"But the situation, the pitiful living conditions for migrants and the growth of migrants' numbers... obliges NGOs, like us, to put in place an emergency system".
Thirty-four of the men, who make a pitiful living mining and breaking stones, were executed with a bullet to the head; two were beheaded; all were non-Muslims.Ten days earlier in the same remote part of Kenya gunmen flagged down an early-morning bus.
Nothing in their pitiful lives works out until they are bitten by a spider, or start sporting a remarkable piece of jewellery, or are handed a large, seemingly radioactive hammer by their father.
I see poor families living on pitiful salaries, I see the unemployed who cannot even feed their children, and I see a government that after all these years cannot even manage the electricity supply.
But the court refused to take emergency action to strike down the regional decree that allowed the shelter to open two years ago, when the towns around the tunnel were complaining of refugees living in pitiful conditions in parks and deserted alleys.
They are living on a pitiful proportion of the state pension that, by rights, they are entitled to.
"I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"."I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"His duties, he said in hesitant English (his father had struggled to pay the school fees), are religious and cultural, and he cannot speak outside them.
Prosecutors said he lived in "pitiful conditions and in a poor physical state" and, after his family finally tracked him down following a media campaign, they could hardly recognise him and described him as being a "broken man" who looked far older than his years.
Beyond that, there are a million or more Iraqis living as refugees in neighboring Arab countries, and the pitiful toll of fear and deprivation on Iraqi streets.
Maybe a film director, who knows?" It is pitiful that the only real help being given to the drug users living in Bucharest's ghetto areas are via two NGOs funded mainly by foreign money.
The few hundred Romas who found refuge in the Serb-enclave on the northern bank of the river live in pitiful conditions.
