As U.S. Ambassador to the Rome based U.N. Food and Agriculture agencies I already know most of their stories- the flight from famine, the twin depravations of Somalia's abject poverty and political insecurity, the mounting death toll... ❋ Ertharin Cousin (2011)
The depravations of the 1.6 million residents of Gaza caused by the Israel-imposed blockade, as well as the resulting 40% unemployment and poverty rates that are among the worst in the world, should be condemned. ❋ Richard Eisendorf (2010)
Sure, some great art has come out of various depredations, degradations and depravations, but most people aren't cut out to be great artists, and most suffering is just suffering, not character building, or artistic fodder. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
I've gotten raked over the coals for suggesting that the depravations of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation created genuine dysfunctions that ravage the black community, contributing to fatherless children, crime, disease, and inability to recognise opportunity. ❋ Steven Barnes (2009)
I fear however, that we will not be ready to tackle things in the manner alluded to, until we have descended even lower, and the layers of generations of spoilt brats, have tasted the real depravations which are on the way. raymond joseph douglas ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Paul Dacre and Melanie Phllips are quite right to highlight the potential implications for our society, should the establishment seek to use this judgement and or the HRA to limit the Press's freedom to expose depravations and moral corruption amongst those who may seek or occupy positions of public authority over us." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Paul Dacre and Melanie Phllips are quite right to highlight the potential implications for our society, should the establishment seek to use this judgement and or the HRA to limit the Press's freedom to expose depravations and moral corruption amongst those who may seek or occupy positions of public authority over us. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the "United States of Coal," Appalachia has become the poster child for strip mining's worst depravations, which come in the form of mountaintop removal. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Beyond the depravations, poverty and shortages caused by the blockade, over 700 Palestinian students are imprisoned in Gaza: actively prevented by Israel from fulfilling a human right that belongs to every student on earth - the right to education, self-development, and to serve the progression of collective learning, both for their community and the academic communities they will contribute to. ❋ Unknown (2008)
None of this is to deny that Christian Palestinians like their Muslim neighbors suffer economic depravations. ❋ Unknown (2007)
An entire industry devoted to the promotion of New Age thinking is one example of the fruit of such opportunities; the century just ended, with its seemingly endless string of depravations and atrocities committed in the name of nationalism, Fascism, and Marxism is quite another. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But being quite incurable, and meeting with no sympathy, except among people who aspired to them only, and failed — if they ever got the chance of failing — these depravations from the standard of mankind drove Christopher Bert from the beaten tracks of life. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The notes which I have borrowed or written are either illustrative, by which difficulties are explained; or judicial, by which faults and beauties are remarked; or emendatory, by which depravations are corrected. ❋ Unknown (2004)
His comick scenes are happily wrought, but his pathetick strains are always polluted with some unexpected depravations. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And if the poverty and its depravations sometimes seemed to consume her, she found her comforts in the church, and her sister's loving marriage. ❋ Steven Barnes (2000)
