Sentence examples for total destitution from inspiring English sources

Millions will be spent on the festivities while millions of Zimbabweans are living in total destitution.

This is another example of a politician tugging at our selfishness, invoking the language of economic prudence, making us want to elbow the already traumatised and vulnerable into total destitution.

It's not as if the present benefits level is picked to be generous - I don't think anyone would argue that it's anything more than the least possible to avoid total destitution - so taking fines out of it breaks the Magna Carta requirement of 'no fine shall be levied on him to his utter ruin'.

The implication being that we should have a strong welfare state that limits people from sliding into total destitution and alienation from all means of institutional support.

When our last combat troops pulled out of Iraq several months ago, more than a year after Obama assumed the presidency, we left behind one and a half million Iraqis displaced in their own country, uprooted from their homes, many living in total destitution as squatters in slums and shanty towns in Iraq.

Naipaul writing from London in Jan . 1970 repliesthat this year has been one of political crisis for him "Unless you understand the destitution I have been writing about, which is total, you will misinterpret".

They were near to destitution.

To suffer silently here or in destitution back home?

Wars are usually not waged because of destitution.

He died in a state of utter destitution and alcoholism.

Moreover, sanctions and rapacious rule have reduced Iraqis to destitution.