Sentence examples for in pitiful conditions from inspiring English sources

The few hundred Romas who found refuge in the Serb-enclave on the northern bank of the river live in pitiful conditions.

They are dumped there by people-smugglers and held in pitiful conditions until their families can pay ransoms for their release, after which they normally seek work in Malaysia, where they are quietly welcomed as a cheap source of labour.

But the court refused to take emergency action to strike down the regional decree that allowed the shelter to open two years ago, when the towns around the tunnel were complaining of refugees living in pitiful conditions in parks and deserted alleys.

"The monkeys live in pitiful conditions, are riddled with parasites and forced to live in small cages," she said.

Prosecutors said he lived in "pitiful conditions and in a poor physical state" and, after his family finally tracked him down following a media campaign, they could hardly recognise him and described him as being a "broken man" who looked far older than his years.

He was released in 2011 only after it was argued that he was dying.Fittingly, he managed to postpone that fate a bit, but he was in pitiful condition.

Whilst alongside fellow volunteers, it was truly heartening to see the number of people willing to give their time and energy working towards housing refugees who live in the most pitiful conditions in totally inadequate tents and flimsy covers, exposed to the elements just as they are to repression.

Left to decay, and in a pitiful condition by the mid 19th century, the chapel underwent a restoration in 1836 based on descriptions and drawings of the original building.

If western leaders have been surprised and also impressed by the sudden display of Russian military prowess, Ukraine, by contrast, is in a pitiful condition militarily, according to Nato officials.

So, when the pitiful conditions hemming them in permitted them for a moment to pause, they stepped back, looked the surface of things in the face, and laughed.

"I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"."I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"His duties, he said in hesitant English (his father had struggled to pay the school fees), are religious and cultural, and he cannot speak outside them.