Sentences with phrase «penury of»

In France, there is a penury of female directors, presidents, and heads of cultural institutions and this announcement marks a further regression in parity in the strikingly masculine French art world.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

«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 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.»

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

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

He discusses depression and his years of 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.

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.

Many of these young poets and artists had moved to New York in the late 1940s to learn from older downtown painters such as de Kooning, Pollock and Kline, who had worked for decades in isolation and penury.

The Pennsylvania - born portraitist spent much of her life in penury, suffered violence at the hands of her long - term lover Sam Brody, lost one child to death and another to abduction (by her husband, the Cuban artist Carlos Enríquez)...

Living for most of her adult life in penury, she painted everyone she encountered on the streets of New York, from prostitutes to brush salesmen, museum curators to transsexuals... Her abiding subject, though, remained her extended family.»

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.

From the Soho set of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud to penury in Suffolk, the rise and fall of The Two Roberts - Colquhoun and MacBryde

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).

Thirteen years of socialism have reduced the UK to penury & G. Brown has a $ 3 million pension.

Which all begs the question that since Pachauri is not a poor man, nor are any of his institutions in penury, why did they not request the full audit that could have gone much further in providing reassurance?

Fortunately I've discovered the last season of Californication in the TV cabinet, which was purchased prior to penury.