destitution

He was thus brought almost to a state of destitution.

It was the only thing standing between her family and destitution.

You have forced the people into a life of destitution.

These people face huge medical costs and, too often, a life of destitution.

Many are eager to see the future world free from war and destitution.

He did not look away from the destitution sprawling below him.

Since neither had any private means, they were reduced at times to near destitution.

We have been told that she and the family are in a dreadful state of destitution.

They were just an illness or accident away from destitution.

Her home was looted and the family were left in destitution.

They were bound together by their need for money, and the terror of destitution.

Besides, in our state of destitution and famine we were not likely to be particular.

People who live in cage homes are often victims of destitution.

Destitution, he maintained, was in many cases not the fault of the poor.

These are the gateway to hard drugs, which lead to abuse and social destitution.

They are above all victims of poverty, destitution and oppression.

It makes people doomed to destitution and creates a huge number of problems for society.

Touched by the poverty and destitution in the city she began her charity work.

During the course of twenty-five years, the destitution was totally transformed.

In some cases people are being driven to destitution.

Within months, the panic had reduced thousands of people to sudden destitution.

Others avoid destitution by giving some of their money to their children.

They were men, and their destitution made his heart twist against its shackles.

In fact, his destitution had only depressed her more.

Sometimes close to destitution he never lost hope that his theory would one day be recognised.