, be strong enough to resist?

It also signaled the coming of age of a group of filmmakers who grew up during the post-Soviet era, when the destitute Cuban state lost its near-monopoly on Cuban cinema.