How To Use Destitution In A Sentence
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The word "ragamuffin," which I have used above, does not accurately express the man, because there is a sort of shadow or delusion of respectability about him, and a sobriety too, and a kind of decency in his groggy and red-nosed destitution.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
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Unfortunately, she does not have the skills to pay the bills, and her farm quickly slips into destitution.
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The scenes of destitution and misery qualify the film's upbeat ending.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most sordid destitution -- if ignorance of comfort can be called destitution -- reigned everywhere around.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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The destitution is so great, so nearly insurmountable, the conditions so desperate, even in the rich fertile area of Russia, not to mention other countries, that in spite of widespread private generosity, what can be provided constitutes only a drop in the ocean.
Fridtjof Nansen - Nobel Lecture
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Despite the fact that the destitution still lingers in my mind, trips like these strengthen the morale within a squad.
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He told Mr Justice Collins: ‘It is inhumane to subject someone to that sort of destitution.’
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It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed
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In fact the utter destitution of the desperate was not just predicted: it was planned for.
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Far from destitution, Britain would undoubtedly thrive and prosper.
The Sun
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Name, age, occupation, place of birth, condition of destitution, and the previous night's "doss," were taken with lightning-like rapidity by the superintendent; and as I turned I was startled by a man's thrusting into my hand something that felt like
THE SPIKE
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Likely scoopful no menura for the truculent loutish on this web shrub, but does arcadic crete of the mouthful colonizer dangerously forgivably each. of my cherokee lampyridae fickleness from my uncured propanal, wedlock, trombiculid, and espial from my destitution.
Rational Review
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She was celebrated for her poetic talent, her stunning beauty during her youth, her trifling with amorous men, and her suffering from decrepitude and destitution in old age.
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Others, regardless of their wounds, destitution, or dead-end occupations received disability benefits, but no invitation to retrain for new careers.
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Since the consequences of undersaving (destitution in one's old age) seem more dire than those of oversaving (unnecessary frugality in one's productive years), if the decision of how much to save is left to individuals, most of them, being risk-averse, will oversave.
Libertarian Basics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It was difficult to believe that his subjection to opium could much longer resist the stings of his own conscience, and the solicitations of his friends, as well as the pecuniary destitution to which his _opium habits_ had reduced him.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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The methods are not pretty: violence and imprisonment are the penalties for non-cooperation; destitution is the reward for compliance.
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Having marginalised itself into near-irrelevance under a 'disorganic' leader, the UNP is in a hopelessly self-destructive mode, driving itself to electoral extinction and its supporters to political destitution and deepest despair.
Groundviews
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More than two million other people from Darfur are in extreme destitution, immediately requiring aid.
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This was the troubling existence of social division; the co-existence of affluence and destitution; of learning with ignorance; of sobriety with dissipation and dissolution.
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They are by far the largest group amongst the fifth of India's population who live in extreme poverty and destitution.
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Those strips of land were the line between wellbeing and destitution.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sykes, a father-of-four, had been laid off from his job as a puddler at a Rotherham iron works in 1865, forcing him to turn to poaching to stave off destitution.
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You are aware that my father-once reckoned a Croesus of wealth — became bankrupt a short time previous to his death, and that my mother lived in destitution for some six months after him, unhelped by her aristocratical brothers, whom she had mortally offended by her union with Crimsworth, the — — shire manufacturer.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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Those countries that still wallow in destitution and underdevelopment do so not because of western imperialism, racism or oppression but because of policies they have largely chosen for themselves by socialist planning or had forced upon them by civil war and revolution.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Yet Suro doesn’t account for the fact that, for many immigrants, shear economic destitution is often what drives ambition and any sense of adventure.
Wonk Room » USC Professor Roberto Suro Wants Statue Of Liberty Message Erased
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Seaweed farming was an important part of the Japanese farmers' diets and after suffering years of unreliable harvests they were facing destitution.
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When abusive behaviour is deeply entrenched in our communities it is not the material destitution, the social ills and historical legacy that fuel the abuse epidemics.
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Destitution has become a major problem in the capital.
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Those strips of land were the line between wellbeing and destitution.
Times, Sunday Times
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Messiah, his seductive arts and successes, the mass hysteria around him, his fall and the breaking up of illusions in destitution and new illusion, or in penance and purity.
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
XVI. Essays. New England Reformers. A Lecture Read before the Society in Amory Hall on Sunday, March 3, 1844
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Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start.
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Yes, I says, I would see myself telling you, wouldn't I and you blabbing it the next time a lot of them church women meets at our house and some old church deacon getting hold of it and getting rich off of it and me wandering the streets in destitution with the rain running down often my beard and the end of my nose because you and the children cast me into the street.
Chapter Eight: The Old Soak's History -- More Evils of Prohibition
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Their philanthropy saved people from destitution.
Times, Sunday Times
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If in two months stories of starvation and destitution continue to emerge out of Aceh, severe criticism will rain down on the government.
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In this watershed sequence, the oblique angles and edgy camerawork signal the presence of Jeffrey's gaze as his invisible aura surrounds Susan in her destitution.
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But he added: 'The basic safety net to guarantee people would not be left in hunger or destitution has been torn apart.
The Sun
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We know nothing of course, but we do not remotely know even this, and mere assertion in no way ameliorates our destitution.
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They live in destitution while the land yields billions of dollars annually to the people who took it away.
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she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter
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This form of destitution in the midst of plenty is not only morally obscene; it has social consequences which affect everyone.
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They circulated a joke that reflected both their disappointment with Soviet stinginess and their own destitution.
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The 19th-century Church provided elementary education in areas of great destitution where no other option was available.
Times, Sunday Times
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Destitution has become a major problem in the capital.
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Instead, they have delivered poverty and destitution.
The Sun
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There his mean-spirited Uncle Stan and his kinder but stroke-stricken Aunt Flor live mainly by gathering withies for basket-making, but are now on the edge of destitution.
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Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.
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Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.
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But it was not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating -- unredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos.
The Jungle
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[Page 126] one end of society and the destitution at the other; but it assumes that this overaccumulation and destitution is most sorely felt in the things that pertain to social and educational privileges.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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The author cites Victorian novels showing that a smoky hearth symbolized the warmth and comfort of a loving family, while a fireless house indicated destitution.
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The scenes of destitution and misery qualify the film's upbeat ending.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ostentatious wealth of the new rich only served to highlight the destitution of the rest of society.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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Far from destitution, Britain would undoubtedly thrive and prosper.
The Sun
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Preppers refer to nonpreppers as 'sheeple': blindly following the herd into destitution, oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chasm between privilege and utter destitution made me uncomfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
