Sentence examples for financial penury from inspiring English sources
Royal, a disbarred attorney, has been reduced to emotional and financial penury by his children, who are all former child prodigies.
Ted, Ted, Ted – the way out of financial penury is not trying to win your wife back with an exclusive cruise.
Our landlord could double the rent tomorrow, one of us could be summoned to work in Stockholm or Scotland or Stockport, or we might find ourselves in financial penury.
When I look back on my years in graduate school, the financial penury my fellow students and I lived in barely registers as an issue.
He is at his best when he writes about what the struggle against penury and financial ruin can do to the soul.
Though he raised Drury Lane Theatre from penury to astounding financial success and, by his improvements in 1747 48 and 1762 and by the acting of his company, had made it London's most flourishing theatre, he had his setbacks.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] for refugeesSIR – Your proposal that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees seeks more private money as a solution to its financial crunch is unwise ("Flight into penury", August 11th).
Almost 7 million working-age adults are living in extreme financial stress, one small push from penury, despite being in employment and largely independent of state support, according to the most comprehensive study yet of the finances of employed households, commissioned by the Guardian.
Of course, there are those who want to be rock stars on stage and as investors, a combination that can end in penury — and dreams of regaining their financial solvency with a comeback.
But what gives this latest market-rigging story such force is that it was carried out by a financial system that taxpayers were bankered into near-penury to prop up.
The King's own penury meant the old Cavaliers received scant financial reward, but the prodigal monarch could offer something which would cost him nothing – positions at court for their progeny.
