Sentence examples for they were indigent from inspiring English sources

We do know they were indigent fish out of water.

Immigrants must provide proof that they are indigent to qualify for a waiver.

"There is clear legal precedent that you can't incarcerate someone because they're indigent," he told me.

The last vestiges of their former working-class or middle-class lives are gone; it is inescapable now that they are indigent.

Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, Mr. Hussein's former bodyguard and secretary, listened intently to the rights available to all appearing before the tribunal -- to a lawyer, paid for by the state if they are indigent, as well as to remain silent in court -- and offered his congratulations.

The guilty should not go free because they are indigent, but neither should the innocent suffer because they are poor.

She also asked whether anything would prevent defendants from falsely claiming they couldn't afford their bail, and whether they could make the claim that they're indigent even if they were spending money on "all sorts of ridiculous things".

Many jails have more than 70percentt nonviolent offenders within their walls, a majority of whom have not been convicted of the crime they are accused of -- they simply cannot use the bail system to get out because they are indigent.

The town officials noted that the Indians were indigent but owned significant parcels of land, which they offered could be sold to cover the expense of the Indians' care.

Ordinary debtors were indigent, not just insolvent.

But many people I met were indigent; some were homeless.