The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood.

Baldassarre Cossa was born on the island of Procida or Ischia in the Kingdom of Naples into a noble but impoverished family.

Attending three of them in rapid succession, the impoverished Capp was thrown out of each for nonpayment of tuition — the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Designers Art School in Boston — the latter before launching his amazing career.

Bellarmine was born at Montepulciano, the son of noble, albeit impoverished, parents, Vincenzo Bellarmino and his wife Cinzia Cervini, who was sister of Pope Marcellus II.

A civil war was imposed on impoverished Cambodia that displaced 600, 000 Cambodians to refugee camps along the border between Thailand and Cambodia.

Confucius ' favorite disciple was Yan Hui, most probably one of the most impoverished one of them all.

In the 19th century, as Ireland was facing the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ), crochet lace work was introduced as a form of famine relief ( the production of crocheted lace being an alternative way of making money for impoverished Irish workers ).

The term wino was coined during this period to describe impoverished people who drank these wines solely for their inebriating effect.

As a congressman, LaGuardia was a tireless and vocal champion of progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U. S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families.

As a young child, Brown and his family lived in extreme poverty in nearby Elko, South Carolina, which at the time was an impoverished town in Barnwell County.

In 1841 conflicts between the impoverished Druze and the Maronite Christians exploded: There was a massacre of Christians by the Druze at Deir al Qamar, and the fleeing survivors were slaughtered by Ottoman regulars.

In Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Latveria was presented as an impoverished dictatorial theocracy, under " his holiness " President Victor von Doom ( wearing his traditional Marvel armour and cloak ).

Her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a member of a relatively impoverished princely cadet line.

In 1505, Michele was murdered and Niccolo, his two siblings, and his mother were impoverished.

The result was dire poverty in Paraguay and an increasingly impoverished empire.

However, he was still a descendant of an Italian noble family, from a secondary and impoverished branch.

Detectives reported that the Mulcahy family was impoverished.

While Bennett was, and is still, often criticized for lack of compassion for the impoverished masses, he stayed up through many nights reading and responding to personal letters from ordinary citizens asking for his help, and often dipped into his personal fortune to send a five-dollar bill to a starving family.

One of his mentors during those early years was a fellow telegrapher and inventor named Franklin Leonard Pope, who allowed the impoverished youth to live and work in the basement of his Elizabeth, New Jersey home.

The same year, Malory was elected to Parliament, serving at Westminster as knight of the shire for Warwickshire for the rest of 1443, and being appointed to a Royal Commission charged with the distribution of monies to impoverished towns in Warwickshire.

Marshall's wife was heavily involved in charitable activities in Washington and spent considerable time working at the Diet Kitchen Welfare Center providing free meals to impoverished children.

Meanwhile back in the north Sweden was invaded by its enemies ; Charles returned home in 1714, too late to restore his lost empire and impoverished homeland ; he died in 1718.

The low cost of the tin whistle, or jive flute, made it an attractive instrument in the impoverished, apartheid-era townships ; the Hohner tin whistle was especially popular in kwela performance.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Olgivanna -- in her country the nickname was a respectful form of address -- was not only attractive but shrewd, durable, sensible, and smart.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

Trevelyan's Liberalism was above all a liberalism of the spirit, a deep feeling of communion with men fighting for country and for liberty.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

Ultimately Fosdick's `` Fit to fight '' slogan swept across the country and every well-known red-light district in the United States was closed, a hundred and ten of them.