Knowing that I might be one of very few Swahili speakers around and how destitute she may feel about that I impatiently waited in front of the theatre in Wroclaw before her performance.

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For the rest of her life, my mother would be plagued by the fear that she would run out of money and end up destitute.

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Those who could afford to buy insurance would be less reluctant to leave their homes in the face of a storm, and more public money would then be available to help the destitute.

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The 21 Americans in the crew were trying to deliver tons of food and other agricultural materials for the World Food Program, to be distributed among destitute Muslims in that Kenyan port city, and beyond.

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In said between 2009 and 2010, 25 out of the 174 young refugees (or 14%) who used the scheme would be regarded as destitute.

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Not a lot of gold--even the most bearish portfolio managers recommend putting only 10% of your money into commodities--but enough to give assurance that you won't be destitute if the U.S. economy falls over dead.

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If the villages in this country tend to be poor, yet simultaneously rustic, charming and beautiful, the provincial towns are utterly destitute appalling reminders of the complete and utter collapse of the former Soviet Union.

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