Sentence examples for material destitution from inspiring English sources

In today's world, with all we have mastered in medicine, public health and development, Professor Deaton says, it is also still the case that almost a billion people "live in material destitution, millions of children still die through the accident of where they are born, and wasting and wanting still disfigure the bodies of nearly half of India's children".

Material destitution is certainly one of these limits.

Analogously, it was in deliberate counterpart to the truly immense wealth of his family background, to the opulence of his upbringing in late imperial Vienna, that Wittgenstein embraced asceticism and even destitution in regard to material circumstances.

They were near to destitution.

Destitution is a powerful motivating force.

To suffer silently here or in destitution back home?

Wars are usually not waged because of destitution.

He died in a state of utter destitution and alcoholism.

"My children would live in destitution.

They were threatened with destitution and violence.

Think food banks, evictions, and destitution.