Sentence examples for destitute state of from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

Considering their destitute state, dejected and starving, he never expected them to fight again; he hoped they would carry home the stigma of defeat to the rest of the Confederacy.

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

McNamee was "destitute and desperate" and in a "state of pharmaceutical delusion and dependence" when he was said to have injected Clemens with drugs, and kept the "so-called physical evidence," the defense said.

"The Children," with its portraits of destitute girls and boys peering mysteriously into the lens, is in a sense a footnote on the state of the world.

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.