Once again, Angola's strongmen prosper through the destitution of their people.
Plunging the poor into destitution through usury is serious sin.
Those who didn't have the means to attain this lifestyle but wanted to try it became Bohemians, suffering through poverty and destitution for the opportunity to experience some of the freedoms and pleasures the aristocrats and their ilk had reserved for themselves.
We became refugees in our own country and struggled through over a decade of destitution.
Those were peak famine years, and most immigrants who passed through were Irish escaping hunger and destitution and Germans escaping political turmoil in their homeland.
Until the early 1980s, Haiti was largely self-sufficient in food, but now domestic agriculture meets only 43% of Haitians' food consumption needs.5 This has led to the further impoverishment of the small farmer sector; those who still try to survive through growing do so in grinding destitution.
It interrogates pain, grief, despair, destitution, nationalism, pride, shame; all through the prism of youth.
Within hours, Shah's account of become politicized through a life of abject poverty, abuse, destitution, and fear went viral on social media.
"We're facing absolute destitution if this decision goes through – I might not be able to keep the roof over our head," she said.
Walter Matthau plays an heir-head named Henry Graham, a middle-aged New York fop who has run through a vast fortune and, to spare himself destitution, humiliation, or a job, needs to marry rich in a hurry.
