Destitution in a sentence

It added: “Increasing the Immigration Health Surcharge by 66 percent and increasing visa costs will push ever more people into destitution and poverty.

Mr. Steiner said a “toxic mix” was being created of poverty, destitution, and lack of opportunity, with so many citing the “urgent need to find livelihoods”.

The article goes on to quote the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s definition of destitution as "going without the essentials needed to eat, stay warm and dry, and keep clean".

And by mid-July, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face what the IPC characterised as the worst of hunger – an “extreme lack of food” – and severe levels of starvation, destitution and acute malnutrition.

At the end of the Cold War, in the late 1980s, 40 percent of the world population lived in destitution, also defined as extreme poverty.

Despite the destitution, Pinki is adamant that she will not let it defeat her.

From her, plunging her into deep waters of poverty, disease, destitution and depression?

He worked as a coal merchant, but fell into destitution and resolved that should he get out of it, he'd devote his life to helping the poor and working man.

High Court judge ordered the Home Office to cancel an entire charter flight to Spain on the grounds that it would place asylum seekers on board at risk of destitution or street homelessness.

Many women and girls are unable to leave a violent home for fear of abandonment and economic destitution.

The official said women were much less likely to have access to old-age pensions compared to men, so the death of a spouse can lead to destitution for older women.

Bajgai – who sold his own wife’s kidney before marrying her – said widespread destitution in Nepal meant he had thousands of willing donors.

For the almost four in every five Kenyans who lack access to medical insurance, the fear that they are just an accident or serious illness away from destitution.

In the mean time, famine, destitution will continue unabated and “belt tightening” and “international statesmanship of the anointed one” will be new slogan of the PF horde of brainwashed mongrels.

It’s not about poverty either or homelessness or destitution because an average Kashmiri is wealthier than your average Bihari, Bengali, or Oriya.

Poverty and destitution are stubbornly high: around 10 million children are out of school, a quarter of citizens lack access to safe drinking water, and half are living below the $1.90 poverty line.

She said it had kept her and her children, aged one to four years old, from near destitution after she escaped a bad six-year relationship.

These figures show clearly how harsh, punitive Conservative policies like the five week wait in universal credit are pushing people to the point of destitution.

Field, a former Labour minister in charge of welfare reform, said: “The government knows perfectly well there have been real cuts in benefits that have particularly hit families with children and this has led to hardship and destitution.

First Lady Madame Professor Gertrude Mutharika said orphanhood and child destitution can be reduced if women get screened and get treated of cervical cancer at an early stage.