One thing is clear: it can't be as miserable as this area.
The situation is even more miserable in rural areas, with some women spending four to five hours a day collecting water.
From a small and rather miserable peninsula -- an area commonly known as Christendom or Europe -- at the southwest corner of the gigantic Eurasian landmass, men began to venture forth in frail yet efficient wooden sailing vessels across thousands of miles of ocean.
That is only a little higher than the 5.6% rate of a year ago, but that is partly because many of those without jobs have left the labour force rather than register as unemployed.Japan's GDP growth was revised up to 2.8% in the year to the fourth quarter, only a whisker behind the United States (2.9%), and leagues ahead of the euro area's miserable growth rate of 1.3%.
The suffering didn't end there: dehydration, dry eyes, ear and facial pain, and the jarring sensation of cold air piercing my lungs whenever I was in an unheated area were miserable, yet mere nuisances compared to the agony of never being allowed to enter into the deeper, restorative levels of sleep ― a torment that's been used as a torture tactic in war.
Unofficially, part of the philosophy behind the move appears to be to demonstrate to those people living in rebel-held areas how miserable life under separatist rule can be, and it is also based on an assumption that most pro-Kiev people have already left the region.
The poor still inhabit the miserable housing in the central area, but they are increasingly isolated from contact with, or sight of, anybody else.... Living out in the suburbs, it is easy to assume that ours is, indeed, an affluent society.... Clothes make the poor invisible too: America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known..
The poor still inhabit the miserable housing in the central area, but they are increasingly isolated from contact with, or sight of, anybody else.... Living out in the suburbs, it is easy to assume that ours is, indeed, an affluent society.... Clothes make the poor invisible too: America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known...
GAZA, 26 January 2005 - The family of three-year-old Rahma Ibrahim abu Shamas ekes out a miserable existence in a bleak area of the central Gaza Strip known as al-Birka.
