Sentence examples for immediate misery from inspiring English sources
NGOs operating in the third world are in the business of solving emergencies and crises; they could see expensive long-term "solutions" as a distraction from immediate misery.
It is possible that the toxic effects of certain congeners (such as isoamyl and its kindred "higher" alcohols) are not confined to the immediate and transitory misery of a hangover.
But Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, shows no sign of agreeing to such an increase.This week's deal will have no immediate impact on the misery in Darfur, where at least 200,000 have been killed and 2m displaced since 2003 in fighting that has ranged over scrubland the size of France.
The problem is, a majority of African immigrants pledging for this kind of protection have weak legal rights, as in most cases they are not running from an immediate violent threat but from misery and deprivation.
Under many houses, people screamed for help, but no one helped; in general, survivors that day assisted only their relatives or immediate neighbors, for they could not comprehend or tolerate a wider circle of misery.
But if Iceland's economic misery was largely still to come, its cultural and political trauma had been immediate.
Haiti's criminal leadership was the immediate cause of the problem, but the country's rapid rates of population growth and deforestation contributed to its misery and the desire of Haitians to flee.
For millions, technological advances meant not freedom, but utter misery – and just as it declares that everything can be known, instrumental reason abstracts that knowledge beyond immediate experience.
Her misery creates more misery.
