Penury

All of this, of course, is bad for children, who typically follow their mothers — but not their fathers — into penury.

Not since Cold Mountain (2003) has a Kidman character missed a meal, and not since Far and Away (1992) has one experienced real penury.

Democracy, therefore, was considered incompatible with a condition of slavery, servitude or penury, and those fated to such conditions could only be excised from the body politic.

Given his penury, he could not hire either a pair of bulls or a tractor to till the land, when his daughters volunteered to help him on the chores.

The days when a job in politics is seen as the most lucrative option out of penury should become history.

The scenario above seems to mirror the feeling of millions of Nigerians who are pinned to the wall by poverty and penury.

A large number of depositors could be reduced to penury in case of a bank failure.

Any other choice, any type of protest vote is a vote for Mr Corbyn and national penury.

Becky, on the other hand, is a tough, self-reliant survivor who has come through penury, depression and sexual abuse and is thoroughly enjoying her celebrity status.

Recently Ranu Mondal sang her way to fame with Lata Mangeshkar’s ‘Ek Pyaar Ka Nagma Hai’ from penury and anonymity.

They are not entitled to hand-out and they can languish in penury?

Walser, who was born in 1878 into a moderately prosperous family based in Biel, Switzerland, experienced penury early in life, when his father went bankrupt.

Ayade who has been critical of the way donor funds are spent, also sued for a new philosophy in leadership as against the trend where public office holders amass wealth while allowing a large population of the society perish in penury.

He recognizes the fact that nothing strives in a precarious environment as according to him the end of war is always devastation, hunger, penury and squalor.

In Amy Leach’s vigorous production, it brings a note of humour to rub up against the Victorian penury, disturbing apparitions and grouchy misanthropy.

Rather, you’ve chosen to saddle yourself with hungry lions and dead woods that you’ve resurrected from penury and oblivion.

Years later, after he left the University of Ilorin to be the General Overseer of the Church, “panmo” was their delicacy in their penury.

In cases of financial penury such persons face extreme living conditions.

On several occasions, Des Grieux's wealth evaporates (by theft, in a house fire, etc.), prompting Manon to leave him for a richer man because she cannot stand the thought of living in penury.

When Eva was a year old, Duarte returned permanently to his legal family, leaving Juana Ibarguren and her children in penury.