Sentence examples for own penury from inspiring English sources

Having dispossessed them and pushed them into a downward spiral of indigence, in a cruel sleight of hand the government began to use their own penury against them.

The King's own penury meant the old Cavaliers received scant financial reward, but the prodigal monarch could offer something which would cost him nothing – positions at court for their progeny.

Obama's biggest political problem, apart from the sluggish economy and his own campaign's relative penury, has been morale.

LIKE North Korea's Workers Partyy, another vile dictatorship that has visited misery and penury on its own people, Myanmar's junta has survived in part through diplomatic triangulation.

Lampedusa's own palaces were reduced to hollow shells by bombs and penury, like the aftermath of a banquet.

Young women are drawn nonetheless to Cinderella stories like that of Eri Momoka, a single mother who became a hostess and worked her way out of penury to start a TV career and her own line of clothing and accessories.

He warmed the hearts of Argentines with the comforting notion that it was the evil IMF, rather than their own mistakes, which was responsible for a once-rich country's penury.

It is a crucial moment for Afghanistan, which relies on international donors for most of its national budget and has almost no revenue of its own to pay government workers and lift the country out of penury.

Owning a network is no longer a path to riches, but to penury.

It also brought death threats and near-penury to its indefatigable sponsor, a feisty octogenarian who follows his own drummer, usually with rum and Coke in hand.

To avoid years of penury and frustration and to shape a reasonable work life for themselves aspiring academics must take charge of their own destinies, she says.