Even before the revolution, she was suggesting that the Assad family's rule had beggared Alawites.
If he had been governor of the Punjab, their dowries would have beggared him.
This proved to be the harbinger of a new era and Sassuolo's subsequent success has beggared belief.
Having beggared ourselves in the Black Rock, we can't really afford to eat, but the food looks fabulous.
The president's political opponents say he has beggared the country to pay for his playthings, which include a soccer team that hires expensive players from abroad.
Doctors in Germany, academics in the UK, shopkeepers in America – the decimation of Greece's population has perhaps been the most pernicious byproduct of the economic collapse which has beggared the country since its brush with bankruptcy.
When he narrowly won his first, disputed, presidential election in 2001, opponents dubbed him "the cabbage", deriding him as a stooge for others more powerful.But Mr Mwanawasa, who died this week in France after suffering in June the latest of several strokes, deserves to be remembered more fondly than the showmen who have beggared much of the continent.
Self-scuttling, ie, feigning injury for various motives (alms, self-preservation, profit, etc), has been with us as long as we have had beggars, wars and lawyers.
In English you say, 'a beggar has no choice'".
Their excuse for not using the power they already have beggars belief - Nicola Sturgeon said they couldn't act now because women would go to work and the tax they pay would go to the UK Treasury.
