Condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs.
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Examples for "destitution"
Examples for "destitution"
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It puts every ordinary working family at risk of falling into destitution.
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This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
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There are millions of people living in destitution crying out for help.
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The cause of the destitution of the proletariat are then set forth.
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Yet it was still in a pitiable state of weakness and destitution.
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And that was the truth; for their comfort had changed into penury.
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They lived in penury for three years before returning to San Diego.
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I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
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He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury.
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His penury coincided with the peak of his power, influence, and celebrity.
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Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged.
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And how could she, in her all but absolute poverty, do anything?
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His condition of absolute poverty had not yet lost the flavour of novelty.
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He incurred some debts and was soon reduced to absolute poverty.
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We go from absolute poverty to the lap of luxury.
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This organisation provides a safe space for children living in extreme poverty.
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It came because people were pushed backwards into extreme poverty, he said.
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Get Foxtel The raises awareness about extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability issues.
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Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.
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But what does that mean for the people living in extreme poverty?
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And having been so rich, now we find ourselves in extreme poverty.
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At Paris and London he suffered extreme poverty, although admired in society.
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The bareness of extreme poverty marked everything on which my eyes rested.
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About 12 million live in extreme poverty, lacking clean water and basic services.
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You see poverty, extreme poverty as a threat to national security.
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Progress made in reducing extreme poverty since 1990 was at risk.
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He organises free music programmes for children living in extreme poverty in Panama.
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This figure amounts to 689 million people living in extreme poverty.
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The headline gain is a fall in extreme poverty for 36 million people.
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In cases of extreme poverty the assessors may remit the poll-tax.
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Kim has set as a World Bank priority ending extreme poverty by 2030.
