| Asianet, whose stringer he used to be, has pretty much dumped him, and his legal expenses have reduced him to penury. |
| Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury. |
| Instead he is modeling himself on the party's alchemist who rebuilt the welfare state and ran a budget surplus in a time of penury. |
| Keeping horses at livery and going out hunting are expensive pursuits that are totally unaffordable by those claiming penury status. |
| But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients. |
| They realize that their reduction to penury is due to discrimination against their blackness on the part of whites and blacks alike. |
