Many families were reduced to penury.
Most of the remainder have been reduced to penury.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.
He was often reduced to penury, and the humiliation of calling on his muses to plea for money in verse.
But the scheme was unrealistic: nomads who sold their flocks were often unable to cultivate and were reduced to penury.
In addition, the French government refused to pay Napoleon's allowance, so that he was in danger of being reduced to penury.
It can act with ease since the West Bank is now segregated into 220 isolated military enclaves (and Gaza into four and onee in two Palestinians have been reduced to penury.
Since wages and pensions are paid at the old pre-inflation rate, all but the most favoured sections of the civil service and military have been reduced to penury.
In the end, Elizabeth returns to the Squeamish Community, which has been reduced to penury because the cheese balls aren't the same without her, and the missing secret ingredient is revealed: Liz's sweat.
As the Confederacy lurches toward defeat, the group's numbers increase, drawing other deserters, runaway slaves, and farmers reduced to penury, and Newton turns the band into an effective fighting force.
