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Sentence Examples Instead he is modeling himself on the party's alchemist who rebuilt the welfare state and ran a budget surplus in a time of penury. I will reduce myself to penury to save you from the evils of gambling, even if it means winning millions of pounds. In a globalized economy, it imposes penury on trading partners, especially the poorest countries. In overcoming that penury, modern technology as well as economic interrelations have been influential. But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients. Asianet, whose stringer he used to be, has pretty much dumped him, and his legal expenses have reduced him to penury. The only consolation, we may feel, was that a portion of the money that war yielded was used to obliviate the penury of wretched almsmen. Price rises due to his stealth taxes have reduced thousands like me to utter penury. Women who believe they are in for a reasonable standard of living during widowhood, are to be step-by-step, reduced to penury. Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury. If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury. They realize that their reduction to penury is due to discrimination against their blackness on the part of whites and blacks alike. Keeping horses at livery and going out hunting are expensive pursuits that are totally unaffordable by those claiming penury status. Having been reduced to penury, struggling to survive, they no longer serve as an effective political opposition. Now, as then, a government is reducing its citizens to penury as they are deprived of their income and homes. Bastille Day in France commemorates the French Revolution and reminds us of one of the most unpleasant and blood-soaked regimes ever to have reduced a country to penury. Falling in love with a tea vendor could suit the infatuated young mind but when it comes to marriage she is able to visualise the agony of penury and gets out of the affair. It follows that you don't have to reduce yourself to utter penury. Perhaps it was unavoidable, yet it was a road that led past ruin, default and penury, through the plunder of Russia and the impoverishment of Russians. It may be true that there are among Buddhist mendicants, living on alms in dirt and penury, some who feel perfectly happy and do not envy any nabob. Show More Sentences Only in Kent and in Wales did the custom of gavelkind produce the partible inheritance which reduced many noble families to penury on the continent. Naturally, legal and licit means have to be used to put an end to scarcity and penury. Maggie, through wit and beauty, has escaped a childhood of penury but finds herself suffering in an unfulfilling marriage to Brick. He writes of penury, mud, flea-bitten puttees, a tired greatcoat, wet boots, a damp bedroll plus fireside sing-songs with murderous gypsies. It needs to be jolted out of any belief that Greeks can be made to return mostly Germany's reckless loans by being plunged into perpetual penury. They take terrible risks with their lives and the lives of their children in order to escape persecution or penury. Not so long ago we took it for granted that inventors lived lives of penury and ended up as charitable cases. But historically, pensions were also the way that good employers helped workers to save so that they could avoid penury in old age. We have been told that although penury is by no means the sole cause of this unhappy situation, it has been an important contributing factor. This interest is generally limited by the scarcity, penury or obsolescence of the material resources available, and by the human capacities. He moves to Paris where, together with Francisco Luis Bernárdez, he leads a carefree life of daily parties which ends in economic penury. Poverty and illiteracy prevent the marginalized from using the very instruments that might help lift them out of their penury. Or perhaps the plague of strawberry Quick-flavored meth that was luring children into a life of addiction and penury. But war, international sanctions and economic penury have all but extinguished the ancient craftsmanship passed on from father to son for generations. On the whole, it is an earnest attempt to preserve traditional crafts from extinction and to help skilled craftsmen and weavers, who are living in penury. He's reclining on a couch looking surprisingly relaxed and amused as he relates the story of how penury forced him into such an unusual career choice. Well, any reader wishing to help Jason escape the cold streets of penury and warm himself by the fire of solvency should begin rummaging for shrapnel in their pockets now. The judge replied that most asylum-seekers who were threatened with penury couldn't get near the few underpaid lawyers who were prepared to give them a hearing. Relative obscurity and penury, her anthem claims, rule just as hard as the point-oh-oh-one percent realm of excess and access. Larry, it looks like traveling up the royal road you slashed through the forest of penury. Show More Sentences It was her penury and negligence that let the house deteriorate. He was not a poverty-stricken peasant's son looking to escape penury. Officials insist they are moving as fast as they can to overhaul their labour laws and improve conditions for construction workers, who face privation, penury and harsh restrictions on workplace rights in the Gulf state. In the Himalayas, village life hard at the best of times deteriorates into chaos and penury even for the advantaged when a Nepalese insurgency takes over the town. Olympians die in penury and in want of medical attention. Old age, penury, Mr Cameron, Mr Brown: they are all incriminated. Downtrodden, reduced to penury and almost starving under the Facist regime of Benito Mussolini, they welcomed the young Canadians with open arms. It was also on the road to penury, thanks to Mutharika's increasingly eccentric economic policies and his alienation of the foreign donors upon which Malawi relies. The sad experience of the 1920s and 1930s should remind us that protectionism, however disguised, leads through a vicious circle of retaliation and further restriction to penury. At the Altamirano Hospital, where the Daughters of Charity work, she was aware of the scarcity of medicines, and a real penury of doctors, especially pediatricians, which forces them to turn away sick children. The more pessimistic fear a drift towards becoming the next North Korea a regime that brandishes nuclear weapons at the outside world while its people slide into penury. There was not much money to spare but it was not penury. The hardship, penury and hunger of the early 1930s is etched in the collective memory of older Americans. A fairly prosperous family has now been reduced to penury. Half of the population is in penury, and half is under 16 years old. Noting this penury, to my selfe I said, An if a man did need a poyson now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here liues a Caitiffe wretch would sell it him. Examples from Classical Literature She experienced the most afflictive reverses of friendlessness, bereavement, imprisonment, and penury. Had he learned to carp at the rich, and to make honesty the excuse for all penury? This explains the extreme penury of history outside the dry descriptions of the nomenclator. They had lived as many had lived who have no different excuse to plead for their penury. If there were no penury and no pain, what would become of fortitude? Whereas, contrariwise, the close and reserved living of noblemen and gentlemen, causeth a penury of military forces. Formerly he had never been alarmed by the penury of his little home. The Admiral had in one hour been reduced from opulence to penury. The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity. For the badge of penury is desire, the badge of wealth contempt. Elton's notice and the penury of her conversation, rather than return to the superior companions who have always loved her with such real, generous affection. Find more words! 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