"destitution by" can be a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where someone is experiencing extreme poverty or lack of resources, often due to outside circumstances beyond their control. Example: The small village was plunged into destitution by the ongoing drought, leaving many families struggling to find enough food and water to survive.
In the weeks leading to the election, they worked for the opposition in growing numbers as they found themselves pushed ever deeper into destitution by the economy's implosion.
These cases are not isolated ones; many asylum seekers and refugees are left to exist in destitution by a British state that simply doesn't care whether they live or die.
Climate change can increase the number and severity of disasters, and increase poverty since hundreds of millions living just above the poverty line risk being pushed back into destitution by a flood or epidemic.
This in the context of charities warning of hundreds of thousands of people being cast into destitution by benefit sanctions, often imposed against those who are genuinely trying to do everything by the book.
When back in the US after the war, however, he struggled to establish himself as an entertainer; he and his second wife, a Canadian model named Mary Greenwood, were eventually rescued from destitution by a regular job playing in a New York hotel bar.
Prof Suzanne Fitzpatrick, director of the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Environment and Real Estate at Heriot-Watt University and one of the authors of the report, said: "This report has shown that destitution is intrinsically linked to long-term poverty, with many people forced into destitution by high costs, unaffordable bills or a financial shock such as a benefit sanction or delay.
The charities said their report provided fresh evidence of "ongoing destitution" caused by Section 55.
"Home has turned into a source of deferred dreams and destitution, characterized by brutal dictatorship, while fleeing is becoming equally challenging".
And the data recently released by the census bureau referring to 2007 poverty rates doesn't begin to capture the slide into destitution experienced by millions in the past few months of economic turmoil.
Miller's libidinal escapades, with all their self-indulgence, misery, and yearning, would become "Tropic of Cancer," a chronicle of Parisian destitution populated by a modern "Bohème" of prostitutes, journalists, expatriates, and artists.
Those who wish to dismantle this civilizing advance should remember that before Social Security, one-third of the elderly in this country lived in poverty, and millions of others avoided destitution only by living with their children.
