Sentence examples for destitute young from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sadr's followers are generally destitute young men from areas such as Sadr City, a slum in northeastern Baghdad.

The state connived to persuade these destitute young mothers to accept small workers' compensation checks and give up their right to sue for damages.

The orphanage opened last year after activists raised concerns about the growing number of destitute young people scraping a living alone.

"It's clear," said Fraser, "that the UK's asylum system can leave anyone destitute – young or old, fleeing the conflict in Syria or political persecution in Eritrea, and this shows no sign of slowing down.

After Lust's death in 1945, the building was sold to the Florence Crittendon League and served, once again, as a home for destitute young women, known as the Barrett Shelter.

In its early days, the guard was made up of destitute young men from urban areas who were used to clamp down on critics of the revolution.

It has left many Maasai destitute, with young men now converging in the towns to hustle tanzanite, a semiprecious local stone, or to seek poor-paying jobs as night guards.

Even the location is well thought out, taking place in the treasure trove that is the Cinema Museum, which occupies part of the old Lambeth workhouse where a young, destitute Chaplin and his mother were briefly residents.

"I EXPECT to stay here for two to three weeks," says Mahmuda Khatun, a young, destitute mother of four, sitting on a narrow embankment in Sirajganj district, jam-packed with thousands of people, taking refuge from the rising waters of the Brahmaputra.

In a letter, his family write that the Lambeth Workhouse to which a young, destitute Chaplin was sent with his stepbrother and his mother – only to suffer the distress of being separated from her – is "not a celebratory piece of family history by any means, but we now recognise that this painful experience did much to mould our father's unique creative gift".

The writer-director LODGE KERRIGAN takes the audience on a nerve-jangling journey into the psychological life of a destitute father (a young, Redfordesque DAMIAN LEWIS) who is looking for his abducted daughter in "KEANE," which was filmed up-close with a hand-held camera, largely on the streets of New York.