(n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one of the richest countries in the world it is beyond belief that the richest get a top rate tax cut while the poorest are being forced into deepening destitution," he said.
(2) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(3) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
(4) For the most part, their journeys pass unseen, until they hit a barrier – the English Channel; the lines of police at Ventimiglia on the Italy-France border; the forests of Macedonia – that creates a bottleneck and leads to scenes of destitution and chaos.
(5) The government has just announced emergency aid for the destitute and the Greek Orthodox Church has revealed it is feeding 250,000 people a day.
(6) Housing First simply can’t tackle the problem – especially not in Skid Row, the downtown Los Angeles area synonymous with destitution.
(7) Four years since this crisis began, Syria’s people have been plunged into the dark: destitute, fearful, and grieving for the friends they have lost and the country they once knew,” said David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
(8) Until the early 2000s, the South had been presented to North Koreans in their official media as a destitute, near-starving colony of US imperialists.
(9) The need for a free medical sevice and rehabilitation of the disabled destitutes in Lagos is highlighted.
(10) The disease, destruction, and destitution created by the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf have resulted in increased international travel to affected countries for relief and reconstruction.
(11) Meanwhile, thousands of Haitians displaced by the disaster continue to live in makeshift housing, squalor and destitution.
(12) No one wants to support a charity or business that puts sick, disabled and unemployed people to work without pay on threat of destitution, and that is why workfare schemes will ultimately collapse."
(13) On Wednesday they debate the social fund – an awkward lump in the social security system, small potatoes, yet a last lifeline for the utterly destitute.
(14) Many of these children are destitute without families or from very poor landless families in rural areas.
(15) The subsequent property crash leaves the couple – and the rest of the island, and indeed the whole state – bankrupt and near destitute.
(16) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
(17) The RNIB's threat of legal action comes as Archbishop Nichols, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales, said the Coalition's benefits system was becoming increasingly "punitive" and was leaving people destitute .
(18) I guess time will tell.” Gopman spent the first half of 2015 expressing regret for dissing the destitute and attempting to tackle the problem.
(19) A middle-class made destitute in 2007-08 has been restored, Coltart added.
(20) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.
Paucity
Definition:
(n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
(n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(2) While the number of women with early stage breast cancer choosing the latter treatment continues to increase, there is a paucity of information in the nursing literature assessing the informational and psychosocial needs of this group.
(3) There is a paucity of informative data on the potentially important role of specific sites of chromosomal instability in oncogenic processes.
(4) The paucity of intermediate sequences indicated that strong selection pressure was exerted on this part of the envelope.
(5) Apart from the absence or paucity of endometrial glands, the clinical and pathological features of the lesions were similar to those of previously described cases of superficial endometriosis of the cervix.
(6) in the US the last ten years have witnessed an alarming recrudescence involving vast strata of the population and especially children, although this is masked by the paucity of reports, as is the case also in Italy.
(7) Alagille syndrome is characterized by the association of chronic cholestasis with a paucity of interlobular bile ducts and a distinctive facies together with cardiovascular, skeletal and eye abnormalities.
(8) The alveolar macrophages were increased in number and size but marked cytoplasmic vacuolation and a paucity of lysosomes are consistent with our previous suggestion that the phagocytic and migratory properties of these cells are weakened or inhibited.
(9) A variety of sources can account for marine pollution by genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic compounds, but there is a relative paucity of analytical data concerning the Mediterranean.
(10) In MND subjects, neurons in Onuf's nucleus at S2 were preserved despite a paucity of neurons in medial and lateral motor nuclei and were of similar size range to those in control subjects.
(11) The difficulties encountered in good experimental design in this formidable area, which may account for the paucity of work, are discussed.
(12) Vitamin D deficiency was characterized by an increase in proliferating cells, with a relative paucity of hypertrophic cells; EHDP treatment was characterized by an increase in hypertrophic cells.
(13) This paucity of abnormal features of gross development is consistent with findings in 3 previously reported patients with ring 17 chromosomes.
(14) Our observations demonstrate paucity of cell-mediated immune response in stromal keratitis.
(15) Seizures were rare and there was a paucity of localizing neurological signs.
(16) Understanding the mechanisms by which these oncogenes affect various cell types has been hampered by a paucity of experimental systems that reproduce the range of biological effects associated with them.
(17) Analysis based on the assumptions that solution dimensions are preserved, adsorption is random, and surface rearrangement is negligible indicates a paucity of surface sites.
(18) The discrepancy between the size of the tumour and the paucity of physical findings, the value of a multiple test auditory screening strategy, and the surgical approach in this case are discussed.
(19) The relatively infrequent use of CT in evaluating the adnexa has resulted in a paucity of literature regarding the CT characteristics of benign ovarian masses.
(20) The paucity of metholologic explorations is further aggravated by the constraints on communications regarding methodology.