Sentence examples for levels of destitution from inspiring English sources

But when it comes to social welfare the safety net is itself full of holes: the right to be free from inhuman or degrading treatment will shield you from the most desperate levels of destitution, but only by guaranteeing absolutely minimal provision.

"The levels of destitution inside the Old City are like nothing I've ever seen before," he said.

This phenomenon has crippled the pastoral economy and increased the levels of destitution to alarmingly high levels.

The emotional impact of experiencing and bearing witness to a level of destitution many would consider unimaginable in the UK is also acknowledged.

But in this kind of experience, that deviance, the idea that gay sex had to be this secret, completely animalistic need fulfiller that completely lacked any sort of human or emotional connection whatsoever, put me in touch with a new level of destitution.

By 2008, the share had risen to one in five, and by 2010 it was one in four — twice the level of seeming destitution when welfare was more accessible.

Even Canada -- which has a similar economy and distribution of wealth to the United States -- has a much lower poverty rate and does not permit the level of sheer destitution and misery found in the United States, including hunger, slums and the growing army of homeless people sleeping on park benches and in vacant buildings.

Many of those who suffered during the wars have been condemned to lives of destitution.

While it may not be the levels of far-off destitution we're most inclined to recall, the truth is that many go without the most basic of comforts we consider intrinsic to living.

At the global level, substantial progress has been made in dragging people out of destitution, and extending their lives.

Even by the standards of destitution in these camps, Mr. Mohammad's story is a hard-luck one; Khan was the eighth of his nine children to die.