Sentences with phrase «become beggars»

Citing what he says is the situation in Kenya, Dr Draman said when MPs leave office in few months they become beggars, disillusioned and some die because they do not fulfill their main reason for going to Parliament which is to get ministerial appointment.

My brother who was suppose to provide succour to the family after getting the job has rather become a beggar, draining from the little the family is managing with in this time of economic recession just to get to work daily.

«But 61 years down the line, it appears our nation has become a beggar nation, almost always calabashing, trotting the globe and seeking for favours,» Bernard Mornah told 3news.com's Alfred Ocansey on Tuesday.

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There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

A beggar became able to work.

Just remember this, the next time you visit a holy temple, don't forget to observe those who are outside - nothing changes when you come out, no prayer makes the beggar filthy hungry man become rich in a minute, but You can feed him, at least once, and that to me is real....

Perhaps, because he was a beggar, he never had access to nutritious food or to health care, and so became blind.

He knows it is «Messiah time,» the time when the blind see and the poor have their debts canceled and beggars become citizens again (cf. Luke 7:22 - 23) Who would have thought that a blind beggar would know it was this time?

The beggar becomes a disciple, committed to a new life of obedience.

So it beggars belief that at a time when there are more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think - tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.

Why Edward Heath, when he became prime minister, kept him on as his Chief Scientific Adviser beggars belief, especially as earlier, when he was Leader of the Opposition, Heath had referred to Zuckerman as a «professor of tadpoles».

Especially when Belle, who is a book worm, tries to teach a small girl to read and when Luke Evans (Gaston) puts up a marriage proposal to Belle saying that all those who end up lonely become as good as a beggar on the street.

There were great designers such as Louis Bleriot, who flew across the English Channel, the first man to do so, with a foot so badly burned that he had to be lifted in and out of his seat; Thomas Scott Baldwin, «Cap» t Tom,» inventor of the flexible parachute and incomparable showman, who almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, who after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador took to aviation and within months became the preeminent flyer in the world; Harriet Quimby, an actress and journalist who cajoled flying lessons from her employer to become the first woman to receive a pilot's license and then the first to cross the English Channel; and Glenn Curtiss's most famous flyer, Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the finest aviator the world has ever seen, a man who boasted so many «firsts,» «bests,» and «never before dones» that his exploits would beggar credibility had they not all been documented by eyewitnesses.

Sure, if enough people do it, one of the beggars is bound to win the lottery, but the rest will only become masters at managing their humiliation with cheap hootch.

What's more, it's worth repeating that Amazon Publishing's most successful titles to date have been translations: German writer Oliver Pötzsch — whose Hangman's Daughter series includes The Hangman's Daughter (2010), The Dark Monk (2012), and The Beggar King (2013)-- has become the first Amazon Publishing author to sell one million copies in combined print, audio, and Kindle English language editions worldwide.

Büttner's Beggar is nominated for this year's Turner prize, but here among the millionaires — in a year when the inequalities of London and beyond became impossible to ignore — it has a special urgency.

Recent volumes have become attempts at capturing the acoustic nature of this world in transit, the snippets of overheard conversation, the plea of the beggar, the muttering of the insane, the announcements of the conductor and the screech of the braking train.

Please don't become a honey beggar.