Sentences with phrase «endured privation»

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To have no god but the God of Christ, after all, means today that we must endure the lenten privations of what is most certainly a dark age, and strive to resist the bland solace, inane charms, brute viciousness, and dazed passivity of post-Christian culture — all of which are so tempting precisely because they enjoin us to believe in and adore ourselves.

Those who came freely — the immigrants — and those who came in chains — the black slaves — had to endure great privations before they could achieve full citizenship.

I want to be a credit to my profession, but not if it means enduring this kind of inhuman privation.

And yet the family endures despite privation, even despite the hurricane.