If our destitution is the result of our economic freedom, why maintain the pretense of preserving capitalism?. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
The most sordid destitution -- if ignorance of comfort can be called destitution -- reigned everywhere around. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » USC Professor Roberto Suro Wants Statue Of Liberty Message Erased] Reference
"little lad's" hand; now, grown feebler than the child, she trembled at the idea of destitution; she hoarded, and asked charity of the priests. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspirations of Jean Servien] Reference
And pining makes me desolate in destitution lain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The cases of destitution are comparatively very few. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
No oppression, no destitution could abate their zeal. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
He faced destitution two years ago, when he sold his insurance. From Wordnik.com. [Taking On 'Death Futures'] Reference
Seeing such destitution and the plight of women -- that certainly touched me. From Wordnik.com. ['I Told A Friend: Africa Changed Me'] Reference
However, I would still argue that old age is not what caused their destitution. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Political Union: YPU debates Michael Astrue, the National Commissioner of Social Security on "Resolved: The Yale Class of 2014 should and will receive social security benefits" (2010/09/13)] Reference
They all knew, though the widow would not own it, that destitution was at her door. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
River, near Brainerd, where they existed in drunkenness, barbarism and destitution. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
If I must be cast, in sickness or destitution, on the care of a stranger, let it be in. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
For any number of our miscreants in high places or high profile, destitution isn't an option. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Solution] Reference
How do you know that a legal protection against destitution must necessarily weaken moral restraint?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
But the majority still live in destitution, drowning in debts to the town pharmacy and grocery store. From Wordnik.com. [Not As Green As They Seem] Reference
'We have experience of the evils of periodical returns of destitution in Ireland; we see periodically. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Clare very shortly became homesick, and he returned to his parents in a state of complete destitution. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Thus, beings like ourselves daily wait in destitution on our compassion till we give them leave to live!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He gave alms to the poor, he cheered the heart of the widow, and lightened the destitution of the orphan. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
His threadbare coat had that look of neatness which marks that destitution has been met by a long struggle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But many Dalits, consigned to destitution, seem to view their champion's riches as a source of vicarious pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [India’s Anti-Obama] Reference
When women seek marriages, such as Naomi arranged for Ruth, it was to avoid an even worse fate such as destitution. From Wordnik.com. [Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Prop 8, Judge Walker and the Biblical View of Marriage Equality] Reference
The latest case of destitution I have heard of was the case of old Robert at the Oaks, cow-minder, -- you remember him. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
This at least is certain, that the fund has not been dispensed upon any extravagant views of the existence of destitution. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
The land was filled with widows and orphans crying for aid, which the universal destitution prevented them from receiving. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
There are three reasons we're constructing this whole system: one is the increasing cost of destitution with growing populations. From Wordnik.com. [Risky Weather] Reference
Nothing responded but his destitution, like the echo of a groan; and through such mental straits he arrived, at last, at The Stag. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Dr. Slocum, who gave a sketch of the terrible destitution of the forty thousand refugees and freedmen, who passed through this great thoroughfare. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Her prudence suggested to her another profession for him by the gains of which he might avoid the destitution which she saw hanging over his head. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
I think our problem is not so much poverty as destitution, what you might call absolute poverty where, if you don't have the money you starve to death. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Real India: Ashis Nandy's post-colonial "intimate enemies" (AUDIO)] Reference
By that singular perversity which opens up every suggestion of riotous expenditure to destitution, the poor fellow felt inclined to indulge himself regardless. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
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