Sentence examples for destitution in from inspiring English sources

Most of them are refugees from rural destitution in the provinces.

It protected immigrants and fought prairie fires, disease, and destitution in the new settlements.

Thank you for writing about destitution in America with astonishing specificity yet without voyeurism or judgment.

"The dream has faded for the many living in poverty and destitution in our increasingly unequal society.

Next week, the high court in London will hear evidence that asylum seekers and refugees face severe destitution in Italy.

Even by the standards of destitution in these camps, Mr. Mohammad's story is a hard-luck one; Khan was the eighth of his nine children to die.

I'm just saying what I see and hear is people left in destitution and in a country of our wealth that shouldn't happen".

For the poor, the city is almost apocalyptic, its destitution caught in phantasmagoric glimpses.

Years of blank terror and sleepless nights, hunger and destitution, spent in a landscape of rubble colonised by rats and heavy with the smell of pestilence and decay, might have been expected to stifle any positive attitude to life.

This section was built as a "Destitution Road" in the mid-19th century to provide work for the dispossessed and starving -- the potato famine struck here at the same time as it did in Ireland.

And to be clear, by failure I mean destitution: Living in a cardboard box on the street without a penny to my name.