Sentence examples for human destitution from inspiring English sources

"I was always there," he said, "up to the moment, and even beyond the moment, when it was decent to be there". The images he shot along his journey, taken in the only available light of low-wattage electric bulbs, are raw, garish, red smears of human destitution, the tawdry furnishings a physical extension of the debauched bodies.

As the 19th-century progressed, more and more Britons recognised that society wasn't entirely fair, that the laws of economics were not necessarily the laws of nature (let alone of God) and that accident and circumstance could be as (or more) culpable for human destitution as personal moral failure.

Migration also allows individuals to escape destitution, human rights abuses, and repressive regimes.

Combined with an ever-increasing number of natural disasters, the world has witnessed widespread human suffering and destitution.

By refusing to give her own beggars any identifying features at all, Büttner pushes against the condescending impulse to "give a human face" to destitution.

He is the author of several books, including "An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution" (1993) and "Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment" (2001), and his collected papers were published in two volumes by Oxford University Press in 2010.

More than one billion children continue to suffer in absolute destitution, lacking basic human necessities such as food, education, shelter, healthcare and protection from violence.

In Australia, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre protects asylum seekers from persecution and destitution, and defends their human rights.

But destitution never quite extinguishes the human spark: a mother makes a feast of canned salmon for her downtrodden daughter; a young girl digs eagerly through slops and filth in search of a go-cart wheel; a young man becomes a thief to make his wedding day a final, exuberant shot at how life should have been.

In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human".

And had human rights abuses, corporate trust activities and popular destitution been combatted with the zealotry of Joseph McCarthy or Pat Robertson, I imagine we might have had a great deal to teach the courageous dreamers of North Africa.