Sentence examples for experiencing privation from inspiring English sources

Thus, Divinity as a perfect being is simply incompatible with having or experiencing privation.

And those of you who are not experiencing privation but are still feeling constricted - let's get you re-started.

Born in rural poverty, Fillmore experienced intellectual privation first-hand and spent his life acquiring books and building libraries.

Even those who experienced its privations and drama remotely, far from the theatre of conflict, found the peculiar flavour of those years irresistible when it came to memorial and contemplation.

He documents what we would now experience as privations: until relatively recently, offices and workplaces were frigid in the winter (imagine the cab of a truck or the floor of a warehouse before cheap heating); food was monotonous and unhealthy (many Americans ate mostly salted pork and corn, or "hogs 'n' hominy"); and life was boring (in 1870, "major league sports were still to come").

To those who have never experienced the privations of combat, Hodgson's description of this exploit as "epic" may [End Page 126] seem overblown.

Until then, we were just ordinary passengers, experiencing the pleasures and privations unique to this mode of conveyance.

That translates into a fall in income per head, since the population is growing faster than the economy, although it is nothing like the privation experienced by the Palestinians.The global technology slump has added to Israel's woes.

Anyway, they come to Vermont, having managed to avoid experiencing the terrible on-train privation and depression that Stephen Tschida experienced.

That experience of privation and fear, as short-lived as it was, was very much in the back of my mind when I started "The Empties" the following summer.

My late mother was a wonderful woman, but her experience of privation during the great depression made her view of the world a narrow one.