Sentence examples for experienced destitution from inspiring English sources
About 13 million people in the UK are in poverty, while last year more than a million experienced destitution – the inability to eat, keep clean and stay warm.
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.
This is a three-part series on the cycles of sexual violence experienced by refugee women, especially from Syria – from forced labor and sex slavery inside their own country to years of harassment and destitution in countries neighboring Syria and falling prey to sex trafficking while in transition to Europe.
Those who didn't have the means to attain this lifestyle but wanted to try it became Bohemians, suffering through poverty and destitution for the opportunity to experience some of the freedoms and pleasures the aristocrats and their ilk had reserved for themselves.
The emotional impact of experiencing and bearing witness to a level of destitution many would consider unimaginable in the UK is also acknowledged.
(See also: Destitution, Deadlines, Databases).
Most people live in poverty or destitution for limited periods of time, with millions of us vulnerable to experiencing poverty at some point in our lives.
"I didn't see what I usually see in Somalia: destitution, chaos, needy people".
"These are some of the factors that have contributed to destitution generally in these areas".
