The United Nations Secretary-General has warned the war in Ukraine threatens to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution around the world.
Most of the credit, however, must go to capitalism and free trade, for they enable economies to grow—and it was growth, principally, that has eased destitution.
Her mother had died, her father had abandoned them, and They were convicted of destitution and sent off to industrial schools, which are like borstals.
Many were the cries of astonishment and of commiseration which arose from them when they perceived the youth of one of the strangers and the destitution of the other.
How can poetry connect us to other people who live in separate lives of this shared World of War, Financial destitution, political turmoil, and human atrocities.
He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their destitution; their misery, both physical and moral; their distance; and, at last, of their unavenged wrongs.
His next known movement was in 1786, when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution.
And she was somebody who dealt with a lot of heartache, including her first husband dying and being terrified of living in destitution and poverty as a single mother.