And it faces this momentous transition in a time of national unrest and economic privation.

Despite growing up in the 1930s, his family did not experience much of the economic privations common in other parts of the country.

For many Haitians, especially the urban poor who suffered both political and economic privations during the military dictatorship, that is enough for the moment.

Those changes are important, and not just as an answer to humanitarian complaints about unnecessary economic privations imposed on Iraqi civilians.

Women in Kenya still suffer harsh economic privation, educational disparity, job discrimination.

Due to inadequate supervision and economic privation, imperial troops in the capital region to protect the throne would often turn to brigandage.

American officials had also hoped that economic privations and the prospect of winter might lead to a new wave of public unrest against the government.

His regime held power during the dreadful economic privation of the early Depression years in Saskatchewan.

In interviews they have said they left because of increasing political repression and economic privation.

The question put Mr. Bush on the defensive by making him look unfeeling in his reaction to economic privation.