Sentences with word «penury»

Also coming in was highly promising German international midfielder Marko Marin from Werder Bremen for # 7 million, Brazilian international wonderkid Oscar from Internacional for the cheap at # 25 million, Cesar Azpilicu - something from Marseille for # 7 million, Victor Moses from Wigan for # 9 million, and the younger brother of Eden Hazrd for a relative penury of # 0.5 million from Lens.

This is because there is life after sports as some Nigerians sports personalities live in penury despite excelling in their chosen sports.

In trying to equate Liam's sudden descent into penury with the plight of his country's deprived underclass, however, Boorman ends up with a film as unconvincing as Cattrall's Irish accent.

Despite penury and isolation, Iran's scientists have pursued an ambitious agenda.

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.

Thornberry may have been brought up on in penury on a council estate, but that can not excuse her crass insensitivity, political stupidity and arrogant, patronising contempt for the working class.

The other side of the story is what David Broder aptly characterizes as «public penury.»

An agricultural peasantry could be reduced to utter penury by famine conditions, and in the Sudan recently, they have been.

Poverty is not just penury.

The state chapter of the PDP added that, under Fayemi, pensioners and civil servants are subjected to poverty and penury since the government will not pay them salary arrears, with deductions to their co-operative societies being owed up to five months.

«A situation where the governor and his cotterie of largely unproductive political appointees display ostentatious wealth while civil servants wallow in naked penury, is condemnable, to say the least.»

He said Nigerians had seen the best of the ruling APC in the state, and at the feudal level, saying there best had plunged the people into abject penury but he gave an assurance that the PDP would come out stronger in 2018 to rescue the people from further hardship.

Such a person will not to do anything illegal that would enable him or her to escape living in penury after service.

To flourish: «Even if penury encourages ministers to take shortcuts, a lack of cash for security projects will help.

This is how we got the three - strikes law and mandatory lifetime incarceration, along with a lifetime of guaranteed penury for those same children.

Penury served, time to set off on the B - road route.

Yes, you may laugh at me living in student penury from your...

He then removed a single coin, plunging his «family» of awkward sculptures into state defined penury.

They argue that the kind of conceptualist artists the Turner has tended to champion are increasingly unrepresentative of what they call «real artists» struggling in obscure penury.

Outsourcing the parochial know - how was never a serious option and the trend currently is more toward on - shoring in this regard, but essentially primary sources are becoming more freely available, support staff powered by PLC are better at getting front line negotiators up to speed than librarians ever could be and GCs preach penury but practice recruitment.

The man is reduced to penury while the woman lives the high life with many vacations and spas visits etc and nobody to tell her not to spend every penny the family earns.

(Erm, yes, I know I've done a fair bit of moaning about penury lately, but the trip was booked and paid for a year ago, when I was fully employed and unaware I would be a housewife.)

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).

Do we look like we care??? I do nt fancy anybody from the arsenal board... but if i should make a wish, its i hope Stan ends up broke and lives in penury..

In a short time, the Central State has borrowed sums so staggering that it has no choice but to either inflate the debt away, thereby destroying the savings and income of its remaining productive citizenry, or by taxing these same productive citizens to the point of penury.

Al - Anaam sura 06: Say: Come, I will recite unto you that which your Lord hath forbidden to you: that ye ascribe no thing as partner unto Him and that ye do good to parents, and that ye slay not your children because of penury — We provide for you and for them — and that ye draw not nigh to lewd things whether open or concealed.

The blockade of the Danish kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars had left Norway in penury.

On the other side was a tribal brotherhood of nomads where, amid the penury of the wilderness, all must be for each and each for all, where land and water were never private but always communal, where none was very rich or very poor, where every one was known to all and the exigencies of desert life forced a rough but sturdy justice.

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

Today, like the poet's «lions... in unvanquishable number», Labour vastly outnumbers its opponents in terms of members and is even, after many years of penury, reportedly flush with cash.

• We have seen a cynical approach to politics that exploits the penury of the poor and the vulnerability of the marginalised.

«We have endured nine years of total failure; nine years of economic devastation; nine years of infrastructural decay; nine years of underdevelopment; nine years of hunger; nine years of disease; nine years of penury.

The people still live in penury.

I have met the hairdressers, the vulcanizers, the tailors and the food sellers, who have been reduced to penury, because their businesses could not survive the energy crisis.

«Our people are languishing in penury, no employment and our economy is bad.

Penury and insecurity are not, after all, laws of nature.

Most of this stems from the fact that academia is an environment steeped in penury.

Her message is clear: Many women with no access to support systems will choose abortion over a marginal existence and penury.

Mudbound explores the plight of blacks and whites alike, united in their penury, and also movingly shows how oppressed and conflicted women from varied races and educational backgrounds formed sisterhoods out of mutual human needs.

The production design gleams, fusing sophisticated, gentrified wealth with agricultural peasantry and penury, aesthetically rooting the audience in late 19th century England, undoubtedly spectacular but not imposing enough to salvage the film from its overall narrative shortcomings.

He discusses depression and his years of penury

All those who wrote such articles enjoy comfortable upper - middle class lives; do they want to reduce teachers to penury?

Despite their penury, they manage to have fun and take joy in activities like riding the subway trains to the end of the line and exploring new neighborhoods.

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

Think liver failure, carpal tunnel syndrome, madness, and penury.

Finally, while it's important to be aware of — and prepare in advance for — the impact a market downturn might have on your retirement prospects, you should also keep in mind that even a significant market setback doesn't necessarily doom you to a post-career life of penury.