Sentence examples for destitution from from inspiring English sources

The freed slaves of Amity end up as starving castaways squatting on barren land — a destitution from which Miss July will be rescued, many years later, by Thomas Kinsman, her foundling son, who was taken away in infancy by Baptist missionaries to be raised in England.

His presentation of the hypocrisy of philanthropy and inhumane treatment of the poor is unblinking – I certainly can't read him without seeing clear parallels to today's world, particularly in the way he makes clear the function of language in distancing those responsible for destitution from the actions which cause it.

Happily, and despite the dramatically eyelashed talking heads praising a philosophy of voluntary destitution from what look like very well-appointed living quarters, episode one suggests that bohemians have been peddling une load de vieux bolloques for a good old while.

The late French philosopher Charles Pguy remarks, in his classic essay on poverty, "The duty of tearing the destitute from their destitution and the duty of distributing goods equitably are not of the same order.

So the recession tossed Kristen from routine poverty into destitution, and from there, willy-nilly, into a new life as a community organizer and a grass-roots leader.

And many of those the government boasts of rescuing from destitution were brought from just below the poverty line to just above it.

The first one, Shun Akiyama, runs a completely nonprofit loan-shark office as his hobby he likes to put potential clients through bizarre tests to determine whether they just want free money or if they seriously desire to pull themselves out of financial destitution, learn from past mistakes, and fix their lives.

They have both travelled the same journey, from Poland to America, from brutalism to survival, from destitution to wealth.

The implication being that we should have a strong welfare state that limits people from sliding into total destitution and alienation from all means of institutional support.

In recent years, the Italian American diaspora has been joined by a new wave of migrants fleeing – not from destitution, like those of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – but from a lack of career opportunities and a moribund economy.

Only contributions from a select circle of admirers saved them from destitution.