| Price rises due to his stealth taxes have reduced thousands like me to utter 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. |
| Now, as then, a government is reducing its citizens to penury as they are deprived of their income and homes. |
| 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. |
| Women who believe they are in for a reasonable standard of living during widowhood, are to be step-by-step, reduced to penury. |
| If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury. |
