To strike any person, even in the most abject condition, was a thing in a manner unknown and would be highly disgraceful.

"The sufferings attested his human flesh," he continued, "the contumely proved its abject condition."

Provisions were sparse, and even today the patients live in abject conditions.

Formerly the lepers of Minicoy were banished to this island where they lived in abject conditions.

She remembers a woman she saw in a factory there, working under the most abject conditions.

Sometimes he used city shelters, but abject conditions and violence made them less appealing than the streets.

Today, nearly 80 percent of Haitians live in abject conditions.

Many Roma in the candidate Member States live in extremely abject conditions.

These are an estimated 175,000 to 190,000 refugees and displaced persons, and they are living in truly abject conditions.

Most of his fellow-sufferers avoid frank discussions about the abject conditions in their home country.