Sentence examples for privation that from inspiring English sources

The constant experience of suffering and death, and the privation that results as economies fail in AIDS-ravaged countries, especially in Africa, could lead to the downfall of governments and the breakdown of law and order.

It's very Byrne-Eno in its deployment of found voices from radio broadcasts over danceable electronic beats, only with an obvious slant towards Britain: instead of religious zealots from middle America, it's rationing and privation that are the leitmotifs.

But since Sept. 11, the elderly -- especially those who lived through the last attack on American shores and the years of insecurity and privation that followed -- have emerged as sources of reassurance and even wisdom for younger generations.

Richardson's portrayal of a young offenders' institution now seems mild in comparison with films such as Alan Clarke's Scum; at the time, it revealed a shocking level of brutality and privation that came as a shock to contemporary cinema audiences.

Hundreds of thousands have died, and many more have suffered oppression and privation that are unimaginable to Americans.

They stayed there for several months and adopted a regime of study and privation that included daily twilight baths taken in icy water.

She attributes that to the constraints and privations that have shaped young people's lives.

These are privations that bear very small comparison to the torture and execution said to be widespread under Mr. Hussein.

The trauma of war and the privations that Japan suffered in its aftermath didn't, she thought, have an appreciable effect on her.

Despite the various privations that came with living in a drafty, fieldmouse-infested, hundred-and-fifty-year-old house with a terminally self-absorbed man, Rose grew to love the farm as she had never before loved a place.

Though abhorring this brief descent into the working class, he began to gain that sympathetic knowledge of its life and privations that informed his writings.