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Meanings of privation in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "poverty"
Examples for "poverty"
1
Kosovo's appalling environmental problems are part of a deeper problem: chronic poverty.
2
Food poverty is a huge problem in Ireland and throughout the EU.
3
The company said it wanted to tackle period poverty in New Zealand.
4
We want greater recognition of the depth of the food poverty problem.
5
They talk a good game about prosperity, but deliver crime and poverty.
1
It puts every ordinary working family at risk of falling into destitution.
2
This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
3
There are millions of people living in destitution crying out for help.
4
The cause of the destitution of the proletariat are then set forth.
5
Yet it was still in a pitiable state of weakness and destitution.
1
And that was the truth; for their comfort had changed into penury.
2
They lived in penury for three years before returning to San Diego.
3
I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
4
He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury.
5
His penury coincided with the peak of his power, influence, and celebrity.
1
I am lost in indigence; do confer on me Thy greatest favor.
2
Families who had lived in opulence found themselves suddenly reduced to indigence.
3
Our relations; who enjoyed all our property, had reduced us to indigence.
4
The greatest misfortune has befallen Egypt: its rulers are threatened with indigence.
5
The conditions referred to are affluence and indigence, as explained by Nilakantha.
Usage of privation in английском
1
His happiness was evidently incomplete in the privation of a similar pair.
2
One great privation in this winter travelling is the want of water.
3
It was meant to be boom-time after decades of war and privation.
4
Another is reared in poverty and has to toil and suffer privation.
5
Nor had the privation of the long journey dimmed in my mind.
6
Nor had foraging put them in a condition to bear renewed privation.
7
This is a generation with little experience of privation or economic worry.
8
We better ourselves by the privation of our reason, and drilling it.
9
The fortnight had been one of severe privation and discipline to her.
10
Scholars have found poverty tolerable compared with the privation of intellectual food.
11
For the rest, he was dark and gaunt from exposure and privation.
12
The mother was a girl of twenty, worn with hardship and privation.
13
And as the form is a perfection, so privation removes a perfection.
14
It stood for years of privation, heart-breaking toil, and disappointment-theworst kind.
15
The trap was, to a large extent, insurance against privation and hardship.
16
The histories of strife and privation did not move her a hair's-breadth.
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