Sentence examples for penury that from inspiring English sources

For most, it's not persecution but penury that drives them northwards.

He gets the tapering libido, the extreme penury that requires him to eat dog food to get by, the gloomy discussions with heart doctors.

As lofty and unmaterialistic as it pleases the academe to look, there is something in its very penury that creates strange dynamics.

He added in disgust that some Iranians are in such penury that they attend parties wearing Chinese-made, fake Nikes.

One woman we talked to had started in such penury that four of her children had died of starvation or disease.

And, with a 4-year football contract worth $2,364,560; a salary this year of $600,000; and a $144,560 signing bonus, he won't have to endure the penury that many of his classmates may face. .

AIDS makes Africa even poorer, and so less stable, although some recent studies suggest that it may affect slightly fewer millions than previously estimated (see article).If Africans are to have a chance of pulling themselves out of penury, they need governments that do not stand in their way.

Had Charlie's family lived in a country with a welfare state, which would provide unemployment benefit for the unemployed worker and income support for his family as well as subsidising his retraining, they would not have had to endure penury and that continuous diet of cabbage soup.

The answer is, there is still a lot of menswear designers operating in penury, producing clothes that are exciting but difficult on many levels, not least to make.

Many admired contemporary novelists would consider the conditions of isolation, penury and disdain that inspire the virtue of disloyalty as the evils of an ancien régime of creativity now properly dumped in the dustbin of history.

More shocking than the reporting of present penury is abject pessimism that sets in when YouGov-Cambridge's questioning turned to the future.