reduced circumstances

Scotty wept over his poor old mother in Edinburgh--a lady, he insisted, gently born-- who was in reduced circumstances, who had pinched herself to pay the lump sum to the ship-owners for his apprenticeship, whose sacrificing dream had been to see him a merchantman officer and a gentleman, and who was heartbroken because he had deserted his ship in Australia and joined another as a common sailor before the mast.

It was the cumulative effect of having a mother in reduced circumstances and grumbling about it, of being compelled to work and grumbling about that, and of achieving in her work only a semi-success and grumbling about that also, that--backed by her looks--enabled Claire to give quite a number of people, and Bill Dawlish in particular, the impression that she was a modern martyr, only sustained by her indomitable courage.

Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in; whereupon a dirty, slipshod girl in black cotton stockings, who might have passed for the neglected daughter of a superannuated dustman in very reduced circumstances, thrust in her head, and said--

There he imbibed his first love of adventure, listening, as be says in 'Redburn,' while his father 'of winter evenings, by the well-remembered sea-coal fire in old Greenwich Street, used to tell my brother and me of the monstrous waves at sea, mountain high, of the masts bending like twigs, and all about Havre and Liverpool.' The death of his father in reduced circumstances necessitated the removal of his mother and the family of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River.

By building more sustainable communities in the country, we hope to empower those in reduced circumstances to be able to transform their lives," Ang said.

'By building more sustainable communities in the country we hope to empower those in reduced circumstances to be able to transform their lives.'

In spite of its reduced circumstances, it is still sure to be a gas-guzzling paradise.

This includes an appallingly snobbish father (Matthew Atkins), who simply refuses to acknowledge his reduced circumstances, a pair of self-obsessed siblings (Indigo Griffiths and Lucinda Turner), and a classic ne'er-do-well cousin and suitor (also played by Ryall) who has more than a hint of Frank Thorntonmeets-Mr Wickham about him.

Sunderland have dropped from the top-flight to the third tier in consecutive seasons and must now reshape their squad according to their new reduced circumstances.

Sunderland have dropped from the top-flight to the third tier in consecutive seasons, and must now reshape their squad according to their new reduced circumstances.

But at the same time, Sunderland's reduced circumstances have opened the door for Honeyman to achieve his lifetime ambition of becoming a first-team regular on Wearside.

Ms Haley is angry that disabled people were being "dismissed and lied about", because "through no fault of our own we have found ourselves in unfortunate and reduced circumstances.

In the midst of trying to do the right thing by my children, juggle work commitments, get accustomed to the reduced circumstances of lifestyle and accommodation, it would have been easy to let my self-worth slide off into oblivion.

To address the question of how the church can play a faithful role in the public square in the face of reduced circumstances, the synod invited William T.

Reportedly, Euzcan family were living in a one-roomed shanty house in reduced circumstances. The family of five -- Father Murat Euzcan, mother Leyla Euzcan and their kids Azat, Mehmet and GE-listan - were using part of their single room as kitchen and another part as bedroom.