| Asianet, whose stringer he used to be, has pretty much dumped him, and his legal expenses have reduced him to penury. |
| But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients. |
| If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury. |
| In overcoming that penury, modern technology as well as economic interrelations have been influential. |
| 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. |
| Women who believe they are in for a reasonable standard of living during widowhood, are to be step-by-step, reduced to penury. |
