Sentence examples for destitution of large from inspiring English sources

Failure to anticipate and prepare for famine carries a huge cost in deaths, disrupted lives and livelihoods, and the destitution of large populations makes subsequent development much more difficult.

We need to ensure people who are locked out of paid work are not falling into destitution.

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.

It's a consequence of an epidemic of large companies defaulting on their pension obligations -- with more than a nod and a wink from the Bush administration in the years leading up to 2008 -- and pushing retirees and near-retirees into destitution.

Once again, Angola's strongmen prosper through the destitution of their people.

"I saw the grinding destitution of poverty that you often saw on TV.

Street children are huddling in the shade of a dilapidated shack; it is a scene of destitution, of desperation.

This painting marks the spiritual destitution of an artist whose extraordinary gifts as a draftsman might have put him safely after his "Guernica," among the great ones.

It was the destitution of this region that inspired President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, when the government expanded its role in social welfare programs.

Forgetfulness: a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Pietro and Gianni first had to rebuild their grandfather's company in the postwar destitution of Italy.