Sentence examples for escape penury from inspiring English sources

THEY cast themselves on the seas in leaky boats in their hundreds of thousands, so desperate to escape penury and oppression that they would risk being drowned, murdered or shot.

Elsewhere, the other royals have adapted with varying degrees of success: the Queen is stoical, Princess Anne has embraced a third marriage - to an oik called Spiggy - with carnal gusto and Princess Michael, loathed by everyone and abandoned by her husband, is attempting to escape penury and obscurity by writing a dazzlingly successful novel.

Many have escaped rural penury in China's interior to work as migrants in the booming factories and building sites of the coastal belt.

The real dramatic tension comes not from whether the kid will correctly make eight animal sounds in 60 seconds, but from whether the parents will escape the trap of penury by winning what the host, actress Melissa Peterman, explicitly terms a "life-changing" sum of money.

His great grandfather was the glorious King Jaja, who escaped a life of penury as a slave in rural 19th-century Nigeria to become a great leader, only for the British to capture and imprison him.

My brother and sister-in-law desperately wanted to buy insurance and now wonder how to escape Medi-Cal's forced penury.

While some of the women suffered tragic ends, succumbing to penury, alcoholism or disease, others escaped from poverty — or even vaulted into high society, thanks to the surprisingly free mingling of the classes in 18th-century London, which resulted in a level of social mobility that Victorians would drastically limit (and cover up in their family trees).

Near-starvation and penury inspired him to excel, for only by excelling could he escape his background.

The jobs that her relatives held in the early 20th century — domestic servant, coal sorter, dressmaker — suggest an escape from sharecropping, the system that trapped many former slaves and their children in penury for generations.

Farnan assesses the causes (the opportunity to escape from centuries of poverty) observes the results (lavish weddings with tattooed dogs as gifts) and then points out the consequences (penury and Jedward).

"Penury, George, eh?