Sentence examples for live on handouts from inspiring English sources

I have never been one to live on handouts.

I just live on handouts from friends, living from day to day.

In exile, Litvinenko carried on relentlessly truffling for dirt on Putin, but having to live on handouts from Berezovsky niggled at his pride.

Retired people across Zimbabwe have seen their pensions wiped out by inflation and increasing numbers live on handouts from organisations such as Save Our Ageing Pensioners.

"If we do not discontinue this, we basically support a policy of creating a nation of beggars and people who live on handouts," said Finn Reske-Nielsen, who coordinates United Nations relief operations in East Timor.

"I do not need to accept people who live on handouts from a state they reject and who are not adequately concerned about the education of their children and constantly produce new little headscarf-clad girls," he said.

The free money had predictable results, with the 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi portraying a large number of Meccans as dossers living on handouts; they spent their days idling or going from one coffee house to another, "dressed in their fine clothes, with henna in their beards and feet".

He lives on handouts from friends and strangers, he said.

Belounis said he had been living on handouts from French people in Qatar ever since.

Pity the pagoda boy, barefoot and hungry, living on handouts from the monks.

On the other side stand foreigners living on handouts with no possibility of working.