Sentences with phrase «penury on»
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.
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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.
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.
Penury served, time to set off on the B - road route.
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.
They were isolated and living in penury and for whatever reason, we had become friends and I felt it was incumbent on me to go and visit them and cheer them up, I would get in my car and drive to see them.
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.»
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.