poverty

Examples of penury

penury
In short, colonial developmentalism was a partial, but powerful, answer to the pressures of increasing imperial penury, colonial protests and global polarization.
Facing penury he retired to a room over the garage, wrote twelve hours a day for five weeks, and rejoined the middle classes.
Well-meaning socio-linguists must not be the ghosts of future penury.
His fall was equally dramatic; he ended his days a drugged-out paranoid, hounded by the authorities and driven into penury.
The university also suffered from the general penury.
The expansion of private insurance and the defeat of national health insurance had been the profession's escape from the penury of government control.
Payments from the poor rates now dominated provision and were directed overwhelmingly at penury and subsistence, and ever less at enabling the independence of the labouring village family.
Detailed case studies of clowns reveal the penury of the majority of performers, their physical and comic skills, and the social comment inherent in their performances.
Theirs was not the life of freedom on the range, but a life of penury in which veeboeren sought by all manner of means to reduce their overhead costs.
However, in failing to provide a buoyant recycled form of revenue to the industry, they are condemning it to penury and to withering away.
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