Real strength is not using force to keep out destitute people fleeing for their lives; true moral strength lies in striving to do what is right.
Brands like Gucci, Jimmy Choo and Hermès have been bunking in high-end hotels or banding together in new superluxury malls, where guards are often stationed at the doors to keep the destitute outside.
Do not aggravate a heart already angry, nor keep the destitute waiting for your alms.
Yet the ranks of the new destitute keep growing.
Giving the poor money is a good way to keep them from being destitute.
The Great Depression and his father's alcoholism kept the family destitute, and, when Frank was four years old, the McCourts left New York to join relatives in Limerick, Ireland.
However, it remains one of the poorest countries in the world, and thousands of those who survived - many of them widowed or orphaned by the genocide - remain destitute, unable to keep shelter over their heads or put food on the table.
Destitute, intimidated, unable to keep borrowing such sums, and unaware that the fees could be waived, his brother said, Mr. Zhao gave up on Bellevue in 2002.
The father said his son's damaged health would keep him from working, leaving the family destitute.
In one moving section, Lears recounts the story of Emily French, a "hard-worked woman," in her words, whose abandonment by her husband left her nearly destitute (and who happened to keep a detailed diary of her struggles).
