Sentences with phrase «into penury»

A decade from now, as grids collapse and businesses and households are driven into penury, because they can no longer afford their rocketing power bills, the current generation will have plenty of time to lament (albeit, sitting freezing or boiling in the dark).

Mortgage yourself into penury to attend a «top - tier» school if you are one of the 2 % admitted.

Not exact matches

Finished Joe Louis» autobiography a recently and it's sad to reflect on how so many great fighters fade away into obscurity and penury.

On one level this is a rags - to - riches story — Joaquín displayed as a «freak» in order to save his family from penury — but the film taps into a series of anxieties around the politics of display that prove genuinely unsettling.