penuryIn short, colonial developmentalism was a partial, but powerful, answer to the pressures of increasing imperialpenury, colonial protests and global polarization.From theCambridge English CorpusFacingpenuryhe retired to a room over the garage, wrote twelve hours a day for five weeks, and rejoined the middle classes.From theCambridge English CorpusWell-meaning socio-linguists must not be the ghosts of futurepenury.From theCambridge English CorpusHis fall was equally dramatic; he ended his days a drugged-out paranoid, hounded by the authorities and driven intopenury.From theCambridge English CorpusThe university also suffered from the generalpenury.From theCambridge English CorpusThe expansion of private insurance and the defeat of national health insurance had been the profession's escape from thepenuryof government control.From theCambridge English CorpusPayments from the poor rates now dominated provision and were directed overwhelmingly atpenuryand subsistence, and ever less at enabling the independence of the labouring village family.From theCambridge English CorpusDetailed case studies of clowns reveal thepenuryof the majority of performers, their physical and comic skills, and the social comment inherent in their performances.From theCambridge English CorpusTheirs was not the life of freedom on the range, but a life ofpenuryin which veeboeren sought by all manner of means to reduce their overhead costs.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, in failing to provide a buoyant recycled form of revenue to the industry, they are condemning it topenuryand to withering away.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0His widow is then put upon thispenurybasis.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Thepenuryof the masses accompanies, as ever, avid enhances the relative wealth of the few.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In its view, the alternative would be chronicpenuryin that highly depressed area.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Now even rural and agricultural communities are being thrown into disarray and evenpenury.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In that case, therefore, for a purely fortuitous reason, the widow is either condemned topenuryor is assured modest comfort.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/penury##
