Sentence examples for indigence and from inspiring English sources

We have little knowledge in the African context, where much of the economy is informal, of the criteria used to determine indigence and of the processes that can help identify the indigent.

Sometimes failure is represented by indigence and environmental devastation; other times he encounters blackly comic dissonance.

Koran was raised by the doctor's family after a trial that exposed Murray's indigence and eccentricity and gave the Cunnings legal custody.

Gatsby was followed by an artistic rallentando, a long struggle with successive drafts of Tender is the Night, then a decade of indigence and alcoholism in Hollywood.

Dominicans often present themselves as generous neighbors of limited means, forced to bear the burden of Haiti's failed state, indigence and epidemic disease.

Her household, Crocq and Mareska write, was a place where "filth kept company with indigence," and "a slug of plonk was added to the kid's bottle, so she'd fall asleep".

We have lowered poverty and indigence considerably and increased employment.

Few countries have specific indigence criteria, and the criteria and targeting processes used vary [ 3, 10– 10].

Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference, and subservience.

While an undergraduate at King's College (later Columbia University), he argued that the Colonies ought to be free because enslavement to Britain "relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape".

Ending welfare will reduce them to indigency 3. Once the above two objectives are achieved, then laws will be passed, similar to laws formerly in force in the south, that will declare indigence a crime and condemn indigents to hard labor.