In 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published a famous essay, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being A Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public". .
He died in a state of utter destitution and alcoholism.
This basic safety net is still helping long-time poor families, and newly poor families losing jobs and homes during the current recession, avoid the kind of utter destitution, hunger, malnutrition, and starvation that shocked Dr. King, Senator Kennedy and the nation".
Displaced families have no shelter, no access to safe water and no schools for their children to attend, and many are in a state of utter destitution.
1907 - Millions starve in China The famine in China "It is estimated that four millions are starving and tens of thousands reduced to utter destitution wandering over the country, in the North of Anhui, the East of Honan, and the whole of the North of Kiang-Su provinces of China".
An unexpected flood or fever can push a poor family into utter destitution, or the muscular arms of loan sharks.In this section Scaling the summit Cash for credibility ¡Arriba, arriba!
I cannot think of a crueler and more destructive expression of homophobia in our time than having hundreds of thousands of teens be rejected by their families, deprived of love, and driven to utter destitution.
The summit was intended to set in motion policies to help Africa meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to curtail by 2015 poverty and disease among the billions of people who subsist in utter destitution.
"The cost of food has escalated by up to 500% in some places, leaving people who have suffered drought after drought in utter destitution.
